![]() ![]() He thinks that it will stop Baba from thinking that is not the perfect son. Not this time"Īmir thinks that if he wins the big kite fighting tournament it will solve the problems between him and Baba. "And maybe, just maybe I would be pardoned for killing my mother." "Show him once and for all that his son was worthy." This may be a clue as to the complication later on in the book, the other side of Hassan we can't see yet. Just Hassan."Īmir says that he sees some other face sometimes when he is looking at Hassan. "Then Hassan blinked and it was just him again. It shows the power which Amir has over Hassan, and the way he knows what he can do with that power. This is Amir when he and Hassan are talking about Hassan eating dirt if Amir told him to. Except now, he was the ant and I was holding the magnifying glass." "Kind of like when we used to play insect torture. "But Hassan was by far the greatest kite runner I had ever seen"Īlthough Amir sees Hassan as a servant and gets jealous of him he does have a lot of respect for his talents at kite running Baba treats Amir and Hassan equally, and Amir finds this unfair and becomes jealous, wishing Baba would show more affection towards him than Hassan. Wished he'd let me be the favouriteĪgain Amir's jealousy is shown in this quote. "Sometimes I wished he wouldn't do that. Kites were the one paper-thin slice of intersection between those spheres."Īmir finally has something he can talk with his father about that Baba approves of. "Baba and I lived in the same house but in different spheres of existence. "Because that was the winter Hassan stopped smiling" It wasn't fair."Īmir is jealous that Baba has got Hassan a surgeon to fix his cleft lip and sees it as unfair that he gets such a present when he has 'done nothing.' "I wished I too had a scar that would beget Baba's sympathy. This shows, again, that the cultural and political differences between the two boys cause a problem for Amir and in some ways cause him problems. "Why did I only play with Hassan when no one else was around?" " But he's not my friend! I almost blurted. "How can you call him your friend?" said by Assef about Hassan Shows the extreme view of some Pashtuns that the Hazara don't have a place in Afghanistan. Amir is obviously jealous that Hassan gets more affection from his father than him. Not at all."Īmir says this during the 'bloodless coup' when Ali had held Hassan close to comfort him. ![]() "Later, I would tell myself I hadn't felt envious of Hassan. This shows that he sometimes feels ashamed to be his son, and he does hate the way Baba does not have a stronger relationship with him, and cherish him more. In this quote Amir is talking about Baba, it is said when Baba does not read Amir's story and instead goes upstairs to get ready for an evening out. "But right then, I wished I could open up my veins and drain his cursed blood from my body." Said by Rahim Kahn and supports the above. ![]() I will always hear any story you have to tell. "My door is always open to you, Amir jan. This supports my idea that Rahim Kahn is more loving to Amir and he seems to have a stronger connection, always being the one to 'rescue' him. "As always it was Rahim Kahn who rescued me"īaba does not even offer to read Amir's first short story, and instead Rahim Kahn steps in. It shows that Hassan is the reason Amir starts writing and goes on the get published. This is said after Hassan compliments Amir on the story he made up as a joke. "That same night I wrote my first short story." I'd tease him, expose his ignorance."Īmir's cruelty is shown in this quote, he is teasing Hassan because he can't read, playing mind games with him as he doesn't understand the meaning of the words. ![]() "My favourite part of reading to Hassan was when we came across a big word he didn't know. Although they are close friends it is made clear that they are also the servants, a lower class than Amir and Baba. The historical problems between Hazara and Pashtuns affects the way Amir views his friendship with Hassan and the wasy Baba views his with Ali. "What does he know, that illiterate Hazara? He'll never be anything but a cook." "-after all, what use did a servant have for the written word?" "In the end, I was Pashtun and he was Hazara, I was Sunni and he was Shi'a, and nothing was ever going to change that." ![]()
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