Betrayal

Question 1

“I never thought of Hassan and me as friends.

Answer 1

In the end, I was a Pashtun and he was a Hazara, I was Sunni and he was Shi’a, and nothing was ever going to change that.”

Question 2

“But before you sacrifice yourself for him,

Answer 2

think about this: Would he do the same for you? […] to him, you’re nothing but an ugly pet…”

Question 3

“Maybe Hassan was the price I had to pay,

Answer 3

the lamb I had to slay, to win Baba. Was it a fair price? The answer floated to my conscious mind before I could thwart it: He was just a Hazara, wasn’t he?”

Question 4

“As it turned out, Baba and I were more alike than I’d ever known.

Answer 4

We had both betrayed the people who would have given their lives for us.”

Question 5

“We had both sinned and betrayed.

Answer 5

But Baba had found a way to create good out of his remorse. What had I done, other than take my guilt out on the very same people I had betrayed, and then try to forget it all?”