The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini is a novel following the life of a boy named Amir. The story follows him through his journey of life. He's faced with many adversities growing up. His house servant is like his best friend except Amir only sees him as his servant. He wants nothing more than to feel his father's love. The story follows the difficulties faced by Amir growing up in Afghanistan during the times he did. Although there are many themes in the book, the one that stands out the most is betrayal. The ones closest to you could betray you the most During Amir's childhood, his servant, Hassan was like his brother. They were only one year apart in age and Baba treated Hassan like his own son. Growing up like brothers, Hassan is as loyal to Amir as he could be. Sadly Amir is the opposite. Always leaving the blame on Hassan. But that's not betrayal, just being a bad friend. True betrayal is the letdown of the expected behavior of that person. This came during the annual kite-running tournament. Hassan is faced with …show more content…
After the incident, Amir and Hassan grew distant and they don't see each other as much as they used to. Amir has no idea that Hassan knows he watched as Assef and his friends attacked him. But he did, and that's what makes the betrayal so strong. Hassan saw Amir watch and expected he would maybe stand up for him seeing he's been loyal to Amir his whole life. But he watches and does nothing. Because of this, Amir's guilt is eating him from the inside out. He can't stand to see Hassan, So he frames him by planting his watch and his birthday money under Hassan's mattress “I lifted Hassan's mattress and planted my new watch and a handful of afgani bills under it”(Hosseini 104). He then tells Baba he thinks Hassan stole them. This does nothing but make things worse. Ali and Hassan feel so betrayed that they inform Baba that they are leaving and no longer work for him. They packed up their things and left. Amir never saw Hassan