The Kite Runner Friendship Analysis

Friendship

The Kite Runner is a narrative, the first book written by Khaled Hosseini. During this book, there exist two main characters——Amir and Hassan. Amir is the young master son of the wealthiest family, and at the same time, Hassan is the son of servant in Amir’s family. The story is happened in Afghanistan. Amir and Hassan always played together from childhood but after one kite competition, when Hassan helps pick the last kite and met three older bad boys, their friendship, or a inexpressible relationship, was broken. Because, the best friend in Hassan’s heart, Amir watched how three boys bully and rape Hassan in tears without showing up and protect Hassan. Then struggling with guilty, Amir framed Hassan that Hassan “stole” his watch

We would sit across from each other on a pair of high branches, our naked feet dangling, our trouser pockets filled with dried mulberries and walnuts. We took turns with the mirror as we ate mulberries, pelted each other with them, giggling, laughing.” (Khaled Hosseini, 2003, Chapter 1)

All of those spot show me that they love playing with each other and indeed they do play together nearly all the time. So of course they should be declared as the best friends. Because my best friend, Chunzi, and I are in the same middle school and same class, so, in other’s minds, we were stuck together from morning to night, from the first class to the last class. We ate lunch together, studied together and even went to the restroom together. So, we have the same experience as Amir and Hassan: we all spend plenty of time with our each other. Then an upset point comes out:

“Baba would laugh and throw his arm around Ali. But in none of his stories did Baba ever refer to Ali as his friend. The curious thing was, I never thought of Hassan and me as friends either.” (Khaled Hosseini, 2003, Chapter