Censorship In Khaled Hosseini's The Kite Runner

Why would someone allow their best friend be raped simply to win a kite fighting tournament? Amir, the main character in Khaled Hosseini’s novel, The Kite Runner, has always urned for his father’s love. He believes that if he wins a kite fighting tournament he will finally get the attention he has always desired. He wins the competition but it is also a special honor to find and retrieve the last opponent’s kite. The son of his family’s servant, Hassan, who was also childhood friends with Amir, runs after the kite along with many others. Hassan is able to find the kite but get’s trapped by Assef, a teenager known to do heinous things to younger children. Assef tells Hassan to hand over the kite or else. Unbeknownst to Hassan and Assef, Amir is watching the whole confrontation but doesn’t dare to intervene. Hassan refuses and is raped, while Amir is watching, by Assef while Amir flees. Amir had allowed his friend, who he later discovers is his own half brother get raped to try and earn his father’s approval. Amir’s father throws him a large party and Amir gets many gifts, which he doesn’t want because he feels it’s blood money. Amir and his father began to spend more time together and a relationship between the two finally begins to develop but Amir is still unhappy despite how he got everything he had wanted. Amir feels that everything he gained was at the cost of his friend and his newfound relationship …show more content…
Amir’s relationship with his father, although much improved, was only a result of him winning, had Amir lost, his father wouldn’t have hosted Amir’s party, “Baba (Amir’s Father) would have never thrown me a party like that if I hadn’t wont the tournament.” (Hosseini 226). This shows that Baba only wanted to have a son who had achieved something and didn’t sincerely care for Amir in the way Amir