Friendship plays an important role in everyone’s life. But how sure can one be that their friend will be able to overlook their differences and maintain a special bond? Today this paper will show how differences can lead to cracks in friendships, specially when those differences take the form of superiority in some sense. If one is superior to the other, he/she can use that to make the other feel more secure. However, what if that is not done? What if the superiority takes the form of a curse instead of a blessing to the bond?
As said by Euripides, “Friends show their love in times of trouble not in times of happiness.”. If Amir considered Hassan his true friend, he would have taken some action when he saw Hassan getting raped by Aseef in
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He was not ready to take a few hits and protect Hassan who had helped him multiple times in the past. Even after the incident, Amir tries to avoid contact with Hassan as he will be reminded of how much of a coward he was. He will be reminded of how he could not help Hassan the one time he needed help even after the multiple Hassan had helped him in his times of need. We can also see Hassan’s love for Amir when Hassan says “For you a thousand times over”. He also chooses to get raped by Aseef and get Amir’s kite even though he could leave unharmed, but without the kite. He is afraid that Amir will be dissappointed with himand their friendship might come to an …show more content…
Aude is a black woman who was subjected to racist jokes all throughout her life. From the time her friend’s cousin made fun of her traits to the time when someone screamed ‘Ku Klux Klan’ every time she took a step. She never bothered to ask any of her friends to stop as she thought it would make her look weak. However this is the reason she eventually lost so many of her friends. One time when she told her friend that she was cheerleader, her friend thought she was lying because ‘a black woman cant be a cheerleader.’ After years of hearing racist jokes and letting them go despite of how hurt she felt, Aude decided to pick her battles and call people out when she heard a racist remark or comment.
Once when she attended a reunion party, one her former classmates screamed “Nigga, sale négress!” which translates to dirty nigress. This time she snapped back at him. She was much more successful than this classmate who was still jobless and was living in his parent’s house. Had she acted like this more often, she wouldn’t have to face all the racism and would be left with friends who were not as insensitive as the