Hassans

the novel, The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini minor characters help to create a greater understanding of the main character Amir and create the central message of redemption. Three minor characters like Hassan, Baba and Sohrab all contribute to giving us a more in depth understanding of Amir. Hassan helps to show the type of person Amir is as a child and how he treats and thinks of people other than himself. Baba helps us to see what Amir wants and shows us that Amirs main goals in life come from the

word. Amir’s friend Hassan, is the most humble, loyal person Amir knows, given that it is one of the many qualities of a Hazara. On the other hand Amir has always been rude to Hassan and has definitely proved his disloyalty as his friend. As young boys, they were the best of buds, inseparable, like brothers. The irony of it was, Amir is Pashtun and Hassan is Hazara, that creates a dispute between the two that forbids that they be friends. What the two of them did not know was Hassan is Amir’s half brother

Sacrifice is a recurring theme in the novel, The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini. The Bible says “There is no greater love than to lay down one’s life for one’s friend.” This idea of sacrifice is a display of love throughout the novel. Hassan sacrifices his life to protect Amir’s home from the Taliban. Baba gives up the lifestyle he loves in Afghanistan and moves to the United States for Amir to have a better life. Amir returns Hassan’s sacrifice, by putting his own life on the line by going to get

childhood mistakes by going out of his way to be a man that he can be proud of. Throughout the story, Amir is ashamed of himself and feels guilty for the many mistakes he made as a child back in Kabul. A turning point in his life is when he betrays Hassan, his best friend and family servant. Amir hides in the shadows, doing nothing, saying nothing, and

Pomegranate Symbolism The novel, The Kite Runner, tells a tale of two boys, Amir and Hassan, from two total different backgrounds and their rollercoaster ride of a friendship. The story of their friendship is tied together with different stages of a nearby pomegranate tree. During the first part of the novel, Hassan and Amir’s friendship is strong, and likewise, the pomegranate tree is blossoming. However, as the book Hassan and Amir began to drift apart, the pomegranate tree slowly dies and is said to

The Taliban went to Baba’s house where Hassan was living and shot him in the head. Rahim Khan told Amir everything about what him and Hassan went through when Amir was in the United States. Rahim thought that Amir deserved to know about Hassan and then told Amir there was one way for him to be good again. Amir did not know what he was trying to say but Rahim Khan advised Amir about his nephew

wealthy Pashtun and Sunni Muslim, is faced with numerous internal conflicts which are caused by how his social status influenced him to interact with his servant half brother Hassan. Being raised among wealth and power determined the higher value of Amir’s relationship with Baba in comparison to his relationship with Hassan, while the lifelong self-accusation of his role in Hassan’s fate is the result of Amir’s bourgeoisie class consciousness. For the first twelve years of his life, Amir strived

Khan. Baba never even told his own son, Amir, about his mistake. In fact, Amir does not find out about the incident until a conversation with Rahim Khan nearly thirty years later. “Ali was sterile,’ Rahim Khan said ‘No he wasn’t. He and Sanaubar had Hassan, didn’t they?’ ‘No they didn’t.’ ‘Yes they did!’ ‘No, they didn’t Amir.’ ‘Then who---‘ ‘I think you know who (Hosseini, 234).” By saying this, Rahim Khan finally breaks the silence that Baba had instigated. Amir feels a great deal of anger towards

Hosseini are Amir, Hassan/Sohrab, and Assef based on if they are round or flat static or non static, likeable, and what we think about them. Amir the narrator and protagonist of the story.Amir had a good life based on where he lived, unless you view it from Amir’s view. Amir would always feel neglected by his father and never felt like he was living up to who he was supposed to be. The moment that makes the possibility of Amir becoming static and a round character is when he sees Hassan getting raped

by making the decision to not stop Assef from raping Hassan was definitely not going to make his father proud. Amir chose his father’s approval over doing the right thing, which was helping his best friend, Hassan. Baba had once said, “In the hour of need, believe me there’s no one you’d rather have at your side than a Pashtun.”(Hosseini 60) This is extremely ironic because Amir, the Pashtun was unable to help Hassan in his time of need yet Hassan, the Hazar was always willing and ready to help Amir