How does betrayal affect people and their actions? Macbeth by William Shakespeare and The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini show how betrayal can make somebody think more carefully about what choices they decide to make and how they feel about events that happened in the past. Amir in The Kite Runner betrayed his friend by not telling anybody about something horrible that happened in an alleyway, and in Shakespeare’s play, Macbeth betrayed the king by killing him while he slept. Acts of betrayal from the past can make a person much more cautious of what they share with others, out of fear of judgement. In The Kite Runner, Amir did not tell his fiancée, Soraya, about what happened in alleyway when he was younger, “I envied her. Her secret was
