Another reason, misconception creates a difficult situation for people in Borderline is hiding about your son. In this novel the FBI considers “Dr. Sabiri” a threat by contacting and meeting with a guy name “Tariq Hasan,” which the FBI assume is a terrorist, and nobody knows about “Tariq Hasan”, but “Dr. Sabiri” does and he hides it from the public and even his family, which puts him in a complex situation. Firstly, “Sami,” says to one of the FBI members, “Tariq Hasan? Who’s Tariq Hasan? (pg. 142).”
When it is revealed that Hassan is in fact Baba's son, Amir goes back to the memory of Baba's birthday gift to Hassan, finally making sense of it. Hassan's cleft lip is used as a device to hint at Hassan and Baba's true relationship and serve as a piece of evidence when the truth is
In The Kite Runner, the two main characters are Amir and Hassan. Amir and Hassan grew up at the same time. During the winter of 1975, all the kids in Kabul participate in a kite tournament. Amir won that kite tournament and Hassan went to get the blue kite that amir cut. But on his way, a boy named Assef chased him with other 2 boys.
The Hazara were considered to be less important than the Pashtuns. When the Taliban was told that there was a Hazara family living alone in a Pashtun house they went to the house to check it out. When the Taliban got there they discovered that Hassan and his family were living in Baba’s old house. The Taliban demanded that Hassan’s family leaves but when he protested they forced him out onto the street made him kneel and hot him in the back of the head, Farzana ran out screaming in terror after Hassan was shot and they shot and killed her also. Hassan and Farzana’s son, Sohrab, was taken to a very poor orphanage, when a couple of kids were given to the Taliban as
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.
The novel The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini proves the famous quote “The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree”. Many father son duos seem to never realize how alike they really are, only after closer analysis are the similarities found. A prime example of this is Amir and Baba. In the beginning of the novel they seemed to be polar opposites. Baba a father focused on keeping his dignity and protecting the dignity of others.
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
Hassan is low on the totem pole in terms of his everyday life, but he has a heart of gold. He is not an alpha male, but he is very strong mentally, and emotionally. Hassan and Assef are perfect in terms of being strong, like boys should and are expected to be. Amir is a weak boy, he doesn't live up to the expectations of his father's wishes, or the basic gender roles of society.
In The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini the connection Amir and Hassan have is a connection someone has with at least one person. I myself don't have a friend like Hassan but I have a Hassan in my life. Someone who is always loyal and truthful to you when you are not the same with them although you wish you were because they are nothing but honest with you. FInding someone like Hassan is hard and rare the worst thing about having a person like Hassan is treating them the complete opposite.
Hazaras were the less powerful race known as “weaker” race, no education or learning so they were used as servants, live either on the street or in servant’s house and have little in the way of belongings due to the lack of money. Hazara’s in the story were Hassan, Ali, Farzana, and Sohrab. The abuse of the Hazara in the book was the rape of Hassan by Assef, the stoning of Hazaras, shooting of Hassan and Farzana by the Taliban, and capturing, torture, abuse, and rape of Sohrab by Assef. “ Afghanistan is the land of the Pashtuns. It always has been , always will be.
Hosseini shows us how the Afghani culture and Amir’s reluctance to help
Amir was pretermitted by his Baba. He felt himself causative for the death of his mother who passed away during childbirth. He thinks that his Baba has never pardoned him for this. While his father is represented as a physically imposing man, a bear wrestler in fact, as well as an important male in his community and land, Amir is calm and apparently without courage and determination. Hassan is brilliant, brave, trustworthy, and athletic.
Amir, Baba’s son born in 1963, was a Pashtun in Afghanistan. His mother died while giving birth to him, and his father wasn’t very supportive of him. Baba always seemed to prefer Hassan, he thinks of Amir as weak and not very courageous. Amir had a passion for storytelling and writing, and because his father never supported him in the idea of becoming a writer, He trusted in Rahim Khan, a close friend of his father’s. Rahim supported his dreams of becoming a writer.
They mostly lived in the central region of Afghanistan. Hazaras were the most discriminated ethnicity among all other ethnic groups in the country due to governmental policies (Mousavi 1997, 160-63). They were discriminated indiscriminately by all ethnic groups but mostly by the Pashtuns since they were the power holders and the policy makers. In the late nineteen-century and early twentieth century, majority of the Hazaras were either killed or forcefully driven out of their hometowns from the central Afghanistan to different of regions of Afghanistan and Pakistan by Pashtun administrations (Kaker 2006, 136). Not even lower governmental positions were given to Hazaras before the invasion of Afghanistan by the Soviet Union in the
Human Beings: The New Toys ? "Hassan didn't struggle. Didn't even whimper. He moved his head slightly and I caught a glimpse of his face, saw the resignation in it. It was a look I had seen before, it was the look of the lamb."
