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Betrayal In The Kite Runner

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In the book “The Kite Runner” written by Khaled Hosseini, Amir betrays Hassan. Before the incident thought their relationship was like none other. They were best friends who were always were together, even though everyone always asked why Amir considered Hassan was very loyal to Amir, he always took the blame when they would get in trouble. Hassan would always stand up for Amir, like when Assef and his were friends were trying to gang up on Amir but Hassan had his slingshot ready to shoot and scared them off. Hassan had always proved his loyalty towards Amir, but not Amir. He just proved to be a coward. The friendship between Amir and Hassan had gone downhill the day of the kite tournament. After Amir and Hassan worked very hard to cut down every kite they won, they worked very well as a team. …show more content…

Amir realized Hassan was taking a while so he went around town looking for him and found Hassan with Assef in the alley. Assef hid to see what they were trying to do. They wanted the kite but Hassan didn’t give it up no matter what they did to him. He knew it was Amir’s and he was going to return it to him. So Assef let him keep it but in return he raped Hassan and Amir didn’t do anything to stop it. “I could step into that alley, stand up for Hassan – the way he’d stood up for me all those times in the past and accept whatever would happen to me, or I could run. In the end I ran.” (Hosseini 137). Instead of helping Hassan, Amir ran away like a coward. And in that moment he had betrayed Hassan. The worst thing was that after he found Hassan he acted like nothing happened. The guilt started to get to Amir and he took it out on Hassan. He ignored him and treated him

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