The Kite Runner Betrayal Quotes Betrayal Essay

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Judas’ kiss
The saddest thing about betrayal is that it never comes from your enemies. It comes from friends and loved ones. ~unknown~
Betrayal is the sense of being affected by the intentional actions o omissions of a trusted of a trusted person. The most usual forms of betrayal are disloyalty, infidelity and dishonesty. According to dictionary.com the word betrayal means, to disappoint the hopes or expectations of someone or to be disloyal to a person and violate the confidence in a relationship. The negative and unfaithful action of betrayal has been sadly performed in every civilization since the beginning of human history. One of the darkest moments in all of history is the betrayal of Jesus Christ by one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot. …show more content…

He did not only betray his loved ones, but also himself. Even though Amir felt guilty betraying his friends, he did not have the willpower of coming up front and tell his deepest secrets in order to lessen his guilt. He had to suffer the burden of every lie he said to his loved ones. However, Amir wanted to be a different person, a brave one, somebody strong and rightful, but he kept being haunted by his cowardly attitude. After he watched Hassan get raped and did or sad nothing, he spent many nights without sleeping well. He acknowledged to the sleeping bodies around him his offense committed to Hassan. “[ Amir] wished someone could hear him saying [he] watched Hassan get raped because he just wanted to end up living with that lie any longer” (86). In addition, he remembered Hassan’s dream about swimming in the lake. “there is no monster, [ Hassan] said, just water. Expect [Hassan] had been wrong about that. There was a monster in the lake. It had grabbed Hassan by the ankles, dragged him to the murky bottom. [Amir] was that monster” (86). Amir continued betraying himself over and over again because he made his own life a terrible endless spiral lies. When Amir arrived America, he thought about an opportunity to forget everything from his dark past including his

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