Trees, Eyes and Illness The saddest thing about betrayal is it never comes from your enemy but the people you are closest to. The Kite Runner is a remarkable novel that teaches people how a simple thing could haunt you for the rest of your life. It shows how a friendship could be destroyed by a lie or just simply not speaking up. It displays how discrimination and bullying is still alive in the world and how it is a major problem. How running from your problems doesn’t always have a great outcome. And how the truth always finds a way to come out. This novel has a great deal of motifs and foreshadowing that all have important meanings and ties to explaining parts of the novel. By employing trees, eyes, and illness as motifs, Khaled Hosseini, …show more content…
A huge event that supports this theme is when Hassan is being raped. Amir recalls this, “I could see the fear creeping into Hassan’s eyes,” (Hosseini 72). Before the author reveals what is happening to Hassan, Amir has a flashback to a time when it was the last month of the muslim calendar and they would kill a sheep. He remembers the poor sheep's eyes that he says, “I watch because of that look of acceptance in the animal’s eyes.” (Hosseini 76). He sees this same look in Hassan's eyes. This soon caused Amir to stop watching and he tries to decide what to do and because he was a coward, he betrayed Hassan and ran without telling anyone what was happening to Hassan. Another time betrayal was portrayed was when he broke his promise with Sohrab. Amir describes Sohrab’s reaction as, “His voice was breaking, tears pooling in his eyes.” (Hosseini 341). Amir was finally getting close with Sohrab and then, Amir breaks his promise causing Sohrab to feel as if Amir betrayed him. When Amir finds another way to bring him to America Sohrab is no longer excited and when he arrives in America he doesn’t speak at