Throughout Khaled Hosseini’s novel, The Kite Runner, there are muliptle scenes where the reader witnesses racial tension. The Hazara and the Pashtuns are constently fighting throught the novel. A friendship like Amir and Hassana was very unlikey. In the begining of the novel the reader views Amir and Hassan’s friendship as a normal childhood friendship. But as the novel progreses, the children of the neighborhood such as Assef begin to make Amir feel as if he should be ashamed of their freindship because he is a Pashtun and Hassan is a Hazara. For example, when Amir and Hazan head up to he hill with the pomogranate tree to read from their favorite book, Assef stops them and threatens to beat Amir up for treating Hassan as a friend and not