Sohrab's Guilt

This image represents the surfacing remorse Sohrab has felt since the fight with Assef. This overarching guilt was made when he injured Assef in the last few moments of the fight when his slingshot took one of Assef's eyes. Since then, his guilt has taken over his entire mood, believing that he had sinned because of the way that he hurt Assef, even if it was justified. The baby flower represents Sohrab, young and just beginning his life. It shows how something that was once so beautiful is now wilting and falling apart; a recollection of its former past. A flower that blooms compares to the amount of confidence Sohrab once had in himself, whereas now the continuous, constant guilt that he has sinned results in the "falling of petals" shown below. Almost as if he were looking down at his hands like he had done so many times in the book (which represented his sadness), the flower seems to hang over in dismay just like Sohrab.