Baba forgave Hassan from “taking them” but Ali said that since that happened they had to leave. A war broke out in Afghanistan and Baba and Amir had left with others to come to America. Amir had gotten married out there and wrote poetry. 30 to 40 years later, he returned to Afghanistan to see a dying friend, Rahim Khan, and redeem himself of his guilt for Hassan.His friend had told him after all these years that Hassan was his half-brother. When he had asked where Hassan was, his friend told Amir it is too late because Hassan was shot and killed by the Taliban but Hassan had a son. So Amir is out to find Hassan’s son.On the journey to find the son,he stopped to rest in a friend’s house and when he told him his story of his journey, it was hard and painful for him to tell them all, “‘He was my half brother’” (Hosseini 237). The scene in which Amir is telling Wahid about his quest to find Hassan’s son in Khaled Hosseini’s novel, The Kite Runner, is important because Hosseini uses it to establish lies are obstacles that harm one's conscious by making them not able to communicate with everyone through Amir’s constant guilt about what he let happen to Hassan the night he was