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Character Analysis Of Quotes From 'The Kite Runner'

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Character Trait Note #1: Amir fits the character trait of Cowardly because of how he cannot stand up for himself or others sometimes, mostly when he was younger. This quote shows how Amir is a coward because he would not stand up to Assef and help Hassan. Instead, he ran away and pretended that he was never there. Another example of Amir’s cowardice was when Baba would persuade him to act a certain way and how he wanted to be a writer, but Baba wouldn’t let him. He always wanted to impress Baba and he was a coward because he didn’t profess his true feelings or what he felt about what he wanted to do. Finally, when Amir is an adult he realizes that he needs to stand up for himself and for others. Character Trait Note #2: The character trait of regretful accurately depicts Amir’s personality. Amir, throughout his life, felt guilty because of what he did to Hassan. He feels horrible that he did not help his friend when he was in …show more content…

Amir, when he was a child, was jealous of Hassan because of the amount of attention Hassan received from Baba. He wanted Baba to love him more than Hassan, but he never realized that Hassan was his brother as well. After he finally got to spend some alone time with Baba, he felt like he was missing something, or perhaps someone. Amir felt guilty about being horrible to Hassan and feels ashamed of his jealousy. Character Trait Note #5: Amir can also be seen as caring. He can be seen as caring because of how he tries to help Baba and how he won’t ever leave his side. Amir wanted Baba to do the chemotherapy because he loved him and didn’t want to see him in pain, however Baba didn’t want to have chemotherapy. Another example of Amir being caring is when he gave Farid’s family money. The morning he left the family, he gave them a fistful of crumpled money under their mattress because he felt bad for them and wanted to help them in their time of

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Can Amir be good again… ? This is the exact question that has been continuously running through my mind with each turn of the page in The Kite Runner, though before hand, I found myself wondering what aspects, qualities, or characteristics have ever defined Amir as “good” in the first place? Furthermore, by the term, “good”, do our minds think of “good” as in only benefiting thyself, or benefiting those of the world around us? Before one can determine if Amir can be good again, these questions that linger in the depths of our mind must be brought to the surface of reality and acknowledged. As far as the reader knows, Hassan and Amir both started life at the same place, but when one analyzes the characters personal characteristics, they foil each other in such a way that Hassan seems to have a sole purpose of exposing the flaws of Amir throughout their childhood, leaving an everlasting impact on the reader's thoughts, in which it is hard for the reader to detect the good in Amir when there seems to be so much bad.

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