What Is The Theme Of Betrayal In The Kite Runner

The Kite Runner

“Another rib snapped, this time lower. What was so funny was that, for the first time since the winter of 1975, I felt at peace. I laughed because I saw that, in some hidden nook in the corner of my mind, I’d even been looking forward to this… My body was broken – just how badly I wouldn’t find out until later – but I felt healed.” After Amir sees his friend get sexually abused at a young age, readers get an insight on what the main theme of the book will be. Betrayal is to deliver or expose to a person by treachery or disloyalty. Even though Hassan was Amirs best friend, he betrayed him.

A friend is someone that you can talk to and trust with your secrets and have fun with. That is exactly what Amir and Hassans relationship

was like, they spent a lot of time together and enjoyed each others company.
“In the end, I ran. I ran because I was a coward. I was afraid of Assef and what he would do to me… I actually aspired to cowardice, because the alternative, the real reason I was running, was that Assef was right: Nothing was free in this world. Maybe Hassan was the price I had to pay, the lamb I had to slay, to win Baba. Was it a fair price? The answer floated to my conscious mind before I could thwart it: He was just a Hazara, wasn’t he?”
Hassan was brutally raped by a bully the is their age. Amir saw the whole thing happen and he didn’t do anything about it, he didn’t go find someone to help or budge in to stop it, he watched it happen, he betrayed his friend. He wasn’t there for the person who would have had his back any day for him. Hassan trusted Amir and truly thought that they were friends and that Amir would do anything for his friend.
“But before you sacrifice yourself for him, think about this: Would he do the same for you? Have you ever wondered why he never includes you in games when he has guests? Why he only plays with you when no one else is around? I’ll tell you why, Hazara. Because to him, you’re nothing but an ugly pet…” “Amir agha and I are friends,” Hassan said.
Hassan is a great friend to Amir and would have his back in any situation. But how do we know who are true friends are? Can others determine that or do you have to determine it. Here, Assef, Hassans abuser tells him that Amir really isn’t a true friend.
If someone betrays you once more than likely they will do it again. “A boy who won’t stand up for himself becomes a man who can’t stand up to anything.” When Amir experienced this incident, he didn’t stand up for his friend even though he wasn’t from the same background, Amir knew that it was wrong and he didn’t defend him. When you don’t stand up for what is right and what is wrong, or when you betray someone it will be a recurring thing that will happen in your life.
“As it turned out, Baba and I were more alike than I’d ever known.

We had both betrayed the people who would have given their lives for us. And with that came this realization: that Rahim Khan had summoned me here to atone not just for my sins but for Baba’s too.” Baba and Amir have both turned into men who betray the people that are the closests to them. They have both betrayed people numerous times and will probably do it

again.
Everyone has a conscious and betrayal is something that will always remain in your conscious.

Betrayal no matter who you are betraying, whether it be your best friend or your enemy, betrayal is always with you.

“That was a long time ago, but it’s wrong what they say about the past, I’ve learned, about how you can bury it. Because the past claws its way out. Looking back now, I realize I have been peeking into that deserted alley for the last twenty-six years.”

Even though many many years had passed, Amir always had that day in the alley on his mind, he could always vividly see the incident and it ate away at him. He felt like he had to do something to be good again. Which is something that a good friend of Amirs father had told him. “There is a way to be good again.” This led Amir to go back to Afghanistan to rescue Sohrab, Hassans son after Hassan and the rest of his family have been murdered. Amir felt that he could make up for his betrayal by doing this, by putting his life in danger for a man that he had not seen in many, many

years.
Once the damage has been done and you have betrayed someone, is it really possible to make it good again, is there a way to forgive someone who betrayed you?
Throughout this literary work, we see various instances of betrayal. We see men who can not stand up for themselves and go against the most important people in their lives. Betrayal is something that is done purposely and will always be on your conscious. Whether or not a person can truly make up for their betrayal Amir tried his best to honor his once best friend by adopting his after his father's death.