Betrayal is something that hurts when it happens feeling all that trust you had towards someone and it's thrown out the window like a dusty carpet being shaked out of a window. Betrayal in the Kite Runner written by Khaled Hosseini has a big role on the everyday life of the characters in the book. Baba not telling Ali that he slept with his wife, when Amir doesn't tell Baba when he left Hassan in the alley getting raped, and even when Baba should of told Amir that Hasan a was his brother. How has this betrayal affected the life of Hassan the boy and later man who stood up for Amir whenever he needed help, stood by him after he was always picked on, and all the other things that Hassan had to deal with while growing up in this environment; how …show more content…
You can say the same about Amir and Hassan relationship, even though Amir does not physically kill Hassan but kills a part inside of him challenging Hassan with trust issues. When Hassan dies Amir blames himself for everything that has happened to Hassan and wishes that he could go back to how it used to be. But even if Amir apologized Hassan would have that bitterness towards him even though Hassan would have forgiven Amir. In an alleyway somewhere in Kabul sometime after the kite race, Amir wandered into an alley after Hassan and saw Assef and two other boys throwing Hassan on the ground and proceeded to rape him. Amir Faced a decision of trying to save Hassan and risking his life or he could run away; Amir ran away. He betrayed Hassan which led him to be a different boy growing up living that moment for his rest of his life trying to forget what happened. The last time Amir betrayed Hassan would have to be when he exiled Hassan and Ali from the house. Amir placed money and a watch under Hassan's pillow and he blames Hassan which made Baba mad and he told them to leave. This affected Hassan because he knew that Amir did this and he would not speak up about it because Amir was his friend, but Amir didn't feel the