How Is Amir Presented In The Kite Runner

In the novel written by Khaled Housseini, The Kite Runner, many different languages are portrayed through the characters to show the three main ideas expressed. The novel is about a man named Amir, telling the story of his childhood and up until this point what he has learned about his mistakes. Amir lives with his father Baba, and his two servants Ali and Hassan. When he was young, his mother died giving birth to him. Baba and Amir’s relationship has always been a little strange. So when ever Amir is shown affection from Baba, it is rare. But, when ever Hassan, his servant, gets it, he is always mad, confused, and self conscious. So Amir tried to get rid of Hassan to receive Baba’s affection by framing Hassan for stealing and succeeded. Amir …show more content…
In the book, Hassan, Amir’s half brother, and Amir had entered into a kite flying tournament. Back then in Afghanistan, kite flying tournaments were the biggest thing to a child. And to Amir this could be a way to earn Baba’s respect because of their strange relationship between the two. Back when Baba was kid, he had won a kite flying tournament, and Baba had hoped Amir would do the same. Because of this, Amir had felt the pressure to win, and eventually did. Afterwords, Hassan had said he wanted to run the kite around the neighborhood. After a while, Amir went looking for Hassan to find him and the kite. When he did, he found him running into an alley with Assef and his posse. They began to talk bad about Hassan, call him names, tease him. Then, Assef had took Hassan and started to rape him. Amir was shocked at would just happened. While Amir was watching this, Amir had “one last chance to make a decision… [Amir] could stand up for Hassan the way he stood up for [Amir]” and in his final decision he ran” (Housseini 77). When Amir was watching what was happening to Hassan, he was fully conscious of what was going on. He knew that Hassan was getting raped and needed help. He was thinking to himself that he could step and and help him, like he had to Assef for Amir. But, in the end, he had decided to run. This is an example of how Amir betrayed Hassan because he knew that Hassan was getting raped and was thinking about helping him, but didn’t because he didn’t want to get hurt. Also, he had pretended he was looking for him after, took the kite and showed it off to Baba perfectly intact. After the incident, Amir was reflecting on why he had decided to run instead of helping out Hassan. He had thought to himself as a coward and was afraid of Assef and what he could do to Amir. Amir had said he aspired to cowardice. So the real reason he was