The Role That Amir In The Alley If Hassan Didn T Have The Kite

Would Amir have Intervened in the Alley if Hassan didn’t have the Kite?
In The Kite Runner by Khaled Hossein the main character, Amir, witnessed his best friend and servant, Hassan, be raped in an alleyway. Amir did nothing to stop it, didn’t intervene or speak up to help him, and that decision haunts Amir for the rest of his life. Amir has a tough relationship with Baba and he saw winning the kite race as a way to mend that relationship, it would be something that Baba was proud of him for, something they had in common. So when Amir was in that alley and Hassan had the kite, the thing to winning his fathers heart, he backed down, he ran away, to ensure that Hassan would keep the kite, but I wonder would Amir have stepped in if it wasn’t during

While Amir and Hassan grew up together and viewed each other as friends in a sense, Hossein builds upon this relationship in the beginning by showing how Amir doesn’t play with Hassan when others are around, and says multiple times that he doesn’t exactly view him as a friend. Amir was still conditioned from birth to view Hassan as beneath him. “...people called Hazaras mice-eating, flat-nosed, load-carrying donkeys. I had heard some of the kids in the neighborhood yell those names to Hassan.”pg 9 Whenever Hassan was out in public he was jeered at, yelled at, called names, and Amir witnessed that. He witnessed how nobody saw this as a problem, how nobody stepped in, because that was the socially acceptable way to treat Hazaras in that society, the society in which Amir lived for his entire childhood. The environment in which you live as a child has a big effect on how you grow as a person, and in Amir’s environment it was constantly reiterated that he was better than Hassan, so why should he risk something for someone who is only a servant? On page 28 Amir says, “That Hassan would grow up illiterate like Ali and most Hazaras had been decided the moment he had been born… after all, what use did a servant have for the written word?” Amir is abiding by society's social standards, he has started to think less of Hassan

Now he’s also Hassan’s dad but Amir didn't know that so there was a lot of jealousy when his servant got treated better than him by his own dad.“Hassan and I were skipping stones and Hassan made his stone skip eight times… Baba was there, watching, and he patted Hassan on the back. Even put his arm around his shoulder.”pg 14 Baba was never affectionate toward Amir, the two times he was included when the bombs came down when he was at work and he saw that Amir was alright, and when Amir won the Kite Race. However in that scene Baba did show affection, for no important reason, except it wasn’t to Amir, it was to Hassan, and Amir was jealous of that. So Amir started to make sure that Hassan couldn’t come with to things, even when Baba wanted him to. “He asked me to fetch Hassan too, but I lied and told him Hassan had the runs.”pg 13 On page 51 Amir says, “Baba would buy it for me---but then he would buy one for Hassan too. Sometimes I wished he wouldn’t do that. Wished he’d let me be the favorite.” Amir wishes he could be the favorite, not Hassan, because whether it’s true or not, in Amir’s eyes Hassan is Baba's favorite, and Amir hates him for that. “It wasn’t fair. Hassan hadn’t done anything to earn Baba’s affections; he’d just been born with a stupid harelip.”pg 46 That quote portrays Amir’s jealousy toward Hassan’s relationship with his