They'll have to call you One-Eyed Assef
Hosseini is using foreshadowing to highlight this scene in the book. Later in the book when Hassan's son shoots Assef in the eye with a slingshot, the reader remember this scene and think "I should have seen this coming." Foreshadowing also creates a sense of foreboding because the reader knows that something is going to happen, but not what.
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I like this because the I never realized this use of foreshadowing when reading the book myself. Did you consider that using foreshadowing might ruin the book because you get to know what will happen. I guess you are right by saying that it also creates a sense of foreboding as you don't really know what will happen, just that it might.
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Your analysis on these lines was very insightful because it ities together different events in the story and exposes Hosseini's technique of allusion.
Liam M.