Through flashback, Amir recalls the story told to him of Hassan’s birth. Recalling this memory, Amir makes aware that he and Hassan nursed from the same woman and describes the “ kinship that not even time could break” that they held. Later he goes on to share each of their first words, Amir’s being “Baba” and Hassan’s being “Amir”. A baby’s first word tends to be the one the child is most closely associated with, and through this, one can observe the person to whom each child would look up to. Amir goes on to spend his childhood simply trying to be good enough, trying to be the child Baba would be proud of. To him, nothing is of more importance than that of having Baba’s approval, even if in the process he gives up the biggest sacrifice to