How Does Amir Show Loyalty In The Kite Runner

“ Assef unbuttoned his winter coat,took it off,folded it slowly.--- I opened my mouth, almost said something .Almost.The rest of my life might have turned out differently if I had.But I didn’t. I just watched.” When witnessing first hand Hasan get rape Amir decides to ultimately be a bystander. Amir comes from the ethnic group of Pashtun and Hassan comes from the ethnic group of Hazara they are both viewed and treated very differently due to their economical stance.Being from two different social classes Amir decides to be a bystander due to the fact that he fears getting hurt, he wants to get Baba’s approval and the way he wants to be viewed by others.

Amir’s life in America is tainted by his guilt which continues to grow as he matures because he realizes all the hurtful things he did to Hassan in his youth; he knows that confessing to his wrongdoings is the only way to mitigate his shame but is still too cowardly to do so. Even a milestone as important as high school graduation is clouded for Amir by the memory of Hassan when Baba expresses that “[he] wish[es] Hassan had been with [them]” (133). Amir is immediately put on edge because, despite pretending everything is okay, his remorse is constantly gnawing at the back of his mind. Had Amir confronted his mistake as soon as it happened, he would not still be dealing with the repercussions so many years laters. Baba, however, is not the only

Baba is one of the few muslims in Afghanistan that believes there is only one sin, theft. He states to Amir with a great sense of sterness, ''When you kill a man, you steal a life . . . [you] steal his wife's right to a husband, rob his children of a father. When you tell a lie, you steal someone's right to the truth. When you cheat, you steal the right to fairness” (18). Although Baba tries to teach this lesson to Amir, he himself is a thief; he stole the “right to the truth” by retaining the truth of Hassan (18). Along with Baba’s betrayal to his son, he also betrays his beloved servants, Ali and Hassan through adultery. Sanaubar, Hassan's mother was potentially driven away by guilt; leaving Hassan without a mother and Ali without a wife.

Amir commits a serious act of betrayal against Hassan during his childhood, one that affects Amir’s decisions

While Amir portrays the redemption in the novel, the character description of Assef, the town bully, displays Hosseini’s thoughts on sin. In the novel, “Amir loses Hassan (his best friend) when the boy runs off to reclaim the winning kite and is attacked and raped by Assef, the town bully” (Gale 2). The town bully, Assef, is described as brutally violent and unnecessarily

Being an only child and having no mother to care for him, Amir looked towards Baba for guidance in choices made in everyday life. Seeing that Baba was not the most kind hearted of men around him, Amir took each of Baba’s actions to heart and it showed through his character. Although his father does a lot for those around him, he also expects Amir to act in the same manner; therefore, pushing Amir to do his best by setting high expectations forced Amir to believe that his father did not love him as much as he said. “Real men didn’t read poetry - and God forbid they should ever write it! Real men - real boys - played soccer just as Baba had when he had been young.” Although Baba loved Amir, he struggled to show it at times which showed as Amir would convey the same actions onto Hassan. Amir longed for Baba’s respect and approval which he eventually gained when he married Soraya a month before his father’s passing. Baba had always treated Hassan as more of his own than he did with Amir which learning later on in life, Hassan was his biological son. Angered by the favorability towards Hassan and the guilt of watching Hassan be raped after the kite race, Amir was faced with the decision of getting rid of Hassan and hoping the guilt and hatred diminished or facing it and telling his father how he feels and what he had witnessed. Amir, filled with the hatred and guilt about what happened that winter day, hid his birthday money and watch under hassan’s pillow to frame him and force him to leave. This was Amir’s lowest point in his life. No kindness or feelings of any sort were showing as he committed such a selfish act; nevertheless, when asked about the stolen items, Hassan admitted that he had done it as he knew Amir no longer wanted him around. After being begged by Baba to stay, Hassan and Ali knew that it was best for the two of them

The well-known rapper, Ice T. once said, “Redemption just means you just make a change in your life and you try to do right, versus what you were doing, which was wrong.” In his book, The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini writes a story about a friendship between two Afghan boys, Amir and Hassan, and how an act of disloyalty affected their lives. Amir struggles with the disappointment of his father, Baba. When the opportunity arrived for him to make Baba proud, it came with a price. When Hassan was being raped, Amir just stood and watched, unable to do something. His lack of bravery cost him their relationship, and he carries the guilt with him to adulthood. Through his book, The Kite Runner, Hosseini shows how remorse can lead redemption.

First and foremost, Baba and Amir's relationship is one of the most important ones in the book as their relationship lead to Amir not reporting the rape of Hassan which is a big part of the story as this leads to other big events that take place later on. First of all, Baba never

Even though Hassan is technically inferior due to the society in Afghanistan, Amir should act like they are equals. Throughout the book, Amir treats Hassan worse and worse, until they are separated. At one point in the book, as Hassan is essentially tortured, being raped by the neighborhood bully, Assef, “the ear eater” Amir does nothing but watches (Hosseini 45). While Amir

When Amir betrays Hassan, he doesn’t betray Hassan by not stopping the rape. It is the fact that he is willing to break the bond between him and Hassan by not stepping up for Hassan. Thus, for him to truly redeem himself, he has to reconnect that bond. Sadly he couldn’t reconnect that bond between himself and Hassan, but he can connect with his son, Sohrab. This can first be seen when Amir hugs Sohrab for the first time. By doing this, he is showing that he is willing, and happy, to accept Sohrab into his life and to bond with him. Sohrab is an “injured soul’, who had been affected partially by Amir’s betrayal. If Amir would not have betrayed Hassan, Ali and Hassan would not have moved away, and thus Hassan and his family would not have had to come back to later be killed, and Sohrab would not have been in the orphanage. Thus Amir is redeeming himself by bonding with the one who had to bear the consequences of his actions. Later on, Amir tightens this bond by breaking the discriminatory line between General Taheri and Sohrab by saying, “You will never refer to him as ‘Hazara boy’ in my presence. He has a name and it’s Sohrab.” By saying this, Amir shows that he has fully accepted Sohrab, and doesn’t have any of the thoughts he previously had about Hassan. Salim does the same thing when he gives Latika his phone and his car. All through his childhood and even into

The sense of the relationship between Amir and Hassan becomes far distant. Keeping all the racial instinct in his mind, Amir even away goes from the scene of Hassan’s raped. “I never thought of Hassan and me as friends either. Not in the usual sense, anyhow. Neither is religion.

Towards the end of the book Amir is told the truth about Hassan being his half brother and how he has to be the one to retrieve Hassan's son from the orphanage. Amir felt is was obligation to retrieve Sohrab and fix what he broke between him and

Although he was just a child, Amir in the beginning of the novel was selfish and a coward. Amir would forever regret his actions (or lack thereof) and the decisions he made when he was young. Amir’s father, Baba, in the beginning of the story, worried that Amir was too soft and lacked any courage to stand up for himself. When Baba was privately speaking to his friend, Rahim Khan, about Amir and his peers, “I see how they push him around, take his toys from him, give him a shove, a whack there. And, you know, he never fights back. Never” (Hosseini 22). At first when reading the story, it may seem Baba was just being a little too hard on his son for being different than how he was as a child. As readers found out, however, Baba’s worries had

The guilt that accompanies betrayal lasts a lifetime and affects not only the lives of the betrayed but also the perpetrator. The novel, The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini, follows a young Afghani boy, Amir, throughout the majority of his life. As a child, Amir betrays his best friend, Hassan. Because of his actions, his family suffers and he has to live with guilt for the rest of his life. As an adult, Amir learns secrets of his Father, Baba’s, past and works towards redeeming himself. Amir and Baba’s acts of betrayal demonstrate the full effects that one event can have on someone's life, and how one can work towards redemption. Hassan is able to show how even when a betrayal is an option, friendship always overcomes evil.

Throughout the novel, Amir’s father is a picture of stoicism. Despite any difficulties,he overcomes them with grace and nobility, helping anyone he can along the way. He is looked up to by the people of Kabul, and practically worshipped by his own son, yet he continues to keep his solid demeanor. Despite this, the ideal Baba is not without fault, as we the readers learn that he had been lying about his relationship with Hassan and Ali. We learn that Baba had conceived the boy in an affair with Ali’s wife Sanundabar. This was a secret kept from everyone, and few would even know if it had not been for the intuitive Rahim, who connected the dots and realized what had happened. Once Amir discovers this, his formally unwavering idolism towards Baba shifts, and he is left changed and confused.