The Kite Runner 2

Amir notices two different faces that Hassan seems to have; one is the smiling face he shares everyday and the other would appear for "a fraction of a moment, long enough to leave [Amir] with an unsettling feeling that maybe [he'd] seen it some place before." Hosseini seems to be implying that Amir knows someone else with this face that Hassan seems to have a similarity to and a reasonable explanation would be that their "brotherhood" is an actual brotherhood! Hassan and Amir are related! Dang father.

I discovered by re-reading some notes that I jotted down from the first section we were assigned to that Hassan sacrificing himself for Amir and Amir sacrificing Hassan for Baba was foreshadowed on page 11! Amir is saying "Hassan and I fed from the same breast. We took our first steps on the same lawn in the same yard. And, under the same roof, we spoke our first words. Mine was Baba. His was Amir. My name." He even tells the reader "I think the foundation for what happened in the winter of 1975-and all that followed- was already laid in those first words."

On the day that Hassan was raped, Amir described the streets as "[glistening] with fresh snow and the sky was blameless blue." The snow represents Hassan's purity and innocence along with the "blameless blue" kite because Hassan always take the blame for Amir.