I’ve chosen the scene where Assef sexually assaults Hassan, and Amir stands by and watches. I’ve chosen this scene because out of every scene in the book I feel as if the assault scene is the most impactful for the rest of the book. I felt like changing this scene would completely change the story, and it would’ve been led in a totally different direction for the book. Pg 71-77 is where the scene takes place. I heard the voices again, louder this time than the last, coming from one of the alleys. I crept closer to the mouth of that alley. Held my breath. Peeked slowly around the corner. Hassan was standing at the blind end of the alley in a defensive stance towards...Assef. My heart dropped, I turned back and put my back against the material the building was made of. For the longest time, silence, just breathing, my breathing, my heartbeat, everything that made me human was …show more content…
I looked at the fruit, and it was rather squishy, and then I looked at Hassan. After a while he finally noticed at looked at me and asked why I was staring at him, I looked back at the fruit and threw it at Hassan’s face. It was funny to see it explode on his face, “what was that for?” he said rather quietly which surprised me, so I grabbed another pomegranate from the tree and handed it to him, “here throw it at me” “what? No.” “why not?” “because...I..Just can’t” “c’mon Hassan throw the pomegranate already”. Hassan stared at the fruit and looked back at me and hesitantly winded his arm up and threw the pomegranate at me. We both laughed as the fruits juices flowed out of my hair onto my face, we both started picking up the pomegranates and threw them at each other until it got dark and we got so tired we couldn’t do it anymore. Baba wasn’t very happy about our clothes that night, but Ali thought we looked