Friendship transcends generations
“A special friend is hard to find, hard to lose and impossible to forget”. A healthy
friendship does not require one to sacrifice one’s dreams or dignity. In this thesis paper,
readers will get to know that how friendship and betrayal are related to each other and
how does friendship pass through all obstacles in life and endures for generations.
Friendship is a sense of mutual trust and support between two or more people.
However betrayal is an act of disloyalty or breaking of trust in any relationship. The
good thing about friendship is that it lasts for generations and the bitter truth about
betrayal is that it comes from the person one trusts the most. In this era of selfishness
and tough competition
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After a course of time, they start doing things together and
spend more time with each other. Gradually they start sharing a bond of common
understanding and care towards each other and this finally leads to their becoming best
friends. Friendship is passed on from one generation to the other i.e. bond between two
fathers or two mothers is passed on to their children. There also exists a friendship
between a person who is twenty years old and a person who is seventy years old, these
types of friends are usually called age gap friends. Friendship has no age barriers.
Friendship should be judged on maturity and not on the age difference. It multiplies the
good things of life and divides all the evil.
In The kite runner by Khaled Hossieni, friendship endures all boundaries of time. The tie
of love, attachment and respect has been bought together to show how relationships are
passed on from Baba and Ali to Amir and Hassan and finally to Sohrab. Although Khaled
Hossieni hasn’t introduced the friendship of Baba and Ali in great detail but the readers
get to know that there was a great bond between them because of which Amir and
Hassan also became best
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Amir doesn’t approve of Hassan’s behavior, Amir
places Afghani bills and his gold watch under Hassan’s mattress. Hassan agreed that he
stole the money thereby rescuing Amir once again from Baba. This shows that no matter
what the situation was, Hassan was always there for Amir.
Friends bond quickly. Doing things together, having same thoughts , moral values leads
to having better companionship. True friends are like a second family, they can be
depended upon at times of illness and other problems. Relations like friendship build
upon trust and loyalty. Even after betrayal, one can feel better if one pay’s attention to
the good memories and time spent together with the friend. Donald W. Larson believes
that long time friendships never end. They are not dependent on materialistic gains but
often depend on affection and never ending trust. It is correctly said by Donald W.
Larson, “old true friendships never die and they never fade away”. Relations that are
made when friendship endures generations are the most strong and beautiful ones.
Throughout the course of the novel, there are many instances of friendship and betrayal
but actual healing of amir's guilt is when Amir’s priority is to take care of Hassan’s
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In addition, the relationship between Amir and Baba softens. Baba admits to Amir after he
Amir's actions showed how much of a coward he was. Amir suffered his whole life living with the guilt of knowing that Hassan was raped, much like Baba lived his whole life in guilt knowing that he stole the truth from Ali by committing adultery. Baba ran from the truth, and so did Amir to protect the family name, even if that meant betraying the people closest to him. Baba was a man more worried about his image than anything, and that is what he taught his son as well. Slowly that is all Amir knew how to do: protect his family and himself, leading him into a life of guilt, and running from people when situations were challenging, instead of making the admirable decision and help a
According to dictionary.com betrayal means "an act of deliberate disloyalty,”. Betrayal is something that is very prevalent throughout the novel The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini which is a story about the betrayal that a young boy named Amir does to his friend Hassan. Amir shows that he is a betrayer to Hassan when he belittles, plots, refuses to acknowledge their friendship, and walks away from Hassan. With each betrayal listed they progressively get worse and worse as Amir continues to show how little he really cares for Hassan.
Betrayal can cause a person problems such as separation of families and friends, unexpected deaths, or lost of trust. On a daily basis people are betrayed, hurt and lied from people they have developed a close bond with. They lie and hurt the people that they will need when everything gets tough.
Thesis: Betrayal is a form of deception and disloyalty that breaks people’s trust, creates conflicts, jeopardizes relationships, impacts people in a negative manner and leads people to their demise.
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Betrayal is defined as being disloyal and breaking one’s trust. The sources used for evidence are
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Throughout human history, betrayal has been considered amongst the very worst offenses one could commit against another. Betrayal of another person is an despicable act of disloyalty and leads to broken trust. Betrayal, at its very core, is when one person in a relationship acts in such a way that favors their own interests at the expense of the other person. Betrayal sends a clear signal about how seldom the betrayer values their relationship with the betrayed. In modern society, cheating, lying, and self interest, are commonplace. One must do whatever it takes to get ahead, disregarding whomever they hurt along the way. In a world where many are reluctant to trust one another, it seems as if the only people one
He would do anything, even as a small child, to please Amir. Even after he grew up and had a son, he told his son about his love for Amir. “And, under the same roof, we spoke our first words. Mine was Baba. His was Amir. My name.” (Hosseini, 12). If this was a teenage romance novel this would be a love triangle. Between Amir, Hassan and Baba. Amir spent his entire life trying to make Baba like him, to forgive him for killing his wife, to understand him, and get that special father to son bonding. Baba instead gave his attention to the servant’s son, Hassan. Later the story we find out that Hassan is Baba’s son too, but this is after both have died and Amir is a grown man. During his childhood Amir would have done anything to gain his father attention like Hassan had. Baba, feeling guilty, gave his attention to Hassan, and treated him kindly, out of guilt for not being able to recognise Hassan as his son. Yet Baba never treated Amir diskindly, other than the fact they never got along. Hassan did not go to school, and spent his time helping Ali with household chores, but got respected by Baba, and given gifts during holidays and a kite for flying season. Amir and Baba did not click in the way both of them wanted too. Amir tried to fake interests in sports for Baba, but after watching a rider get trampled by his horse, and started crying during the one and only sport event Baba took him too. “I cried all the way back home. I remember how Baba’s hands clenched around the steering wheel. Clenched and unclenched. Mostly, I will never forget Baba’s valiant efforts to conceal the disgusted look on his face as he drove in silence.” (Hosseini, 23) This was Amir memory of the sporting event. Amir need for love from Baba, led him standing in the alley watching Hassan get raped, knowing that when he brought that blue kite to Baba he will earn his love. Hassan on the other hand could not love Amir any less. To