2. epiphany (247): a sudden, intuitive perception of or insight into the reality or essential meaning of something, usually initiated by some simple or commonplace experience. (i love this word and especially this definition too! :D )
FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE: 1. "with a scream trapped in my throat" (210). This is a personification, because a scream, an object, cannot be trapped, just as a person can. It is giving human-like characteristics to a non-human object.
2. "Rrrriiiip" (242). This is an onomatopoeia, because it isn't a real word. It's a noise being made into a word that sounds like the sound it would have made in the story.
3. "He said it fondly, like a man telling of a great party he'd attended" (243). This is a simile because it uses the word "like" to describe something and compare two objects.
QUOTE: "His name rose from the deep and I didn't want to say it, as if uttering it might conjure him. But he was already here, sitting less than ten feet from me, after all these years. His name escaped my lips: 'Assef' (246). This quote is very significant, because it shows how Amir felt when he saw the boy he knew in his childhood. He was the boy who raped Hassan and Amir did nothing about it. Now, Amir had to ask Assef to give Hassan's son Sohrab back to Amir so that he could give him a good home with a nice couple. From this moment, the reader can tell that this is going to become a very interesting ending to the book. It is going to be so incredibly suspenseful.
THEME: The theme of this section is that you have to never lose your dreams, and never give up because if you do give up, you never know when things will turn around.
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