The Kite Runner 6

Hosseini uses vivid diction to describe how wrecked the memorable "Pashtunistan Square" has become.A kabob restaurant that Baba used to take Amir to when he has younger "...was still standing, but its doors were padlocked, the windows shattered, and the letters K and R missing from it's name. [He] saw a dead body near the restaurant...the clothes he'd worn on the last day of his life shredded, bloody. Hardly anyone seemed to notice him...The front steps had crumbled. Like so much else in Kabul, [Amir's] father's house was the picture of fallen splendor."

On page 164, Amir has to see one more thing and finds the old cemetery and pomagranite tree are still on the hill he and Hassan would run up. "The carving [on the tree] had dulled, almost faded altogether, but it was still there." This symbolizes Amir's chance of becoming good again. The time he has is depleting and his chances are getting slim, but it is still possible. 

When Assif comes back into the story at the ball game, he tells the crowd that "We (talibans) are here today because of the will of Allah...We (Afghans) listen to what God says and we obey because we are nothing but humble, powerless creatures before God's greatness." Hosseini describes Assif as "The tall man" whose garments sparkled in the afternoon sun. "his arms spread like those of Jesus on the cross...he was wearing dark round sunglasses like the ones John Lennon wore." The reader also finds out in the next chapter that Assif has "..a prayer rug...nailed to one of the walls." So it is probably unused. This portrayed Assif as the biggest hypocrite of the time. He said he was doing the will of God but he wasn't dying for the people on the "cross" he apparently seemed to be on; Assif was having other people, sinners, die for him. He was wearing sparkling white garments and had the suns rays displaying them clearly so he could easily be mistaken as pure and "holy" but it is obvious, by his actions, that he is the opposite. This would make Assif the Anti-Christ figure.