Ali is Hassan's father.
A interesting thing is that Ali and Baba grew up togerther as childhood playmates as the narrator and Hassan.
Another interesting thing is "In none of his stories did Baba ever refer to Ali as his friend.", which is the same way Amir did. Though Amir spent most of the time playing with Hassan, he never thought of Hassan as friend.
Two paragraphs explained these curious things.
"Never mind any of those things. Because history isn't easy to overcome. Neither is religion. In the end, I was a Pashtun and he was a Hazara, I was Sunni and he was Shi'a, and nothing was ever going to change. Nothing."
"But we were kids who had learned to crawl together, and no history, ethnicity, society, or religion was going to change that either."
The rest part of chapter is about narrator's interest in writting. He often read stories to Hassan. Once he read a story which was made up by himself, resulting the highly praise by Hassan.
Amir was inspired to write stories to make his father proud. However, his father showed no interest in reading his work. His father's best friend read his story and sent him a letter which said that" The most impressive thing about your story is that is has irony." Amir at first was not familiar with the word"irony", but after he read his story to Hassan, then Hassan pointed out a obviously stupid mistake he made in story. The narrator suddenly understood IRONY. Amir was taught by Hassen who couldn't read and had never written a single word in his entire life.
The last sentence of this chapter is an aftertaste.
"Because suddenly Afghanistan changed forever."
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