Compare And Contrast Amir And Hassan

Hassan is the son of Amir and Baba's lifelong servant, Ali. He has a face like a Chinese doll and a flat nose. His eyes are green and slating, and he has a cleft lip. Though he is Amir's servant Hassen sees Amir as his best friend and spend all his time off together with him. Seeing that he and his father is Hazards their staus in the Afghan community is low, but despite that, they seem to accept and love their lives the way it is.

One of the primary characters that shaped Amir was his best friend and servant, Hassan. They were literally together as infants and both were motherless shortly after their births. As the boys grow up together you can see who Hassan is as a person, amazing friend, loyal, forgiving, and a good – natured child. Hassan is brought up learning that it

The first way Amir’s maturity can be seen in result of Hassan’s rape is the way that he sees the world and the people in it, changes over the course of the book. In the beginning of the book Amir has very particular ideas about people and their social status. At the time of Hassan's rape, he sees Hazara's as subservient to the Pashtuns. Even though he and Hassan had been raised together and have a special relationship, he does not view him as his friend, and even admits to not seeing him as one. One day while Hassan and Amir are playing together, Assef and some other boys come and begin to taunt the two boys. Assef asks, “ "How can you call him your friend?" ” Refering to Hassan, Amir replies, “ "But he's not my friend! … He's my servant." ” (Hosseini

Amir has a conflicting relationship with Hassan not only because he is always in a position of servitude towards Amir, as a Hazara and as his station, but because of his breeding (when Amir thought his father was Ali.) However, Amir does not understand why his Baba still treats Hassan the way he

1. It is very evident that Hassan and Amir have a complex relationship, that is not always compromising this could be because Hassan is a Hazara and Amir is a Pashtun, Amir having lived a life which he was always smothered with expectations of being the best and unsurpassed Amir and Hassan relationship suffers because of Amir’s need to be the best and reflects a side of Amir portraying his superiority complex. Amir doesn't see Hassan as a loyal friend, but sees him as a dumb Hazara who will never accomplish anything in life, for example we see Amir snap back with a nasty thought, after Hassan gave his input for an alternate ending for the story when the man killed his wife for wealth “A voice, cold and dark, suddenly whispered in my ear,

Finally, Hassan`s innocence, and naïve personality still showed loyalty to Amir. After Hassan was raped in the alleyway while Amir by the bystander, Hassan tried to keep a “normal” relationship with him. However, Amir was guilty for not helping Hassan, hoping he would receive one back when he refused to do

Later in the book Baba had passed away and Amir and Soraya had begun to try to start a family. After a year they went to go see a doctor and found out they had unexplained infertility. Later Amir heard from an old family friend Rahim Khan. He said Amir should come back to essentially get rid of his

Since Amir's mother was dead of giving birth to him, Baba, his dad, blame him for losing her. This affect Amir to have a bad childhood, which caused him to do a lot of the things that he later regard in the story. 2. How does Hassan view Amir in the novel? And how does (young)

The narrator describes the relationship between Amir and Hassan. It reveals that even though Hassan is a Hasara and Amir’s servant, they are still like brothers to each other. The fact that Hassan’s first word was Amir also suggests that he is very important and special to him. In addition, the boys’ first words foreshadows the event that happened in the winter of 1975 that has haunted Amir for years. Maybe Hassan took the blame for something Amir did, and it ruined his life forever. It’s also possible that whatever Amir did was to impress his father, but his plan went awry and Hassan received the consequences.

When this horrific event occurs, Amir chooses not to interfere. From that point on, he is clouded with questions regarding Hassan and is unable to escape his shame even when he moves to America, gets married, or launches a successful writing career. Amir’s

Amir even says himself, “‘And, under the same roof, we spoke our first words. Mine was Baba. His was Amir. My name. Looking back on it now, I think the foundation for what happened in the winter of 1975-and all that followed-was already laid in those first words’” (11). Hassan’s death even after years of not seeing Amir, is still in service of him. Hassan dies protecting Amir’s home in the hopes that Amir will come back to him. Amir, on the other hand, receives his own version of his dad’s love, and after coming to terms with the mistakes that he made as a child, adopts Hassan’s son with the hope that he can right his wrongs, and make up for his mistakes with

Amir's entire life had been haunted by what he saw happen to Hassan. Although he was a child at the time, he couldn't accept his shortcoming during a time of need. He was jealous of his father for being able to stand up for himself and others and Hassan's undying loyalty to him. He developed a pattern of behavior - of covering up his mistakes and hiding his past – that he could not rid himself of until he suffered like Hassan did. He made it up to Hassan by saving his son, and he made it up to himself by suffering the way he

Although Amir and Hassan are raised in the same household, they live in different worlds. Elaborate on this statement, living example from the text.

A quote from the novel which depicts, although isn’t mentioned in the film, the friendship of Amir and Hassan “we spoke our first words. Mine was Baba. His was Amir”. Amir’s guilt, from the rape scene, towards Hassan is shown perfectly in the film through body language as well as the actual storyline.

“The relationship between Amir and Hassan. It’s so different from any relationship I’ve experienced. Amir and Hassan are as closeas a servant and master can be, yet Amir acts like Hassan, a Hazara, is beneath him. Amir never learns to assert himself against anyone else because Hassan always defends him. I think these factors play into his childhood cowardice of sacrificing Hassan. Hassan however remains loyal, forgiving, and good natured,” replied Jack. “So what do you think of their friendship?”