In the last section of the novel, Amir travels
back to his homeland to search for Hassan’s son. While searching at the
orphanage, Amir talks with the orphanage operator and experiences yet again
another immoral effect of war.
The orphanage worker has spent his life savings
on the orphanage to provide for the children and support them in all possible
ways. A member of the Taliban often comes to the orphanage with money for the
orphanage leader in exchange for a girl. The leader accepts this money and lets
the man take this girl, and only sometimes she comes back. Amir does not agree with
this because he is selling children for money. This is an example of human
trafficking. But the leader of the orphanage said, “ If I deny him one child,
he takes ten. So I let him take one and leave the judging to Allah. I swallow
my pride and take his goddamn filthy, dirty money. Then I go to the bazaar and
buy food for the children” (page 270). This is perhaps one of the greatest
examples of evil I have seen in this entire book. It is cruel to sell a child
for money. But in this case, this form of evil is used for good. This is the
only way the leader of the orphanage can provide for the children by using one
person as a scapegoat. This man does whatever he can to do for the children’s well-being
and he still has faith in Allah. This displays the complexity of evil. But, all
in all, this goes to show that wherever there is evil, love will shine through
and wherever there is love, evil and hate will shine also. Although at times,
one may shine brighter it is up to God, Allah, or whomever your god is to
decipher evil occurrences in the world.
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