The first chapter introduces Amir, his servant/friend Hassan, and their fathers who we discover later on in the reading are opposites of each other. When Amir's not in school him and Hassan cause trouble, like every boy does, and Hassan always seems to be the scapegoat. "Hassan never denied [Amir] anything..[but once] Hassan's father Ali [caught them, Hassan] never told that [it] was always [Amir's] idea." Hassan seems to sacrifice himself just to make sure Amir is happy. Could that make him a Christ figure?
Also the reader finds out that both Hassan and Amir's mother died so they fed from the same breast of a Hazarian woman and "there [is] a brotherhood between people who [feed] from the same breast, a kinship that not even time [can] break." This foreshadows the mistake that Amir made in the winter of 1975 that he has to return to Afghanistan to fix. I think this proves they will become friends once again and live happily ever after.
On page 5 in the top line of the first paragraph Hosseini uses Asyndeton while describing Baba's favorite things: "politics, business, soccer."
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