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

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

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

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