The Complexity of Evil

     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.