When Amir is finally in a position to confront Assef again, he does. It doesn't end with him winning some kind of heroic fight, Assef beats him to a pulp, but it is in this act of defiance the very decision he makes to actually take a stand that he finally finds comfort. Of course he does it to try and save Sohrab, Hassan's son, and symbolically it represents his opportunity to redeem himself from his unwillingness to stand up for his friend so long ago.
Once he has done this, he feels that he has lived up to his father's great legacy and he also learns soon thereafter that his father was harder on him because he felt guilty for not being able to admit that Hassan was also his son.
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