Baba had another son, that had died not too long before Amir had arrived in Pakistan. In fact, he had spent his childhood playing with this boy. His name was Hassan. He was murdered by the government for staying in a upper-class house.
Rahim Khan then begins to reveal that Ali was once married before he was married to Hassan’s mother and that he left that woman childless, but once she remarried she had three daughters. This fact implies that Ali was infertile and there was no possible way that he had fathered Hassan. Amir responded with disbelief: “He and Sanaubar had Hassan, didn’t they?” (Hosseini p.222). Amir goes to the conclusion that Baba must have fathered
Also, Baba wasn’t the one that decided for Ali and Hassan to leave, it was Ali. Ali knew Amir’s motif and he understood and for that reason Ali decided it was time for he and Hassan to go. As the car pulls away it was the last time Baba would see Ali and Hassan ever again. Baba didn’t grasp why they were gone forever. He just lost his brother forever.
Amir returns to Kabul to find Sohrab, but is met by Assef, and is consequently beaten. This event absolves Amir of his guilt that stems from Hassan’s rape 26 years earlier, by liberating Sohrab from the grips the Taliban had on him. Other moments of crises: (Ch4) Baba is presented with Amir’s first short story and refuses to read it, though Rahim and Hassan enjoy it, encouraging him (Ch5) Assef threatens Amir and Hassan defends him. Amir is left fighting for his fathers affection when Baba gifts Hassan a plastic surgeon to fix his cleft lip.
Amir watched Hassan get raped and didn’t say a word about it, therefore, Amir feels partially responsible. Throughout The Kite Runner Amir moves on with his life until Rahim Khan calls. Rahim calls to ask Amir back to Kabul to retrieve Hassan’s long lost baby after Hassan’s death. “My suspicions had been right all those years. He knew about Assef, the kite, the money, the watch with the lightning bolt hands.
However, Amir’s selfish ambition of proving his worth to this dad resisted his urge to try to help Hassan as he wants to able to take the kite home safely. Moreover, Amir presumes that his betrayal towards Hassan is like a curse in his life since he will not be able to forgive himself for this deception or free himself from the guilt that has taken over his
He had to make his own life choices, and he was even married, a little before Baba died. Even though America grew on him, Amir still loved Afghanistan, his home country. His love for Hassan showed when he went back to wretched Afghanistan and he rescued Hassan’s son Sohrab, who was an orphan because Hassan and his wife were killed in Afghanistan. When he visited Afghanistan he drew up great valor and fought one of his enemies from when he was a kid. Although he suffered many, many injuries he still showed his love for a helpless, suffering kid.
[Amir] had betrayed him and yet he was rescuing me once again, maybe for the last time" (Hosseini 111). Even though Hassan is framed guilty of the accusation, Amir’s father still forgives Hassan which shocks Amir as he feels that is father loves Hassan more than his own son. After Amir had been married and finished college in America, Baba dies of lung cancer, and Amir begins to reflect on Baba’s life and words. He wonders if he would ever become like his father, and he thinks about the great love Baba showed towards Hassan. Amir feels guilty that he never showed his gratitude to his devoted friend whom not once tried to blame Amir for anything wrong he’s done.
Ali the Hazara was adopted by Baba’s father when Ali’s parents died. Because of this Ali and Baba grew up together like siblings. In a very similar circumstance, since Ali and Baba were already close, their kids Hassan and Amir also had the opportunity to grow up together. In both situations, Ali and Hassan remain humble as well as loyal to their counterparts, doing anything they ask or need. An important part of their relationships is the political situation in Afghanistan.
Baba and Ali were inseparable so when they grew up Baba took Ali as his servant. Ali as well had a son named Hassan. Right after his birth Ali’s wife Sanaubar, ran away with dancing performers. Amir and Hassan became best friends till one day the dully Assef, raped Hassan and changed all their lives as well as the war that occurred in Afghanistan. Amir’s most significant redemption is when he saw Hassan was getting rape by Assef, and how he approaches the situation by trying to avoid Hassan to any circumstance.
Amir’s desire to win Baba’s love subsequently motivates him to not intervene with Hassan’s rape. Baba’s treatment towards Amir revolves around his own feeling of guilt since he cannot acknowledge Hassan as his son. In turn Baba tends to be hard on Amir and displays his love for Hassan indirectly. He does so by bringing Hassan along when he takes Amir out as well as paying for Hassan’s lip surgery for his birthday. Later in the story readers are able to view an openly loving relationship between father, Hassan and Sohrab.
Finally when he thought he couldn’t take the guilt anymore, he blames Hassan for stealing money from him and forces him out of baba’s house. Although he never sees Hassan again, he does not forget the terrible sins he committed. After years of holding the guilt of his doings, Amir sets out to seek for redemption. Amir goes back to where it all started, Kabul, to find Hassan’s son Sohrab.
His backfired attempt to establish an unbiased view towards both Amir and Hassan causes discrimination towards Amir. It enacts Amir's jealousy and compels him to betray Hassan as a kid. Amir and Hassan lived together as Hassan accompanying Amir as his “servant” while Hassan cared for and loved Amir as his friend. Due to the Afghan qualities and "the socially legitimate half, the half that represented the riches he had inherited and the sin-with-impunity privileges that came with them," Baba has no other choice other than acceptances to lie to Amir and Hassan (Hosseini page #301). Amir would thrive to have a loving father to support him.
was wealthy and respected. In California, he earns low wages working at a gas station. Amir makes a particularly ironic comment, remarking that some of the homes he sees make Baba’s house in Kabul look like a servant’s hut. In the past, Ali and Hassan were the servants, and Baba was the master. Now Baba is more like a servant himself.
In a situation similar to Amir’s, yet with a more positive ending, Baba grew up with Ali, the household servant and Hassan’s father. After a series of unfortunate events Ali decides to take Hassan and leave the house, which in turn left Baba pleading for them to return. Watching Ali leave must have been excruciating. Even more painful because his son left with him as well. Especially when Baba knew Hassan had no idea of his real identity.
