Once Amir found Sohrab, he is not able to take him without a price, Assef wants to fight Amir for the boy. Assef became a leader of the Taliban and once he found that Hassan had a child, he wanted to take him. Amir fought Assef only because it was Assef’s way of keeping his promise and it was Amir’s way to gain redemption. Amir felt like it was time to redeem himself for his actions that night in the alley. In the alley Amir watched Hassan get raped by Assef, he did this because he wanted to show his power.
By leaving Hassan defenceless against Assef, Amir’s disloyalty and inability to stand up for his friend truly emphasises his cruel nature. Amir physically and mentally turns away from the rape. He justifies his decision to leave Hassan by saying “I actually aspired to cowardice because the alternative, the real reason I was running, was that Assef was right. Nothing was free in this world. Maybe Hassan was the price I had to pay, the lamb I had to slay, to win Baba.”
(Hosseini p.72). Once again Hassan proves his loyalty to Amir, even in the face of danger; Assef also verifies this fact when he responds “ a loyal Hazara. Loyal as a dog” (Hosseini p.72). Assef then proceeds to attack Hassan. He rapes Hassan as his two goons hold Hassan down.
Amir first realizes the depth of his cowardice as he watches Assef rape Hassan in the alley and thinks, “I could step in into that alley, stand up for Hassan—the way he stood up for me all those times in the past—and accept whatever happened to me. Or I could run” (Hosseini 77). He has an epiphany that he could choose to be brave and selfless like Hassan and step up to Assef regardless of any physical consequences. However, despite his understanding that the noble choice would be to interfere and stop Assef, Amir is unable to act on it because his fear of Assef overwhelms him. The guilt that consumes Amir in the weeks following Hassan’s rape indicates that he understands the extent of his selfish behavior and needs to resolve it before he can forgive himself.
For the reason that Hassan was raped, Amir felt guilty and began regretting his actions. Every time Amir would do something mean towards Hassan, he felt guilty after the action. “‘Let’s see. ‘Imbecile.’
Because he protected Amir earlier and threatened to take Assef’s eye out, Assef seeks Hassan out and punishes him. Amir just sits and watches, but he is only eleven years old. Like in the earlier violent scene, Hassan remains courageous throughout the entire ordeal and continues to remain loyal to Amir. Even before the rape actually took place, Hassan defends Amir and states, ‘“Amir agha won the tournament and I ran this kite for him. I ran it fairly.
Hassan’s foremost loyalty is to Amir, and it leads him to sacrifice himself to Assef’s assault for the sake of Amir’s relationship with Baba. Despite the opportunity to change Hassan’s fate, Amir stays silent in the face of brutality and justifies
He would do anything for Hassan to make up for his childhood. After finding Sohrab, Amir comes face to face with Assef, Hassan 's rapist. “Another rib snapped, this time lower. What was so funny was that, for the first time since the winter of 1975, I felt at peace. I laughed because I saw that, in some hidden nook in the corner of my mind, I’d even been looking forward to this…
Amir is haunted by the secret that he allowed his best friend and half-brother to be sexually assaulted to elevate himself in the eyes of his father. “One final opportunity to decide who I was going to be. 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.”
However, in the early section of the book, Amir does not show loyalty, true friendship, or help to his friend. One day, a bully named Assef and two other boys chased Hassan and Amir. Hassan ended up trapped in the alley by the three boys. The boys harass, and rape Hassan. Amir just watched; he did not do anything to help his friend.
The readers see that they have a unique friendship; Amir doesn’t call Hassan his friend, but always hangs out with him when they are alone. Hassan thinks of Amir as a brother, best friends who know each other in and out. The conflict of this book is that Amir witnessed Hassan getting raped, and did nothing to help him, or even told anyone to help Hassan. Hosseini uses this conflict and shows how it takes a toll on Amir and Hassan. The aftermath of Hassan’s rape was a tense relationship between Amir and Hassan; Amir started to drift away from Hassan, pretending he never witnessed Hassan's rape.
Amir fails to protect Hassan. Amir put his needs before Hassan’s needs. As a consequence of Amir’s failure, Hassan is raped by Assef. Amir feels his betrayal as guilt for what he allows to happen.
(Chapter 7, pg. 77) Amir, in this instance, struggles between deciding if Hassan was truly a friend of his, or rather, just a servant that plays with him at Amir’s convenience. He justifies at that moment betraying his friend, selfishly vindicating that this ought to be a sacrifice for Hassan being born into that social caste. Almost immediately after not intervening, Amir seriously regrets viewing Hassan as inferior during the rape as well as throughout their whole duration as children, seeing as Hassan did nothing to deserve such torture as he always been good to
In the novel, The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini, the plot is constructed in a circular structure. The structure of the novel emphasizes how big events can drastically change someone’s life; in addition Hosseini characterizes Amir in a morally ambiguous way, displaying how Amir matures as a person but fail to learn how to stand up for himself. allowing a person like Amir to redeem himself and in many ways fail to learn from his past mistakes. This circular structure of the story provides Amir an opportunity to redeem himself from the selfish and cruel ways he treats Hassan as a child.
Everyone remembers being asked in elementary school what they wanted to be when they grow up. Most people said the generic jobs, they wanted to be a teacher, actor, or professional athlete. Most high schoolers don’t even know what they want to be when they graduate, and many college students change their major halfway through college. Schools across the US are now making incoming high schoolers choose a major or “endorsement”, a choice that affects the rest of their classes throughout high school. Students shouldn’t have to choose their major for the rest of their lives the second they begin their high school career.
