Chapter 18 gives readers further insight into the issue.
After Amir leaves Rahim Khan's apartment, he angrily processes the information he's just
learned and reflects on his past life from a different
perspective:
The questions kept coming at me: How had Baba
brought himself to look Ali in the eye? How had Ali lived in that house, day in and day
out, knowing he had been dishonored by his master in the single worst way an Afghan man
can be dishonored?
Though
Rahim Khan does not directly tell Amir that Ali knew Hassan wasn't his son, this passage
shows that, in retrospect, Amir believes that Ali must have known. While Amir is
completely shocked by the news that Hassan was his brother, he is able to see, in
retrospect, that many signs pointed that way his entire childhood. (In Chapter 18, Amir
recalls Baba's insistence that he'd never get new servants, his quest to have Hassan's
harelip fixed, and the way in which Baba "had wept, wept, when Ali
announced he and Hassan were leaving us.")
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