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Amir is a young boy who is born and raised in Afghanistan. He soon moves to America learning and realizing things about his life. Now, in his adulthood Amir goes back to his childhood. Moving back to Afghanistan, going back to all those memories he once tried to bury.

I think that one of the big idea that the author tried to show was friendship. Amir's father's servant's son: Hassan, was Amir's best friend, they were so close that they were like brothers. Hassan grew up willing to do anything for Amir. Amir betrayed his best friend, standing by and watching Hassan get raped by an enemy- Assef. And doing nothing about it.
I think of all the things, the pomegranate tree shows the friendship between these two very different friends. The pomegranate tree that Amir returns to in his adulthood bearing all the memories he once shared with Hassan. Carved on the tree says, "Amir and Hassan the Sultans of Kabul." It reminds Amir of that day when he told Hassan to hit him with a pomegranate from the tree, and instead HAssan hits himself on the head with that fruit.

Hassan is a Shi'a Muslim and a Hazara. It's kind of confusing for me to really get what that's supposed to mean, and it took me sometime to really figure it out. Assef is a bully who has bullied Amir and Hassan a number of times. What he wants is to make Afghanistan different, in a way that he thinks will benefit everyone. Assef pretty much despises all Hazara's and he hates Amir and Amir's father for caring for Hazara's. It shows the ethnic diversity in Afghanistan. Being both Shi'a and Sunni Muslim is both under the names of Muslim but there's so much hate going on between them in the book. Showing the differences between the same religious group.