Amir's 'Risk Factors In The Kite Runner'

Amir faced risk factors at the individual, family, and societal levels. For the individual level, there were two risk factors, Amir keeping quiet during and after his best friend Hassan got raped and then sneaking his watch under Hassan’s pillow. For the first part, Amir chose to keep quiet because he didn’t know what he could have done for Hassan in his situation and he was afraid he also would get hurt. He didn’t want to mention anything after because he didn’t want Hassan thinking of him as a bad friend and coward. He was ashamed he didn’t step up and help Hassan which led him to his decision that if his father Baba found Hassan stealing that he would be forced to make them leave. Amir came up with that decision because he knew that if he …show more content…
The internal promotive factors that Amir had were cognitive and social-emotional competence, positive values, and a positive identity. For cognitive and social-emotional competence, Amir showed that he committed to realistic, productive goals and activities. A realistic, productive goal that Amir was working on was his writing. A realistic activity would be the activity he partakes in with Hassan of kite fighting. Another behavior similar to the realistic goals and activities would be that Amir identified productive interests and was seeking to excel. The last factor under cognitive and social-emotional competence is that he experienced positive emotions. A positive emotion that Amir experienced was joy and he expressed this emotion while he was with Hassan and kite fighting. For the positive values, Amir showed the trait of caring. Although it does not show throughout the movie, we could see that he showed great concern for the people around him and during the events that occurred like Hassan being raped. For positive identity, Amir had a positive view for his future. Amir knew he wanted to be a writer and was optimistic that he would be a writer some …show more content…
Protective internal factors were commitment to learning and social competencies. For commitment to learning, Amir had achievement motivation. He was motivated to become a writer. For social competencies, Amir had interpersonal competence, resistance skills, and peaceful conflict resolution. For interpersonal competence, he had empathy and sensitivity. For resistance skills, although there was no kind of negative peer pressure such as drugs, there were bullies like Assef. For peaceful conflict resolution, Amir was not a violent child but only quietly