Amir's Relationship With Hassan Character Analysis

Amir is constantly changing throughout the book due to environmental and personal factors. The most inspiring moment for change comes when Rahim Khan invites him to Afghanistan to make things right with Hassan and Amir ends up taking Sohrab home. Amir’s relationship with his father, Baba, had a significant impact on Amir. Due to their severely complex relationship, Amir began to feel worthless. This is evident in Baba’s and Amir’s relationship. Baba is a judgemental and insensitive character throughout the story. He doesn’t understand Amir, as a normal father would. This causes the relationship to be strained as a child. This is proven when Baba can be heard talking to Rahim Khan, about his confusion with Amir and why his interests are …show more content…
Hassan’s role as a faithful and most dignified friend of Amir’s proves to influence Amir’s values and role in the story quite a bit. Throughout Amir’s childhood, Hassan proves loyal to Amir many times. “But he never told on me. Never told that the mirror, like shooting walnuts at the neighbor’s dog, was always my idea.” This shows just how loyal Hassan was to Amir, even when he put his own well-being at stake. Amir came first. Through his interaction with Hassan, Amir becomes someone who is more inclined to show loyalty and dedication to his friends, even though sometimes he fails to do so. Even to the one who taught him. The impact of Hassan’s loyalty isn’t just because he was a close friend. Hassan’s impact was due to the fact that he was a Hazara and Amir was a pashtun. In most cases, and in this case, the Pashtun would believe that he, in nature, is better than the Hazara. The Hazara would usually believe that the Pashtun is one of higher class than he is and deserves to be shown the utmost respect. But, that is not the reason that Hassan showed so much loyalty to Amir. He showed loyalty because he saw something in Amir that his father didn’t. Hassan loved Amir and to Hassan, Amir was his best friend. That’s why he deserved all the respect and love in the world. Because without Amir, Hassan didn’t have a friend. Hassan was of lower class and would always be that way. He would always be discriminated because of his roots and …show more content…
Rahim was one of Baba’s business partners and close friends, which subjected him to be at their house quite often. Amir quickly became familiar with him. Unlike Baba, Rahim was always interested in whatever Amir was doing, he was the one who influenced Amir to become a writer. Rahim didn’t believe that what Amir was interested in was unmanly or feminine. He just thought it was different. It was this mindset that influenced Amir to be so okay with who he is because without it, he would only have Baba’s opinion on his actions, and we know what those are. He’d shown him the love that he was missing all those years in his childhood. “I’d always thought of him as Baba’s quiet alter ego, my writing mentor, my pal, the one who never forgot to bring me a souvenir, a saughat.” Rahim Khan was always interesting in Amir’s writing. He gave Amir his first journal to write down his stories in. “As always, it was Rahim Khan who rescued me. He held out his hand and favoured me with a smile that had nothing feigned about it. ‘May I have it, Amir jan? I would very much like to read it.” Using the phrase as always, this shows how throughout his childhood, Amir sees Rahim Khan in some of the most fatherly ways possible. He sees him showing love to Amir even when he doesn’t believe it, and in the end he offers a way for Amir to escape all the grief and to finally atone to his sins. Amir describes Rahim’s smile