Blog #4

So the wedding traditional ceremonies began. Even though Amir is not my favorite I feel bad that he had to skip out on a lot of traditional wedding events because he wanted to make sure Baba was alive and well for the actual wedding. I feel sorry for the couple because it seems that Baba’s situation is unwillingly overshadowing the wedding. Amir’s wife was a good catch for him. She was noble, caring, and loved Amir dearly. A month after the wedding Baba passed away in his sleep. Reading this was extremely hard for me. I connected with Amir. I felt his pain. I no longer dislike Amir. Years later months after the Soviets withdrew from Afghanistan Amir finished his first navel. I respect that even though many people didn’t understand or like the idea of him becoming a writer he still went for it anyways. In the year of 1989 war between Afghans, the Mujahedin, against the Soviet puppet government of Najibullah raged on. Therefore Afghans kept flocking into Pakistan. That was the year that the cold war ended, the year the Berlin Wall came down. It was the year of Tiananmen Square. With all that happening in Afghanistan, in America Soraya and Amir were unsuccessfully trying to have a baby. June 2001 Amir gets a rare call from his old long lost friend Rahim Klan asking him to return to Pakistan before he to dies. With everything that was going on around that area I’m surprised he agreed to go.
A traditional Afghan wedding starts at 6 pm. At 8:30 a special song called Ahesta Boro is sang, meaning walk slowly, which indicates the arrival of the bride and groom. But before the song a thing called nikah is done. The bride and groom are covered in a much decorated shawl where the groom will look into the eyes of his bride in a mirror and will read a prayer from the holy Quran. Henna is also preformed, along with other afghan traditions like meal and attan.