Timid with Wit

Here is the second of three posts in one day. Just a little context here for this reading, it is approximately 15 minutes and 18 seconds in to the movie "Kite Runner", which is based off the novel by Khaled Hosseini. This part that is written is the dialogue from one of my favorite scenes in the movie.

Hassan: "What's the story about?"

Amir: "It's about a man who finds a magic cup and he learns that if he weeps into the cup his tears turn to pearls. He's very poor... you know? And at the end of the story, he's sitting on a mountain of pearls with a bloody knife in his hand and his dead wife in his arms." 

Hassan: "So he killed her?" 

Amir: "Yes, Hassan." 

Hassan: "So that he'd cry and get rich?" 

Amir: "Yes, you're very quick." 

*Pause* 

Amir: "What?" 

Hassan: "Nothing, Amir agha. Are you done with breakfast?"

Amir: "What?"

Hassan: "Will you permit me to ask a question about the story?"

Amir: "Of course."

Hassan: "Why did the man kill his wife?"

Amir: "Because each of his tears became a pearl."

Hassan: "Yes, but why couldn't he just smell an onion?"

Hassan is a servant for Amir's father. Both Hassan and Amir are very young I would guess somewhere around ten years old by their appearance in the movie.