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Ali The Hazara 'In The Kite Runner'

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Ali the Hazara was adopted by Baba’s father when Ali’s parents died. Because of this Ali and Baba grew up together like siblings. In a very similar circumstance, since Ali and Baba were already close, their kids Hassan and Amir also had the opportunity to grow up together. In both situations, Ali and Hassan remain humble as well as loyal to their counterparts, doing anything they ask or need. An important part of their relationships is the political situation in Afghanistan. The main divide that truly keeps the two likely friends distant is the difference in culture. Amir and Baba belong to the Pashtun Culture who currently still hold high status in Afghanistan. On the other hand however, Ali and Hassan are both Hazaras. This is the lesser …show more content…

It appears that even though Baba and Ali have never become true friends they still act as much like friends as they can. The novel provides us with the idea that Baba is a much better guy then his son. However, we learn that even Baba has betrayed his servant too much like Amir. Baba says “Now, no matter what the mullah teaches, there is only one sin, only one. And that is theft. Every other sin is a variation of theft” (Hosseini 17). This quote is ironic because he is guilty of doing just that. He stole a brother from Amir, he stole an identity and a life from Hassan, and most importantly he stole honor from Ali and his wife. Though some betrayals may be inevitable in a master/servant relationship, This disaster could have been avoided and was not inevitable. In a very similar way Amir betrays Hassan. When Amir witnesses Hassan getting raped in an alley, he doesn't stop it or even try to help. In fact he acts like he never saw anything at all. Just like Ali, he helped steal Hassan's identity and his honor just by one act alone. In this case however, This situation was truly inevitable. Because Hassan was a Hazara and Amir was Pashtun, there was simply no way for Amir to be able to stick up for Hassan without being put through other conflicts with Pashtuns. Had situations been different and there wasn't that added stress of clashing cultures, Amir would never have betrayed his childhood

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He can’t earn up to sleeping with Sanaubar and giving her a child, especially after Ali stays loyal and continues to serve Baba, “How had Baba brought himself to look Ali in the eye? How had Ali lived in that house, day in and day out, knowing he had been dishonored by his master in the single worst way an Afghan man can be dishonored” (Hosseini 225). These unanswered questions leave readers sympathizing with Ali and thinking more into their relationship. Ali gives his life away for Baba, being a beautiful father for Hassan regardless of his parents and how Sanaubar ridiculed him after birth. He turns his devotion to Baba into love for Hassan and ultimately chooses to protect Hassan by leaving Baba and Kabul for Hazarajat, “Then I saw Baba do something I had never seen him do before: He cried…‘Please,’ Baba was saying…

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The Connecticut Compromised of 1787 in the United States, also known as the Great Compromised, originated in the creation of legislative bodies. It joined the Virginia Plan that favored population-based representation, and the New Jersey Plan, which featured each state as an equal. Roger Sherman, of Connecticut, played an important role in building this compromise. Roger Sherman was well-regarded at the convention and was respected by many of the other members. On the morning of June 11, Sherman proposed that the proportion of suffrage in the first chamber should correspond to the respective number of free inhabitants; and in the second chamber or Senate, each state should have one vote and no more.

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We get to know a lot about Amir, a young boy, and his father, Baba Throughout the story we see Baba’s gradual change in character, turning from the cold distant father he was to the loving and caring father Amir wanted him to be. Baba fills the hole inside himself that was dug by guilt in Afghanistan by learning to move on from his sins and build a relationship with his son in America. The loss of his wife, Sofia Akrami, created the hole. After her death and Amir’s birth, he felt such despair that he had an affair with his best friend, Ali’s, wife. This only created more guilt, as he impregnated her with Hassan.

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He can not bear the scrutiny so he humiliates hassan in public by not defending him or protecting him and he humiliates him when they 2 are alone by telling petty lies to him. But the ironic thing is that the very shame he tries to avoid, becomes a worse self loathing shame latter from all his guilt. However, eventually Amir finds himself in a situation where a sense of family, redemption and belonging comes over him and is able to push his instinctual self preservation tendencies away and pay his respects to Hassan by defending and protecting his child. Coincidentally, where Amir prefered to be accepted, Hassan was never given

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Amir first realizes the depth of his cowardice as he watches Assef rape Hassan in the alley and thinks, “I could step in into that alley, stand up for Hassan—the way he stood up for me all those times in the past—and accept whatever happened to me. Or I could run” (Hosseini 77). He has an epiphany that he could choose to be brave and selfless like Hassan and step up to Assef regardless of any physical consequences. However, despite his understanding that the noble choice would be to interfere and stop Assef, Amir is unable to act on it because his fear of Assef overwhelms him. The guilt that consumes Amir in the weeks following Hassan’s rape indicates that he understands the extent of his selfish behavior and needs to resolve it before he can forgive himself.

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Baba forgave him, but Ali decided to leave anyhow. This act was cowardly of Amir. He decided that he wanted to get rid of Hassan instead of facing his problem and express his regret to Hassan. In 1981 Amir and Baba fled from Afghanistan and went living in the

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Both Amir and Baba proved similar in their acts of courage, their pursuit for passion and their decisions to betray a loved one. Amir and Baba proved to be similar not only in their good choices but also in the bad choices of betraying someone. The comparison should not be made between Amir as a child and Baba as a man. It is only right to compare Amir after he has progressed further into life and truly defined himself. “A boy who won’t stand up for himself becomes a man who can’t stand up to anything.

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Baba and Amir's foil is shown throughout the novel, but you can already identify many differences at the beginning of the book when they lived in Kabul. Although, they also do have a few similarities. They are similar because they are father and son and share similar characterises. Baba and Amir both grew up wealthy as they are Pashtuns. Amir and Baba both hold hard secrets and live their life filled with guilt.

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Lastly, Amir sacrifices his life to accommodate for Sohrab, Hassan’s son, after being taken by the Taliban. Amir resembles Baba because he too takes up redemption for the awful things he did. He understands the great danger Sohrab is in. He risks his life to help Sohrab; this shows loyalty to Hassan. Even though Sohrab is not Hassan saving his son shows that Amir is loyal to him.

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Amir finally did the worst possible thing to Hassan and his father Ali, trying to get them fired Amir, “lifted Hassan’s mattress and planted my new watch and a handful of Afghan bills under it” (104). He betrayed Hassan and Ali, the two people who cared about him the most, and the two people he himself cared about the most. Amir is a coward and even though one would feel bad for him, he did things that couldn't be forgiven. Although he just wants his father’s love which readers can understand, it gave him no right to do any of these things to Hassan and

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This leads to the eventual fallout of Amir and Hassan’s friendship. Despite the fact that Ali and Hassan are ethnic Hazaras, they are able to live as servants in Baba’s house due to the close relationship between Ali and Baba that has grown stronger over the years. As well, after the invasion of the Soviet Army in Afghanistan, Baba grows a deep hatred of Russians and their actions in destroying his homeland. Since living conditions become too unbearable in Afghanistan, Baba and Amir have no choice but to flee to America and build up their new lives. Living in a community such as the Wazir Akbar Khan district portrays wealth and success whereas an impoverished community such as Hazarajat is considered loathsome and disgusting.

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(Chapter 7, pg. 77) Amir, in this instance, struggles between deciding if Hassan was truly a friend of his, or rather, just a servant that plays with him at Amir’s convenience. He justifies at that moment betraying his friend, selfishly vindicating that this ought to be a sacrifice for Hassan being born into that social caste. Almost immediately after not intervening, Amir seriously regrets viewing Hassan as inferior during the rape as well as throughout their whole duration as children, seeing as Hassan did nothing to deserve such torture as he always been good to

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Amir would be free of his guilt. Maybe Hassan would’ve been able to go to America with Amir and Baba. Later Amir comes to a understand why he may not have been told originally. This is clear when he is trying to explain to Sohrab about Hassan, “‘Let’s just say they didn’t tell us because your father and I... we weren’t supposed to be brothers.’” (Hosseini 322).

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