Hassans

When someone reads “The Kite Runner” and they read the few pages that mention Hassan getting raped by Assef and Amir witnessing this occurance but not doing anything about it, they are quick to judge. If they were to put themselves in Amir’s shoes, a little boy, watching his best friend get raped, you wouldn’t automatically help, shock would take over you. Amir doesn’t have the guts to put himself out there and stand up for himself, he wouldn’t even be able to stand up for others. Although Amir has

up in Afghanistan near war times, causing Amir’s ideals and morals to be challenged. The first symbol is shown through Hassan’s harelip and slingshot. Hassan is portrayed as an intelligent, humble, optimistic character who is born with a harelip making him look like he is always smiling. On one of Hassan’s birthdays, Amir’s father, Ali, has Hassan undergo surgery

reminds him about his past and his friend Hassan. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini begins in the 1970s in Kabul, Afghanistan, where we meet Amir, the son of wealthy Afghanistan business man, Baba, and his “friend”, Hassan, the son of his father 's servant, Ali. Both boys are from two very different worlds, Hassan is a Hazara and Amir is a Pashtun, which makes them the polar opposite from each other in social class. What’s interesting about Amir and Hassan is that they are not only friends in their

a character in the novel is Baba, Amir’s father. Baba, experiences guilt when he betrays his servant by sleeping with his wife and causing her to become pregnant. Together they have a child called Hassan. Throughout the course of the novel, Baba feels guilty that he can not be a proper father to Hassan so he treats his own son as a disappointment. Lastly, a somewhat minor character in the book, Sanaubar, experiences guilt when she declines to hold her son and leaves her family. Sanaubar’s guilt eventually

father Baba. They had two servants working for them; Ali and his harelipped son Hassan. Ali and Hassan belongs to an ethnic minority called

to the truth”(Hosseini 225). Throughout this book Amir and Hassan have always been split up as Pashtun and Hazara. Amir’s Baba hid the truth from Amir and Hassan his whole life, it was that they are half- brothers. If they knew this truth when they were younger their lives could have turned out different from how it actually was. Amir could have been more of a friend to Hassan than he was and less obsessed with Baba’s opinion. Maybe Hassan wouldn’t have been sexually harassed, maybe he could of went

watching Hassan get raped and doing nothing to stop it. In the beginning of the book as Amir and Hassan were growing up together, Amir would never fight off the bullies, he could not stand up for himself so Hassan would protect him. Yet when the time came for Hassan to need Amir he couldn’t do it and stayed hidden from the view of Assef, Hassan’s rapist. Amir’s past in a personal sense is the reason the book played out the way it did. Before Hassan was raped Assef would bully Amir and Hassan, Assef

like her. This is comparable to a scenario in The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini. Amir, the protagonist, is a Pashtun who is considered better than Hazaras on the social ladder. Hassan and Amir are best friends until Amir quickly becomes influenced by his racist culture. Pashtuns around Amir influence him to consider Hassan his servant, rather than his friend. Through Amir, Hosseini shows when people are surrounded by racism it can have a crucial effect on

It was one thing for Amir to bully Hassan with his teasings, but to act as if nothing had happened to his own brother was horrible. As time went on, Amir had failed to tell the truth even when Ali had asked him what was wrong with Hassan. The guilt in his heart grew heavier and heavier. His lack of honesty towards Ali resulted in the one and only outcome, the truth being found out. Ali

realize he is a symbol until the end of the dramatic roller coaster. Throughout the beginning of the book, Amir had constant episodes of jealousy directed towards Hassan. An example from the book is, “I lied and told Hassan had the runs. I wanted Baba all to myself. And besides, one time at Gharga Lake, Hassan and I were skimming stones and Hassan made his stone skip eight times. The most I managed was five.” Furthermore, Amir had always jealous of Hassan’s athletic skills. A sequential