Betrayal is ultimately harmful to the betrayer, and those betrayed alike. The betrayer often finds himself consumed with guilt, or facing some karmic justice. The FIFA scandal is a contemporary example of betrayal, with corruption and bribery evident at the highest levels. Similarly in literature, we see main characters suffering the negative consequences of their acts of betrayal clearly in The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini and Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe. In the summer of 2015, scandalous reports rocked the soccer world rocked with reports of corruption and bribery at the top levels of one of the world's premier soccer associations: FIFA. Fourteen current and past FIFA officials were indicted for “rampant, systemic, and deep rooted”(BBC) corruption. The betrayal of the players and fans however, ultimately had drastic consequences, with the Fourteen men pleading guilty to “racketeering conspiracy, wire fraud conspiracy and three counts of money laundering conspiracy” (BBC). For those fourteen FIFA officials, they thought they were lining their pockets, but in fact all they did was line the walls of jail cells, reputations and careers smeared forever. …show more content…
He spends the rest of his life thinking about and repenting for this one betrayal: “I became what I am today at the age of twelve, on a frigid overcast day in the winter of 1975… That was a long time ago, but it’s wrong about what they say about the past, about how you can bury it. Because the past claws its way out. Looking back, I realize I have been peeking into that deserted alley for the last 26 years” (Hosseini 1). This passage really articulates the power that one betrayal can have over a person’s life. For Amir, even though he got away scott free, the betrayal haunted and shaped his actions for nearly all his