Honesty In The Kite Runner

In the novel the Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini, two young boys with different views on life create an outlandish friendship. Amir, who is a rich, pompous boy has a servant named Hassan. They build a bond together, but Amir still treats Hassan as less than him even though they have a friendship. This, in turn, makes Amir worse of a friend to Hassan. Friendship comes easy for some and hard for others, in Amir’s case friendship becomes difficult. Loyalty, honesty, and kindness are all traits of a good friend, because Hassan represents these traits, he is a better friend than Amir. An integral part of friendships is having loyalty, Hassan's demonstrates loyalty more than Amir does making him a better friend. Loyalty is giving great support and allegiance to a person. Being loyal in a friendship binds you with the other person, but when only one person in a friendship is loyal, the bond breaks. Amir did not have …show more content…
Hassan has full trust in Amir, and complete honesty about everything. While Amir, felt the need to hide the truth and fake his friendship. Amir’s view on honesty is shown when Hosseini writes, “And that’s the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too”(Hosseini 55). Hassan only thought about the truth and telling Amir what he really felt, but Amir just told Hassan what he wanted to hear. Without honesty, friendships can not survive and thrive, and usually end up dying off. Another example of how Amir lies to Hassan and is dishonest shows up in Chapter Nine. After Amir’s thirteenth birthday party, he takes his gifts and plants them under Hassan’s mattress. He attempts to frame Hassan for stealing the gifts Amir put under his bed. Then, unexpectedly, Hassan takes himself accountable for stealing the gifts. This shows how Amir developed dishonesty to Hassan, but Hassan still remains loyal to