Examples Of Friendship In The Kite Runner

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Friendship The Kite Runner is a narrative, the first book written by Khaled Hosseini. There exist two main characters in this book——Amir and Hassan. Amir is the young son of a wealthy family, while Hassan is the son of a servant in Amir’s family. The story has happened in Afghanistan. Amir and Hassan always played together since childhood but after Amir watches Hassan is bullied and raped without showing up, unable to deal with his guilt, Amir forces Hassan’s family to leave their house. And then their friendship is broken. Soon the war began and Amir’ family run to America. Few years later, one of his father’s friends asks them to come back to Afghanistan and tells Amir three unbelievable facts: Hassan is the son of Amir’s father and the wife of Hassan’s “father”; Hassan died; the son of Hassan was sold. Hence, in order to atone for his crime, Amir finally finds Hassan’s son back. (Khaled Hosseini, 2003) Through the book, the main idea is the relationship between Amir and Hassan. They always play together during childhood. But Amir has never declared that Hassan is his friend and Amir doesn’t stand for Hassan when he is in trouble. Compare the friendship between my best friend, Chunzi, and me, we announce each other as best friend in one month after the first day we met and always try our best to protect each other. Thus we have obviously different attitude of Amir. On the contrary, Hassan always is nice to Amir, follows what Amir says …show more content…

One is the attitude of Amir: he would not like to declare the friendship with Hassan although they often play together. And rather than protecting Hassan, Amir prefers to protect himself. Another one is the attitude of Hassan: He wants to do everything Amir wants him to do and always protect Amir when he is in troubles. Compare to my attitude about friendship, I find that I have the different attitude with Amir while the same attitude with

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