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1.Some new thoughts I had about the book included everyone's different opinion about what Amir should have done in chapter 7. Some people said that he should have gone and gotten Baba or Ali and others thought that Amir should have stepped in himself. 2. One thing that I did not get the chance to say was what I thought about how if Amir had stepped into the situation himself the same thing could've happened to him. Someone like Baba is intimidating and could have scared off Assef but Amir would not have had any power over Assef and things could have gone poorly. 3. Some questions that I am grappling with are why Hassan chose to take the blame for something that Amir did. When Amir put his money under Hassan's bed and made it look like

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