the kite runner #2

This week for outside reading I continued to read The Kite Runner. Rahim Khan starts telling Khaled all about what happened with Hassan. Rahim Khan had gone to find Hassan because he was lonely and for many other reasons. Hassan is very sad when he learns Baba has died. At first Hassan didn't want to leave his new home but eventually he agreed that he would. He and his pregnant wife went back to the house with Rahim Khan. They would not move in, they insisted on living in the shack in the backyard and they would do all the work for Rahim Khan. Hassans wife gave birth to a stillborn baby girl and they burried her in the backyard. They were devestated. Then his wife, Farzana becomes pregnant again. One day an old lady shows up starving and dirty. They soon learn it is Hassans mother. They nurse her back to health and she moves in to an empty bedroom. Farzana has a son and him and his mother become very close. She lived until he was four and then she didn't wake up one morning. Hassan taught his son how to fight kites just as he had when he was a kid, but kite tournaments are soon banned too. A few years later Hazaras are massacred in Mazar-i-Sharif. It hits Khaled all he has done. All the times he didn't stand up for Ali and Hassan. Khaled asks if Hassan is still in the house and Rahim Khan gives him a letter from him. There's also a picture. He finishes reading and then asks how Hassan is. Rahim Khan goes on to tell him about some officers that went to the house and thought it was too big for Hazaras even though Hassan said he was just looking after it. They say they will move in and Hassan protests, so they take him to the street, order him to kneel, and shoot him in the head. Farzana runs out screaming and they shoot her too. Rahim Khan wants Khaled to go find Hassan's son, Sohrab, and bring him back to him. Khaled says he can't, it's Rahim Khan's dying wish. Khaled still won't. Then Rahim Khan tells him Ali isn't Hassan's father. He realizes Baba was and they were half brothers. Khaled gets very mad that no one told him the truth. He storms out of the apartment. He realizes all the signs he should have a long time ago. He also realizes he needs to go find Sohrab to make things better after all the bad he has done.