They’ll have to change your nickname from Assef the Ear Eater’ to ‘One-eyed Assef.” This quote proves that Hassan is loyal to Amir because Hassan could 've just ran off or tried to be one of the bullies.
During this scene Hassan is confronted by Assef and a couple his friends. Assef demanded that Hassan give him the kite that Amir had won in the kite competition. Assef taunts Hassan, but Hassan does not back down. As Amir watched from around the corner, Assef and his friends overpowered Hassan and Assef violated him. Amir tried to justify not intervening in his head, but he knew that his reasons were only excuses.
Assef had promised to get back at the boys for what they had done. He had the chance to fight Amir before, but “Assef had backed down, promised that in the end he’d get us both down. He’d kept his promise with Hassan. Now it was my turn” (Hosseini 286). Assef had made a threat to the boys that he would fight them sooner or later, he kept his word with Hassan by killing him and he now had to deal with Amir.
In the end, Amir completes his journey by acting as the kite runner for Sohrab. Kite running is symbolic of his loyalty, his journey of redemption but mainly of unconditional
What appears to be coincidence in The Kite Runner,is in fact destiny unfolding, emphasizing the novel’s major themes. First of all,Assef and Amir’s reunion highlights Amir’s coming of age as well as the theme of redemption. Secondly, the fact that Sohrab saves the day with his slingshot reveals the parent-child relationship between him and Hassan. It also demonstrates Assef’s retribution.
Amir, frightened and nervous, learns that the official is none other than Assef, the bully who had assaulted Hassan in the alley all those years ago. Assef promises to hand Sohrab over if and only if Amir can beat him in a fistfight. The fight starts badly for Amir, who is unarmed and weak. However, Amir, who can feel his ribs breaking, begins to laugh. He laughs and laughs and laughs as Assef throws down punches and kicks.
“Assef gritted his teeth. ‘Put it down, you motherless Hazara.’ Please leave us be, Agha’ Hassan said’” (Hosseini, 41). This scene is an example of how daring Hassan is because he is threatening someone who could easily hurt him, but he’s doing it because he feels as if he has no choice, and he believes he needs to protect not only himself but his friend, Amir.
He tries to scare Amir, which he knows will be easy because Amir was always a coward. “I could have you arrested for treason, have you shot for it even. Does that frighten you” (278). On several occasions Assef refers to the people that he sees as being beneath him as animals. He calls Hassan both a dog and a donkey in the span of just a few pages.
Hassan held the slingshot pointed directly at Assef's face” (page number). Hassan showed courage in the face of danger, risked being attacked by Assef, and remains loyal to Amir throughout the ordeal. Despite knowing what Assef was capable of and his reputation as the neighborhood bully, Hassan protected his friend. This incident changed Amir’s and Hassan’s friendship
He cannot make up his actions to Hassan, as he was executed in the street by the Taliban. So, by the request of Rahim Khan, Amir returns to the Taliban-controlled Kabul to save Hassan’s son, Sohrab. This correction of past sins represents a full circle of redemption, as in order to save Sohrab, Hassan has to fight Assef, who had previously bullied and sexually harassed Hassan, and Sohrab, like his father before him, fires a slingshot at Assef, injuring him badly: “The slingshot made a thwiiiit sound when Sohrab released the cup. Then Assef was screaming. He put his hand where his left eye had been just moments ago.
The kite represents Amir’s happiness because it connects him with Baba, this is very important for Amir because Baba believes his son is a coward who isn’t strong enough to stand up for himself. Although to impress Baba Amir lets Hassan get raped by Assef so he can bring home the blue kite, he states, “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.” Amir has just witnessed Assef rape Hassan and instead of intervening he runs away. Amir says he aspired to cowardice because he believed that what he did was worse than cowardice, he feared that by intervening Assef would hurt him and that was the reason he ran.
Amir is the villain of The Kite Runner because he is greedy for Baba’s love, this leads to his disloyalty to Hassan and demonstrates his cowards because of his feelings of his guilt. Amir, although living a luxurious life feels something is missing, and it’s his father’s approval, he would do anything for it. After winning the kite tournament went to search for Hassan to see him surrounded by Assef and his two friends but, “Behind him, sitting on piles, of scraps and rubble, was the blue kite. [His] key to Baba’s heart” (71). All he cared about was the kite he cut in the tournament, he even sacrificed his best friend just for his father’s love.
One of the many aspects that Hosseini added to his novel is the symbol of the kite. Amir takes this kite as a symbol of happiness and also of guilt according to (http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/the-kite-runner/themes.html) (1). Amir goes through a hard time when he is a witness of Hassan’s dignity being taken. Amir at the moment does nothing about it because he feels like it would take all attention away from him by Baba. Baba, being a champion kite flyer feels extremely proud of his son because Amir is following his
To begin, in Khaled Hosseini’s book, “The Kite Runner,” the main character is a boy named Amir. As the story progresses, Amir turns out to be an extremely intelligent man, and also deceitful to his loyal friend, Hassan. Hassan has defended Amir in many instances. For example, he protects him from a bully Assef with a slingshot. Hassan also will take the blame for Amir.
“The disastrous military events which have happened during the past fortnight have not come to me with any sense of surprise.” (Churchill) When we look back at what occurred during the Second World War, we find many battles and fighting over most of Western Europe. One of the battles that receives a fair amount of discussion is the Battle of Britain during 1940. This battle in particular is very interesting because of the way that it was carried out. The British won due to the failures by the Germans and the advances that Britain ended up having over the Germans.
