Hoseinni sets up a dichotomy between a rich, weak character, Amir and a poor, laudable character, Hassan. Amir is traveling across Afghanistan as an adult driven by a man who is surly and rude to him. They stop to stay with the driver’s brother one night. The brother lives in a small hut with a large family, no car or business like his brother. But he offers Amir, hospitality, and food which Amir accepts not realizing it means the family will go hungry that night and a bed that he refuses to take money for. Amir fails to realize the difficulty the family would suffer through just to feed a guest. This is because how he had lived most of his life. His family never had to worry about sleeping hungry or not having enough money to buy food. It
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Amir had always lived a carefree life where he never had to worry about work and money. Hassan, meanwhile, always had to worry about the money they had left and had to suppress his wants and desires, because he knows what his parents can afford and what they couldn’t. Even though, Hassan and Amir were best friends, Hassan still was the “servant” and the house worker. Although, they could forget for a temporary time about their financial status and their own lives, they still had to return to their normal lives and realize that they are not the same. Hassan, in the end, was facing poverty. This is the same case with “twenty-one percent of the Iraqi population [who, is currently living on less than $2 a day] while in Yemen, that number is more than 37 percent.” (Poverty in the Middle East. Khalid, Accessed 10/29/17) “Currently living on less than $2 a day” is a problem a number of people cannot imagine. Hassan was on the other side of the spectrum, those who face it every day. This poverty problem is growing every day. In fact “between 2010 and 2012, the percentage of the population in the region making less than $1.25 a day increased from 4.1 percent to 7.4 percent […] Yemen's poverty rate has increased from 42 percent of the population in 2009 to an even more alarming 54.5 percent in
Amir had always lived a carefree life where he never had to worry about work and money. Hassan, meanwhile, always had to worry about the money they had left and had to suppress his wants and desires, because he knows what his parents can afford and what they couldn’t. Even though, Hassan and Amir were best friends, Hassan still was the “servant” and the house worker. Although, they could forget for a temporary time about their financial status and their own lives, they still had to return to their normal lives and realize that they are not the same. Hassan, in the end, was facing poverty. This is the same case with “twenty-one percent of the Iraqi population [who, is currently living on less than $2 a day] while in Yemen, that number is more than 37 percent.” (Poverty in the Middle East. Khalid, Accessed 10/29/17) “Currently living on less than $2 a day” is a problem a number of people cannot imagine. Hassan was on the other side of the spectrum, those who face it every day. This poverty problem is growing every day. In fact “between 2010 and 2012, the percentage of the population in the region making less than $1.25 a day increased from 4.1 percent to 7.4 percent […] Yemen's poverty rate has increased from 42 percent of the population in 2009 to an even more alarming 54.5 percent in