How Does Hassan Use Forgiveness In The Kite Runner

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Many times in literature the idea of friendship can be brought up in novels. With these type of novels, there is sometimes a lesson involved with the story. Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner is one novel that incorporates the ideas of friendship and the lessons that come with it. The Kite Runner shows that while forgiveness is necessary, but challenging in all friendships Hassan remains loyal and very forgiving towards Amir throughout the novel, Hassan proves that in order to have a true friendship, one must be forgiving.

Throughout the novel, Baba always treats Hassan as more than just a Hazara. While Baba gives the attention Amir craved to Hassan, Amir becomes increasingly jealous and cannot bring himself to forgive Hassan for the accidental pain he is causing Amir to be in. Even when Amir and Baba were going to Jalalabad, Baba asks Amir if he would like Hassan to come along. Out of jealousy and the grudge he has against Hassan, Amir responds with, “He’s mareez” (Hosseini, 82) What Amir tells Baba is that Hassan is sick, this is to keep Hassan from coming along on the trip. Amir even proves why he said what he told Baba by saying, “ It should have been just the two of us- that was the way I wanted it” (Hosseini, 82). When Amir says how he wanted the trip to be it only

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Even when Amir would do something that hurt Hassan tremendously, he forgave him. Not only did Hassan forgive, but Hassan proves himself to be a loyal friend when Amir is about to get beat up, “Hassan held the slingshot pointed directly at Assef’s face” (Hosseini, 43) in the same chapter that Hassan stood up for Amir, Amir proves he is not a true friend, “But he’s not my friend! I almost blurted. He’s my servant!” (Hosseini, 41) The book shows an indirect relationship between the forgiveness each character gives and how they view their
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