“I dream that someday you will return to Kabul and revisit the land of our childhood. If you do, you will find an old faithful friend waiting for you” (Hosseini). Said by Hassan in a letter to Amir, Hassan was always very faithful to Amir, they had a friendship or bond like no other. In the novel The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini, he portrays a lot of themes throughout the reading, friendship being a known subject in the novel. The main character Amir has Hassan, a boy who works for Baba, Amir's father and later known to be Amir's half brother. The development of friendship in these characters are shown throughout the book, with the betrayal of a friend and the tension between one another.
Hassan was always devoted to Amir and sacrificed anything for him, but Amir was less so. For instance, Amir betrays many people in the novel in an effort to win over his father. Seeing that Baba always treated Hassan differently than Amir, not knowing that they were half brothers and that Baba is also Hassan's father. In the novel Amir states that Hassan has stolen this watch-- being faithful to Amir-- Hassan takes
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In the reading Baba was never described as an affectionate kind of person, their relationship changes gradually farther into the novel, as Amir and Hassan. After the attack that happens to Hassan the friendship between these boys collapses. Their friendship wasn’t going to be the same, we see that Hassan had never truly recovered from what had happened to him and Amir couldn’t come to terms with trying to bring back the friendship to life when Hassan tries to go back to being like they were. To conclude, the changes the characters go through with being the best of friends to refusing to reawaken the friendship that was there once before was shown and described in a way where you didn’t want the friendship to end and have Amir move on and move to America without