Why do you think he avoided using the first person when he talked about himself?

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in afghanistan, yelda, the first month of jadi is the longest night of the year. amir says that yelda was the starless night tormented lovers kept vigil enduring the endless dark, waiting for the sun to raise and bring with it their loved. amir says he became a yelda when he met soraya in america.

d.) then bernice winced as marjorie tossed her own hair over her shoulders and began to twist it slowly into two long blond braids until in her cream-colored negligée she looked like a delicate painting of some saxon princess. fascinated, bernice watched the braids grow. heavy and luxurious they were, moving under the supple fingers like restive snakes—and to bernice remained this relic and the curling iron and a to-morrow full of eyes.