A Layer Of Reality : What Happened?

Baba asked Hassan, “ Did you steal that money? Did you steal Amir’s watch, Hassan?” Hassan replied, “Yes.”(Hosseini 111) Even though Hassan did not steal those items from Amir, he still took the blame to protect Amir from the consequences. Hassan had told Ali about what happened to him, and on top of this incident, Ali decided that they would leave Kabul.

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*This is said by Ali to Baba. He is telling Baba it is impossible for Hassan to live around Amir, even though Baba doesn’t know what happened. Ali and Hassan have enough pride to live away from someone who doesn’t want them around in case would be Amir. This is important because Ali was like a brother to Baba and their lives will change without them around, to Baba more than to Amir.

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When Amir arrives to Afghanistan he tries to get Hassan’s son “Sohrab”, he sees Assef has control of the boy. Amir tries to pay Assef for the boy, Assef refuses and pluck a red grape . Put it, lovingly, in Sohrab 's mouth and says "So if I need money, i 'll have them wire it to me" (Hosseini 282). Assef is now with Taliban and he tells Amir about his game “Every night the commandant, would

Hassan the servant, as we learn is an honest and faithful character all throughout the novel, yet his ethnicity and illiteracy allow him to become a target, to enemies and even Amir. “After all, what use did a servant have for the written word” (Hosseini 28). Amir uses Hassan’s ignorance to make a fool of him, often lying to Hassan about a words true meaning, or making fun of Hassan when he didn’t understand certain words. “My favorite part of reading to Hassan was when we came across a big word that he didn’t know. I’d tease him, expose his ignorance.” (Hosseini 28). This was one way the author presented betrayal in the novel. Hassan, who believes the words of Amir is being teased without knowing it. After all, Hassan has no reason to question the friendship of himself and Amir, just yet.

Baba tells Amir that the teacher is just jealous that Iran was a rising power in Asia. However this quote applies to other parts of the book as well. Once Hassan is raped Amir pretends not to know what happened because it is easier for him yet Hassan knows Amir watched.

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This irony demonstrates the separation of Amir’s body and mind, specifically how emotionally he was relieved but physically he was torn apart. Additionally, he stated “everything hurt. But I was laughing and laughing. And the harder I laughed the harder he kicked” (Hosseini 289). This irony further demonstrated that Amir’s mind was elsewhere, which was clarified when he states “for the first time since Winter of 1975 I felt at peace […] I’ve been looking forward to this […] my body was broken[…] but I felt healed” (Hosseini 289), demonstrating that after over a decade, Amir finally felt the relief of his guilt. The author tied up the importance of his rhetorical devices with some lasting imagery, the scene shot to the croak of Sohrab's voice stating “Bas,” or stop, another irony that such a little boy began to intimidate a man as malevolent as Assef. He went on to “cock his hand […] holding his slingshot […] pointed at Assef’s face” (Hosseini 290) and then he let go, “blood oozed between his fingers” (Hosseini

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Amir is often threatened by Hassan which Hassan is oblivious to, resulting in Amir feeling jealous and misusing his authority over Hassan, ‘though I stopped reading those when I saw he was far better at solving them than I was’, implying that Amir can’t handle an ‘inferior’ person exceeding him in any way. This jealousy develops into abuse towards Hassan when Amir uses his intelligence to make a fool of Hassan who is illiterate, ‘”When it comes to words, Hassan is an imbecile.” “Aaah” he said, nodding’. However, Amir would then feel ‘guilty’ for this and would give him an old shirt or a broken toy, ‘I would tell myself that was amends enough for a harmless prank’ displaying Amir’s malicious behaviour towards Hassan.

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