Sacrifice In The Kite Runner

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Many people make sacrifices for love ones; Hassan and Amir are no exception to this. In the novel Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini, Hassan makes many sacrifices for Amir from standing up to bullies and lying for him. While it took Amir some time to start making sacrifices for Haasan he finally does from leaving his home in america, to rescue Sohrab (Hassan’s child).

Hassan’s love for his friend, half-brother is above and beyond leaps in bonds especially after the way Amir treated him when they were younger. A prime example is after the time hassan stood up for him in the alley amir is faced with the same challenge, “I stopped watching, turned away from the alley. Something warm was running down my wrist. I blinked, saw I was still biting
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There is a way to be good again, Rahim Khan had said on the phone just before hanging up. Said it in passing, almost as an afterthought. A way to be good again.” it was as he almost knew about everything that Amir has done to Hassan because he says “a way to be good again” as if he has done a lot of bad things in his life. Which leads him going back to pakistan. After arriving to Khan’s apartment khan tells him about Hassan’s death, and about his son that has been put in an offranage. Amir is to bring back Sohrab to the safe place they have for him. When Amir asks why me “I have a wife in America, a home, a career, and a family. Kabul is a dangerous place, you know that, and you'd have me risk everything for..." (221). Once he was done talking about the reasons he can't he finally decides to do it. After looking for awhile he finally finds Sohrab in a hotel parking lot where they talk and Sohrab talks about how he starting to forget what his parents look like when Amir gives him a picture of Hassan with Sohrab. Amir plans on adopting Sohrab even promising him he would never have to go back to an orphanage. Amir went to talk to someone in the embassy to see how he could adopt Sohrab where he find out he can't since he has no proof of his parents being dead or that he is Sohrab father’s half brother. The only way he ends up finding is

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