Amir bewedded to an Afghan woman, Soraya, but before marriage there was concern about her past. When she was younger she ran away with a man without her father's approval, which to the afghan culture was just unheard of. Soraya came back but she had brought shame to her parents for what she had done. Baba says to Amir “It may be unfair, but what happened in a few days, sometimes even in a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime…” (Hosseini 142). Baba mentioned this to Amir about his wife Soraya but it’s ironic based on Amir and the issue he faced in the alley. After Baba's death a close family friend, Rahim Khan breaks the news to Amir that Hassan was actually Amir’s half-brother over a phone call. Furthermore before that