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Cowardice and Betrayal contradict Friendship ”The worst pain in the world goes beyond the physical. Even further beyond any other emotional pain one can feel. It is the betrayal of a friend.” – Heather Brewer. This brings us to the question what is betrayal? The answer to the question is,” Betrayal is probably the most devastating loss a person can experience.” (Monica A Frank). Friends are very important in life; life without friends is same as food without spices. True friends are those who will help you through thick and thin. There as false friends who are willing to betray you either for their own needs, wants or maybe they don’t want to be friends with you anymore. Also “when a friend betrays you or turns into your enemy this …show more content…

Third is when a person is betrayed by a close friend it produces a sense or feeling of worthlessness of having trusted an untrustworthy person. (Marshall D. Johnson)One effect of betrayal to the friendship is that the friendship is called into question. “I ran away because I was a Coward. I was afraid of Assef and what he would do to me. Was afraid of getting hurt” (Hossieni, 72) this is what Amir told himself when he was returning from the alley. One of the impacts on Amir and Hassan’s friendship; what that now the two of them started to ignore each other. The breakfast and the tea was ready before Amir came to the kitchen, the clothes were also ironed and ready. But one thing that was missing was Hassan. One day when Baba was planting trees in this garden Amir tried to talk to him and convince him to fire Ali and Hassan from their jobs. After hearing Amir’s request Baba was very angry and gave a last warning to Amir and told him not to tell him to do so again. The day after Amir’s birthday party, when Amir was opening his gifts the saw that some people gave him cash and Baba bought him a Swiss watch. Them Amir thought of making Hassan a thief by keeping the cash and the watch under Hassan’s mattress will make Amir’s plan of

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