The Kite Runner Essay On Betrayal

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Would you ever stay loyal to someone who constantly betrayed you? Would you consider someone who betrayed you to be your best friend? Amir jan and Hassan grew up together as children in Kabul, Afghanistan. Amir was on the more richer and wealthier side than most kids. Hassan and his father Ali were Amir and Baba’s servants. Baba was Amir’s father. Amir wanted to consider Hassan as a friend but since of Hassan’s decent, he was scared what people would think. Although to Hassan, there was nothing that he wouldn’t do for Amir. One night Hassan had gotten trapped in an alley and bullies came and started harassing him. Amir peeked around the corner and didn’t help Hassan and he watched them bully Hassan to the point where one of them started to …show more content…
Baba forgave Hassan from “taking them” but Ali said that since that happened they had to leave. A war broke out in Afghanistan and Baba and Amir had left with others to come to America. Amir had gotten married out there and wrote poetry. 30 to 40 years later, he returned to Afghanistan to see a dying friend, Rahim Khan, and redeem himself of his guilt for Hassan.His friend had told him after all these years that Hassan was his half-brother. When he had asked where Hassan was, his friend told Amir it is too late because Hassan was shot and killed by the Taliban but Hassan had a son. So Amir is out to find Hassan’s son.On the journey to find the son,he stopped to rest in a friend’s house and when he told him his story of his journey, it was hard and painful for him to tell them all, “‘He was my half brother’” (Hosseini 237). The scene in which Amir is telling Wahid about his quest to find Hassan’s son in Khaled Hosseini’s novel, The Kite Runner, is important because Hosseini uses it to establish lies are obstacles that harm one's conscious by making them not able to communicate with everyone through Amir’s constant guilt about what he let happen to Hassan the night he was

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