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What Makes A Person In The Kite Runner, By Khaled Hosseini

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Every person in the world is shaped by the people they are closes to. “The people you surround yourself with have a huge impact on your life. They can influence your thoughts, emotions, and behaviors in both positive and negative ways” according to (“Why It’s Important”). Depending on how someone was raised will shape how they act and treat other people. Khaled Hosseini creates Amir, the main character, as a fortunate person compared to others in his country. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini showcases how Amir’s character has been shaped by Hassan, Baba, and Sohrab. Amir was unable to treat Hassan as anything but a servant. As stated in the novel, “If I change my mind and asked for a bigger, fancier kite, Baba would buy it for me - but …show more content…

Hassan was only good enough when it was just the two of them. This relates to how Amir only would treat Hassan as his servant and would keep him separate from the rest of his life. “Amir’s disloyalty is brought into a …show more content…

Amir expressed during the story, “I was learning that Baba had been a thief and a thief is the worst kind because the things he’d stolen had been sacred from me, the right to know I had a brother, from Hassan his identity, and from Ali his honor” (Hosseini 225). Amir had just found out that Baba had an affair with Ali’s wife. Hassan was Baba’s son and he had kept this secret from both of them. It finally started to make sense to Amir why Baba treated Hassan so well. He kept everything equal between the two boys because Baba had two children and no one ever knew it. An outside source states, “As men face the truth about their - son bond, they will experience both pain and liberation” (Goldenberg). Amir faced a lot of pain when finding out that Baba had lied to him his entire life and now it was too late to do anything about it since Hassan and Baba were gone. Throughout Amir’s childhood, he always felt that Baba loved Hassan more than him, because they had a stronger

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Though Baba’s actions are morally questioned, he was not right to never acknowledge Hassan. Baba’s ongoing decision was a combination of saving his relationship with Amir, guilt from betraying Ali, and preserving his reputation, his choice ultimately leads to offending everyone involved. Baba is always criticizing Amir for not being a man, preferring reading over sports, getting

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Amir immediately felt guilty for Hassan dying. He believed he had been the cause, by forcing him out of the house when he was a child. He also understood why Baba treated Hassan like he was his own son. Amir was horrified of the way he had treated Hassan. He also found out that Hassan had a son and he was in danger.

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We get to know a lot about Amir, a young boy, and his father, Baba Throughout the story we see Baba’s gradual change in character, turning from the cold distant father he was to the loving and caring father Amir wanted him to be. Baba fills the hole inside himself that was dug by guilt in Afghanistan by learning to move on from his sins and build a relationship with his son in America. The loss of his wife, Sofia Akrami, created the hole. After her death and Amir’s birth, he felt such despair that he had an affair with his best friend, Ali’s, wife. This only created more guilt, as he impregnated her with Hassan.

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If Amir had known that Hassan was his brother, he could have understood why Baba treated Hassan as an equal to his himself. He may have stepped in and saved Hassan from Assef. This shows that secrets and lies, another reoccurring theme in the book, can significantly change the outcome of ones

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Amir would even argue that Baba treats Hassan better and with more love than he treats his own blood in Amir. So, to Amir, Baba is treating him cruelly by not showing him the love and affection that a young boy needs and deserves growing up. What is interesting about this situation is the cruelty that Amir is describing and is upset with actually stems from cruelty in Baba’s past. The plot in The Kite Runner takes a turn when it is revealed that Hassan is actually Baba’s real son, and the only reason that Baba and Ali (Hassan’s “father” who raises him and also is a servant for the family) cover this up is due to the natural cruelty of the class system in Afghanistan. Hassan’s mother is a Hazara, and in this time period, Hazaras were looked down upon and seen as inferior.

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Throughout the book, the struggles of Amir trying to redeem himself to Baba for murdering Amir’s mother, and the struggle to accept the guilt that came along with him witnessing Hassan’s rape and departure from his family were unbearable to Amir for a great length of his lifetime. In the book, Amir had always felt guilty for being the son that murdered his mother and always felt like he had to do something better to earn Baba’s attention. On page 19 he expresses his guilt by saying “because the truth of it was, I always felt like Baba hated me a little. And why not? After all, I had killed his beloved wife, his beautiful princess hadn’t I?

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In the novel, Amir was shaped and influenced by the other characters. Amir was influence by Sohrab because he helped him redeem himself. Hassan helped him realize that forgiving is a big part in life. Baba made him into the man he is in ways he thought were the best. The author, Khaled Hosseini, is showing us that everyone in our lives have shaped us into who we are today or who were gonna be in the

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When Amir learned of what his Baba did, he felt a kinship between them that he never knew they had: “As it turned out, Baba and I were more alike than I’d ever known. We had both betrayed people that would have given their lives for us” (226). This kinship and similarity only goes so far, though. As stated before, the way they reacted after the event that caused them so much guilt differed greatly, and showed the true character of each person. Amir grew up a very troubled child with many character flaws, cowardice not being the least among them.

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In Amir’s youth, he views his father, Baba, as a god and yearns for his approval. Because Baba is a large influence on him, Amir replicates Baba’s manipulative behaviors by training his friend, Hassan, to unconditionally

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Baba holds the secret that Hassan is his son to protect his social status in society, Amir hides Hassans rape and keeps it to himself and pretends it did not happen. Moreover, their best friends are their servants. In addition, both Amir and Baba show an act of kindness and generosity in the novel. Baba builds an orphanage, while Amir

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Amir, Baba’s son and the main character throughout The Kite Runner, betrays Hassan many times due to the fact of jealousy of the attention Hassan receives from Baba. First, when Amir tries to justify his actions he shows his motivations behind the betrayal. Amir states, “Maybe Hassan was the price I had to pay, the lamb I had to slay, to win Baba” (Hosseini 77). Amir craves Baba’s attention so much that

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(Hosseini, page no.18) .Amir takes his Baba’s affection toward Hassan-Baba’s servants’ son-in the wrong way for Hassan always showed a lot more similar qualities to Baba than Amir ever did. In an attempt to win his Baba’s

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In his mind, he believes that Baba will send Ali and Hassan away, and, as a result, he will finally gain some peace. To Amir’s surprise, Hassan confesses to stealing his gifts without hesitation symbolizing “Hassan’s final sacrifice for [him]” (105). At that moment, Amir realizes that Hassan knew of his betrayal, which added to his already guilty conscience. Hassan could have easily told Baba the truth and he would have believed him because”[everyone] knew that Hassan never lied”, which, in turn, would ruin Amir’s relationship with his father (105). He probably knew that Amir was unworthy of his sacrifice, that he was the “snake in the grass, the monster in the lake”, but he lied for Amir’s own benefit

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When Baba decides not to tell Amir and Hassan about their shared kinship they both lose the opportunity to have a brother. When they had a friendship they could’ve had a brotherhood. This changes Amir’s life the most because they’re are so many what-ifs about what would’ve happened if he had known. Would Amir have left Hassan in that alley that fateful day? Or would he have ran to protect his own?

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