The Kite Runner is a story about two afghan boys Amir and Hassan, who were best friends, their friendship eventually went south after Amir witnessed something horrible happen to his friend. They've played together everyday since they were very little, till one day when Hassan and his father decide to leave, leaving Amir distraught and confused.
Amir and Hassan friendship was strong because Amir did care about hassan even though his actions did not express what he felt inside.
In “The Kite Runner” by Khaled Hosseini the friendship between the main character Amir and his best friend Hassan is very strong, Amir and Hassan don't let people’s opinions of their friend ship affect them, they do everything together. Amir reads to Hassan, they watch western and bollywood movies together, and they fights kites every
winter together. After winning the kite tournament in the winter of 1975, Hassan says...
“ You won, Amir
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We won!” (Hosseini 66)
This quote is significant because it shows that amir cares for hassan, and that winning the tournament wasn’t just his great achievement but also hassans.
Society sees Amir and hassan's friendship as odd. The reason society sees it as odd is because Amir is a pashtun while his friend Hassan is hazara, a less respected ethnic group. For example after the kite tournament as Hassan went to run a kite for Amir, Assef says…
“Have you ever wondered why he never includes you in games when has guests? Why he only plays with you when no one else is around? Ill tell you why, hazara. Because he to him you are nothing but an ugly pet.” (Hosseini 72)
Assef sees it as wrong for a hazara to be friends with a pashtun. He only sees hazaras as servants, he treats them more like animals than humans. This quote is said in a low point for Amir, Amir wants to help Hassan and he feels for him, but he was too scared so he runs away.
“I ran because i was a coward. I was afraid of Assef and what he would do to me.” (Hosseini
He’ll never be anything but a cook. How dare he criticize you?” (34). The thoughts of discrimination that Amir has pushed to the back of his head suddenly come out in this moment. This ingrained racism that Amir has programs him to look down upon Hazaras.
Amir's mother passes away during his birth, and his left with the suspicion that his father blames him for her death. Amir longes for his father's attention and approval, but does not receive any affection as a son. He grows up with his Hazara best friend, Hassan. In Afghanistan culture, Hazaras are considered lower class and inferiors in society. Amir describes his friendship with Hassan saying, “then he would remind us that there was a brotherhood between people who had fed from the same breast, a kinship that not even time could break."
Hassan and Amir were close, but were not “friends”. There was once a kite fighting tournament that Amir won and Hassan was the kite runner. Hassan went after the last kite and while returning to Amir from capturing the kite, Hassan ran into a known bully, Assef. Amir was looking for Hassan. When Amir finds Hassan, he sees Assef with him.
He made a sweeping, grandiose gesture with his hands. " Afghanistan for Pashtuns, I say. That's my vision." (40) Assef rapes Hassan went they are children and later Hassan’s son Sohrab. He also stones people to death for fun and people see him as a hero for it.
...h him; another part to this is because he believes Hassan is just a dirty Hazara boy. “I'd chase the car, screaming for it to stop. I'd pull Hassan out of the backseat and tell him I was sorry, so sorry, my tears mixing with rainwater. We'd hug in the downpour (Hosseini 109).” After Amir causes Hassan to leave, he laments about letting, more like making, his best friend leave him. He sees the dirty Hazara boy as his best friend at that moment. In both of these stories, the main character realizes how similar they are to the other social or religious group.
Despite this absence of fatherly affection, Amir has other people who care about him deeply. To Amir, Hassan is his servant first and his best friend second. Throughout Afghani culture, this superiority idea is continually upheld and reinforced. Hassan, on the other hand, sees Amir as his all knowledgeable best friend. He protects Amir against the attacks of Assef out of love and devotion. Unfortunately, Hassan’s defense only leads to Amir burrowing deeper into his natural state of cowardice.
The Kite Runner focuses on the relationship between two Afghan boys Amir and Hassan. Amir is a Pashtun and Sunni Muslim, while Hassan is a Hazara and a Shi’a. Despite their ethnic and religious differences, Amir and Hassan grow to be friends, although Amir is troubled by Hassan, and his relationship with his companion, one year his junior, is complex. Amir and Hassan seem to have a "best friend" type relationship. The two boys, Hassan and Amir, are main characters in the book titled, The Kite Runner. The two boys have a relationship that is significantly different compared to most. There are many different facets that distinguish the relationship the boys possess. The boys do write their names in a pomegranate tree as the "sultans of Kabul" (Kite Runner 27) but, their friendship is not strong and it is one sided. Hassan has love for Amir. He loves him like a brother. Hassan is exceedingly loyal to Amir. The relationship between the two boys is emotionally wearing and rather gloomy for the most part. The main reason for their complicated relationship is the fact that Amir is Pashtun, and Hassan is Hazara. The Afghan society places Hassan lower than Amir. Hassan is Amir's servant. The placement of Hassan in the Afghan society disenables Amir from becoming Hassan's true friend. Amir sees Hassan as lower than human. Amir ruins the chance for friendship between himself and Hassan because he is jealous of Hassan, he thinks of Hassan as a lower human, and because Amir possesses such extreme guilt for what he has done to Hassan. Amir is an unforgivable person overall.
Betrayal, redemption, and forgiveness are all major themes in The Kite Runner written by Khaled Hosseini. The novel also focuses around the theme of a broken relationship between father and son as well as facing difficult situations from ones past. Amir and Hassan are best friends with two completely different personalities. Each character in the novel faces their own hardships and eventually learns to overcome those difficulties. Beginning with betrayal then the characters have to make their way to gaining redemption and forgiveness from others, as well as their self, is carried on throughout the novel. It is a continuous story of the relationships between Amir and his father Baba and facing their challenges from the past every day of their present.
When people are given a chance to redeem themselves they will try to use their best abilities to accomplish their objective. The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini, is a historical fiction that follows Amir from childhood to adulthood. Amir, a socially awkward kid, lives in Kabul, Afghanistan with his father, Baba, a successful businessman, with his best friend, Hassan. Baba is discouraging towards Amir for not being confident in himself, but Amir finds a passion in writing. When Amir and Hassan win a kite fighting tournament, it causes Baba to accept Amir, but ultimately Hassan leaves Baba’s household because Amir betrays Hassan by not defending him when he is raped by local bullies. Due to turmoil rising in Afghanistan, Amir and Baba travel to America, where Amir becomes a successful writer and has a wife. Then Amir receives a call that can help Amir redeem his friendship with Hassan. As the book progresses, Hosseini proves that anything can be fixed through redemption. Amir’s pursuit of writing in America demonstrates the freedom found there, exemplifying the endless freedom found in America compared to Kabul. In a quest to save Hassan’s son, Sohrab, Amir fights Assef, an adversary of Amir since childhood; as Amir is losing the brawl, he goes through a similar pain that he made Hassan go through. When settling in America, Amir and Baba’s relationship improves as compared to their poor affliction in Kabul.
Loyalty is the building block of friendship that distinguish a true friend from a fake one, it shows how strong the friendship is. In The Kite Runner, loyalty was portrayed through the relationship between Amir and Hassan friendship. Hassan, Amir’s Hazara servant, was extremely loyal to his friend, regardless of the class or culture barrier between them. Amir was pashtun,rich and educated, in comparison, Hassan was a Hazara, poor and illiterate.
When Khaled Hosseini wrote his phenomenal novel, The Kite Runner, he created a story with characters being divided because of their financial status. One character in particular, Hassan, he is a young Hazara boy. This group of people are found to be the lower-class, poorer families who tend to be servants for the Pashtuns, the wealthier class. Hassan and his father are the servants for Baba and his best friend Amir who are Pashtuns. Every day, Hassan served on Amir and Baba along with keeping a strong friendship with Amir.
Amir's blunt rejection to Rahim Khan’s request to bring Sohrab is an act of betrayal to Hassan. He betrays Hassan one more time, even when Hassan dies as a loyal friend. Through the book, Amir’s ongoing troubles haunt him as the years go by, but I believe he would take any opportunity to redeem himself.
The relationships Amir had forged early on in life largely consisted of Hassan and Rahim Khan when he was young because of Baba’s ignorance of Amir’s interest and silent pleas for attention. However, Rahim Khan and Amir were able to display a relationship like that of a father and son. Throughout the book it was seen that Baba would often turn Amir away when he talked about literature or showed any signs of weakness, whereas Rahim khan always encouraged and listened to Amir. Additionally, Amir would occasionally make comments that alluded to him seeing Rahim Khan as more of a father figure than Baba and later within the story Amir specially flies to Pakistan when he heard of Rahim’s failing health. Both Amir and Rahim were not blood related, however this special bond between Amir and Rahim Khan came about through the 17 years that they spent together in Kabul through the good and the bad. Similar to Poncho Bebe, Rahim grew fond of Amir and they created a special bond similar to that of family. This bond was especially driven by Amir having been acquaintanced with Rahim ever since he was little, and Rahim would treat Amir as if he was his own son. In chapter four of The Kite Runner when Amir just finished his first short story, he eagerly ran to Baba’s study and showed his story to him looking for approval, however Baba was unresponsive.
The Kite Runner is a novel written by Khaled Hosseini. It is a story about friendship, betrayal, guilt and redemption. The story takes place in Afghanistan and revolves around two friends named Amir and Hassan. Amir is born in a Pashtun family and is respected across Kabul because of his heroic father Baba. They are a part of the Sunni Muslim religion. In contrast, Hassan is part of the Hazara tribe and they are persecuted in Afghanistan for taking part in the Shiite religion. Added to Hassan’s disgrace is that his father is crippled and his mother’s reputation for tempting lots of men into sin. The two became friends because they were born in the same household and nursed by the same maid. They took their first steps together in the same backyard, watched the cinema together and were inseparable growing up.
The Kite Runner is a novel about a distant family, the relationship between father and son, and also among two brothers as they deal with guilt and forgiveness. Amir the main character grows up in Kabul, Afghanistan prior to the Taliban regime. Amir spends most of his early childhood with a Hazara boy named Hassan. Hassan is Amir's best friend and illegitimate brother. The secret to the novel the boys are fathered by the same man. One single moment defines Amir when he witnesses with the rape of his brother by Assef. Amir must decide what to do and what kind of person he will become. Does he ignore the situation, or does he defend his best friend? "I had one last chance to make a decision. One final opportunity to decide who I was going to