I’ve chosen the scene where Assef sexually assaults Hassan, and Amir stands by and watches. I’ve chosen this scene because out of every scene in the book I feel as if the assault scene is the most impactful for the rest of the book. I felt like changing this scene would completely change the story, and it would’ve been led in a totally different direction for the book. Pg 71-77 is where the scene takes place. I heard the voices again, louder this time than the last, coming from one of the alleys. I crept closer to the mouth of that alley. Held my breath. Peeked slowly around the corner. Hassan was standing at the blind end of the alley in a defensive stance towards...Assef. My heart dropped, I turned back and put my back against the material the building was made of. For the longest time, silence, just breathing, my breathing, my heartbeat, everything that made me human was …show more content…
I looked at the fruit, and it was rather squishy, and then I looked at Hassan. After a while he finally noticed at looked at me and asked why I was staring at him, I looked back at the fruit and threw it at Hassan’s face. It was funny to see it explode on his face, “what was that for?” he said rather quietly which surprised me, so I grabbed another pomegranate from the tree and handed it to him, “here throw it at me” “what? No.” “why not?” “because...I..Just can’t” “c’mon Hassan throw the pomegranate already”. Hassan stared at the fruit and looked back at me and hesitantly winded his arm up and threw the pomegranate at me. We both laughed as the fruits juices flowed out of my hair onto my face, we both started picking up the pomegranates and threw them at each other until it got dark and we got so tired we couldn’t do it anymore. Baba wasn’t very happy about our clothes that night, but Ali thought we looked
I have two things to tell you. One: I 'm not gay. There hasn 't been a day in my life where I have thought about sucking Cody Manson 's dick, or getting fucked in the ass by Cody Manson, or making out with Cody Manson. Two: I 'm a really shitty liar.
Due to making the wrong choice, the guilt of witnessing Hassan’s rape and not being able to do anything to prevent the rape from commencing causes Amir to suffer from heartache. Guilt is present when Amir realizes that Hassan knew that he was in the alley. Even though Amir did not help Hassan when he was in trouble, Hassan still helps prevent Amir from getting in trouble; by accepting the lie that he stole the money from Amir. This is shown in the following
Amir fails to protect Hassan. Amir put his needs before Hassan’s needs. As a consequence of Amir’s failure, Hassan is raped by Assef. Amir feels his betrayal as guilt for what he allows to happen.
Wayne Dyer, an American philosopher, once said, “Problems in relationships occur because each person is concentrating on what is missing in the other person.” This is the protagonist 's main source of conflict in the book, the Kite Runner, written by Khaled Hosseini. Amir and Hassan appeared to have a brotherly friendship. Even though they grew up together, it was intriguing how Hassan develops a brotherly bond with Amir while Amir does not reciprocate the love. By concentrating on what is missing in Hassan, it causes Amir to become separated from the relationship because Amir values social class over his friendship with Hassan, and stems from his jealousy that comes from an idea that Baba favors Hassan.
He would do anything for Hassan to make up for his childhood. After finding Sohrab, Amir comes face to face with Assef, Hassan 's rapist. “Another rib snapped, this time lower. What was so funny was that, for the first time since the winter of 1975, I felt at peace. I laughed because I saw that, in some hidden nook in the corner of my mind, I’d even been looking forward to this…
In the story, Amir feels guilty for being a bystander of Hassan’s sexual assault. The guilt eats him alive, so he feels the need to be punished by Hassan or just in general for his cowardice. One day, when he and Hassan are hanging out under a pomegranate tree nearby, Amir “[hit’s] [Hassan] with [a] pomegranate, in the shoulder…” The juice from the pomegranate “splattered [Amir’s] face.” Amir shouts: "Hit me back… Hit me back, goddamn you!"
Because he protected Amir earlier and threatened to take Assef’s eye out, Assef seeks Hassan out and punishes him. Amir just sits and watches, but he is only eleven years old. Like in the earlier violent scene, Hassan remains courageous throughout the entire ordeal and continues to remain loyal to Amir. Even before the rape actually took place, Hassan defends Amir and states, ‘“Amir agha won the tournament and I ran this kite for him. I ran it fairly.
was afraid of Assef and what he would do to me. I was afraid of getting hurt” (Hosseini 77). Amir proves to be a coward and an unloyal friend when he leaves Hassan to the bullies. This event affects Amir’s future throughout the book because when the time came, he showed his true colors. He settled on being a coward because he was too afraid of what Assef might have done to him also.
“Assef gritted his teeth. ‘Put it down, you motherless Hazara.’ Please leave us be, Agha’ Hassan said’” (Hosseini, 41). This scene is an example of how daring Hassan is because he is threatening someone who could easily hurt him, but he’s doing it because he feels as if he has no choice, and he believes he needs to protect not only himself but his friend, Amir.
For the reason that Hassan was raped, Amir felt guilty and began regretting his actions. Every time Amir would do something mean towards Hassan, he felt guilty after the action. “‘Let’s see. ‘Imbecile.’
Assef had the chance to beat him up like he said he was going to but didn't, he used rape as a power tactic to enforce fear instead. Assef now has complete control over Hassan. He used fear to take over Hassan. Assef believed that rape would be more lasting than just another beating, and he was right. The rape changed many things after.
Can Amir be good again… ? This is the exact question that has been continuously running through my mind with each turn of the page in The Kite Runner, though before hand, I found myself wondering what aspects, qualities, or characteristics have ever defined Amir as “good” in the first place? Furthermore, by the term, “good”, do our minds think of “good” as in only benefiting thyself, or benefiting those of the world around us? Before one can determine if Amir can be good again, these questions that linger in the depths of our mind must be brought to the surface of reality and acknowledged. As far as the reader knows, Hassan and Amir both started life at the same place, but when one analyzes the characters personal characteristics, they foil each other in such a way that Hassan seems to have a sole purpose of exposing the flaws of Amir throughout their childhood, leaving an everlasting impact on the reader's thoughts, in which it is hard for the reader to detect the good in Amir when there seems to be so much bad.
Amir first realizes the depth of his cowardice as he watches Assef rape Hassan in the alley and thinks, “I could step in into that alley, stand up for Hassan—the way he stood up for me all those times in the past—and accept whatever happened to me. Or I could run” (Hosseini 77). He has an epiphany that he could choose to be brave and selfless like Hassan and step up to Assef regardless of any physical consequences. However, despite his understanding that the noble choice would be to interfere and stop Assef, Amir is unable to act on it because his fear of Assef overwhelms him. The guilt that consumes Amir in the weeks following Hassan’s rape indicates that he understands the extent of his selfish behavior and needs to resolve it before he can forgive himself.
Baba forgave him, but Ali decided to leave anyhow. This act was cowardly of Amir. He decided that he wanted to get rid of Hassan instead of facing his problem and express his regret to Hassan. In 1981 Amir and Baba fled from Afghanistan and went living in the
In the novel The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini, there are some very intriguing comparisons and stark differentiations between the father and son, Hassan and Sohrab. The two are both victims of sexual abuse, they both save Amir from harm, and yet their childhoods and personalities are very different. Hassan and Sohrab are sexually abused by the same man, Assef. When Hassan and Amir compete together in the kite flying tournament, everything starts out perfectly. They work together as a team and manage to cut everyone else’s kites out of the sky.