The Kite Runner 7

The first time Sohrab looks at Amir is when their parents are brought to the subject. Sohrab asks if Amir misses his parents and "[rests] his cheek on [Amir's] knee, looking up at [him]." Then he continues to grow closer to Amir when he "[looks] straight at [him]..." and later "he let [Amir] draw him to [his side] and rested his head on [Amir's] chest" while he sobbed." Amir says, "he was looking at me, really looking at me, for the very first time...his hand squeezed mine back." This is very important to the story because it shows how strong of a bond these two will have eventually. They have the same emotional drain because of Hassan's death and are chiseled into each other's lives by family relation. All they have now  to save that connection to each other (Hassan) is one another.

When Amir is in the hospital and decides to pray he asks a nurse "which way is west" and when the police officer points him in the right direction, he "[throws his] makeshift jai-namaz, prayer rug, on the floor and [he gets] on [his] knees, [lowers his] forehead to the ground, [his] tears soaking thought the sheet. [He] bows to the west." The reason he bows to the west is because that's, more than likely, where Mecca is  Muslims always bow facing the Black Box which is inside the Mosque in Mecca (one of the holiest places in Islam).

The sheets that Soraya picks out for Sohrab's bed foreshadows the kites at the end of the story. "The sheets showed brightly colored kites flying in indigo blue skies...Soraya pulled on my sleeve. 'Amir look!' She was pointing to the sky. A half-dozen kites were flying high, speckles of bright yellow, red, and green against the gray sky." Then when Amir runs the kite for Sohrab and says "For you, a thousand times over." He is made good again. He is pure once again and he becomes like Hassan with just those simple words. He is also like Hassan because he ran. "I ran. A grown man running with a swarm of screaming children. But I didn't care. I ran with the wind blowing in my face, and a smile as wide as the Valley of Panjsher on my lips. I ran." He if finally free!