In Khaled Hosseini’s novel, The Kite Runner, Hosseini portrays the dark downfall of Afghanistan through the eyes of a young Pashtun boy named Amir. The Kite runner brings the audience alongside Amir as he grows up, experiencing many life-changing events, ultimately rewriting his own unique character. Hosseini chooses to highlight the concept of betrayal and loyalty within his novel with characters such as Amir, for his actions of betrayal, Baba for his double-crossing history, and Hassan for his loyalty. By giving these characters such lively traits, Hosseini helps bring life to the story and helps the audience understand what is going through the mind of the characters with the consequences of their actions. To start, Amir’s development of …show more content…
Baba shows his true colors when he goes behind the back of his childhood friend and does the unthinkable as an Afghanistan man: “‘He and Sanaubar had Hassan, didn’t they?’ ‘No they didn’t’…‘I think you know who’”(Hosseini, 222). Baba was overtaken by his human desires of lust, causing him to double-cross his own childhood friend, Ali, by sleeping with his wife and getting her pregnant. This resulted in the destruction of Ali’s pride, Ali’s own beloved ‘son’ was the result of his wife having an affair with his childhood friend. Adding on to Baba’s dishonoring behavior, he also dishonored both of his sons by deceiving them: “ …I was learning Baba was a thief…the things he’d stolen had been sacred…the right to know I had a brother, from Hassan his identity…”(Hosseini, 225). In view of the fact, Baba hid the fact that Amir and Hassan were brothers to hide his past sinful acts of lust, Amir had the knowledge of his own brother stripped from him, and Hassan had his own identity removed from him at birth. As a result of Baba’s actions, the audience witnesses what some people are willing to do in order to satisfy their lustful desires and see what these lustful desires can cause for the future