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.
The words are blunt, unapologetic in nature, resonating with so much truth that it pierces Amir’s false happiness (Hosseini 133). For Amir, the kite brought only a false sense of freedom from his remorse. In reality, he was still entrenched in the battle for his father’s love, still trying to find a way to get all of his father’s attention. The kite-flying competition was an illusion, a dream that Amir could ever be his father’s only son. The reality that Hassan was Amir’s half-brother, and the equitable love that Baba gives them, serves as the anchor that keeps Amir from his own childhood dreams, the truth that Amir could never escape.
Amir lets Sohrab smiles again by running the kite for Sohrab just as Hassan ran his last kite for him half a century before. He pushes himself into a “servant’s” position. Through Amir’s self-sacrifice, hope for the future is restored. Amir can stand up for others and he is willing to sacrifice himself for protecting his family. He has forgiven himself due to his self-sacrifice, kite fighting reminds him of pleasure instead of pain in the end of the novel.
After the occurrence, Amir begins to grow farther and farther away from Hassan, too guilty to show him his face. Still too terrified to confront Hassan, Amir sets him up, making it appear that he stole from Amir’s father, Baba, and Hassan and his father, Hazara, Baba’s
When the kite running competition came around, Amir had made his father proud by winning first place. As a result, his father threw him a party. At the party was when Amir had made a decision that would haunt him do
Therefore I think Hassan knew he had let Amir know that he would always find a friend in Kabul. In doing that Hassan showed Amir that forgiving is important and never too late. The last character to influence Amir was Baba because he shaped Amir into the man he is. In the letter that Rahim Khan left for Amir when he arrived back in Pakistan in the hospital, he reads, “When he saw you , he saw himself.”
Amir selfishly decided he would rather have the coveted blue kite to bring back to Baba, which he hoped would fix his broken relationship with his father, rather than stepping in and preventing his
Amir learned from Rahim Khan that Hassan has a son and he needs Amir
Baba forgave him, but Ali decided to leave anyhow. This act was cowardly of Amir. He decided that he wanted to get rid of Hassan instead of facing his problem and express his regret to Hassan. In 1981 Amir and Baba fled from Afghanistan and went living in the
More than Baba himself, it was what he didn’t receive from him. He might have gotten a big house—in fact, the prettiest place in Kabul—but it was so big and so empty, a place without love and affection, not what we call home. In Amir's eyes, "the face of Afghanistan" was always by his side. Yet that wasn’t enough; he craved acceptance from his father and would do anything for it. He only had to win a kite-running tournament; he had been so close in the past years, but this year he was determined to get it—the win and Baba’s love.
Amir reflects on the experience by saying, “If I changed my mind and asked for a bigger and fancier kite, Baba would buy it for me--but then he’d buy it for Hassan too. Sometimes I wished he wouldn’t do that. Wished he’d let me be the favorite” (Hosseini 51). Amir lives the life that everyone
This action by Hassan makes Amir realize that Baba was right he couldn't stand up for himself from this point on Amir was determined to get his father to love him at any coast. Later on during a kite flying tournament Amir and Hassan fly a kite together and in the end win the tournament Hassan decides to run down the kite for amir. After some time passed Amir goes
Thus, elucidating how pursuing personal desires can create a strain in the relationships with loved ones. Nevertheless, due to many failed attempts to satisfy them in the past it is futile to waste effort. Additionally, before the kite tournament Amir clarifies his understanding that “winners won”. He believes that in order to completely satisfy Baba’s expectations and become the son he wants him to be, he must win the kite tournament through any means necessary. As a result, his relationship with Hassan is
The relationship between Amir and Hassan strengthens, with every defeated kite. Amir finally wins his way into Baba's heart, at least for the moment; then everything changes. After the last kite is brought down from the sky, Hassan goes to retrieve the kite for Amir with the parting words “‘For you a thousand times over!’”(Hosseini 67). When Hassan fails to return, Amir goes out in search of his friend. When he finally catches up to Hassan, he witnesses Hassan being raped by their nemesis Assef.
Amir’s father was not found of Amir but of Hassan Amir did not know Hassan was his brother. Amir always tried to impress baba. The way Hassan used to play and run after the kite Amir named him The Kite Runner. When baba died he still could face and talk to Hassan when he went to his home town he found out that the Taliban’s had killed Hassan and his wife and their son was in the orphan alone, Amir planned to adopt his son so that Hassan can forgive him and so that he can atone his sin. He always tried to be friends Hassan’s son but he missed his parents and was sad he took him home and treated him as his own son as Amir could not have one of his
