Kite Runner Setting

Amir is a son of a businessman in Kabul. He is also intelligent but sensitive. He is a gifted storyteller and became a novelist. He is the one telling a story. Hassan is a beautiful and a good person. Hassan is tougher than Amir when they were younger.

One of the primary characters that shaped Amir was his best friend and servant, Hassan. They were literally together as infants and both were motherless shortly after their births. As the boys grow up together you can see who Hassan is as a person, amazing friend, loyal, forgiving, and a good – natured child. Hassan is brought up learning that it

Hassan is considerably Amir’s sidekick, but he is also Amir and Baba’s servant. Amir is completely discourteous towards Hassan, and Amir is notorious to take advantage of him throughout the novel. Subsequently, following Hassan’s death, Amir discovers himself and Hassan are brothers, but as for Hassan it is too late. Regardless Hassan seeming benevolent, the story is completely being told

-Amir is the main character. His son 's servant Hassan is Amir 's best friend. However, he is an ethnic minority, a Hazara. There is also some tension because Baba, Amir 's father, seems to favor Hassan.

By not telling Amir and Hassan that he is Hassan’s father, Baba not only breaks his own moral code, but also hurts Amir’s feelings. Baba lied to both Amir and Hassan and to everyone else by not telling them that he is Hassan’s father. Baba believes that the only sin is theft and that “every other sin is a variation of theft” (17). One of these variations is lying which he says is stealing someone’s right to the truth. However, he is condemned by his own moral guidelines. When Amir learns that Baba fathered Hassan, he realizes “Baba had been a thief. And a thief of the worst kind,

He is the protagonist. Readers feel compassion for him. He is conflicted in many ways. He is jealous of the relationship and bond Baba has with Hassan. Yet he realises that Hassan is of the lower class in society.”I was going to win, and I was going to run that last kite. Then I’d bring it home and show it to Baba. Show him once and for all that his son was worthy.” (Housini 53) He is very emotional and a storyteller. Baba, the father. He is considered a hero and a leader in Kabul. He is Amir’s father. They never really had a strong connection especially in afghanistan. Baba always exceeds the expectations of others, because of that he expects more out of his son. Baba also comes off as someone who lives by his own moral code. He is hiding a secret that he is afraid to tell. Hassan is amir's playmate and servant. He is also the son of Ali. Hassan felt like Amir was his friend but Amir never really thought of Hassan that way.

Despite being brothers and having grown up alongside each other, Hassan and Amir are much more different than alike. In the beginning of the book, Hassan is always happy and willing to help out, while Amir seems selfish and deprecating in contrast. Hassan is loyal and good, saying to Amir he will do anything "for you

“In the end, I ran” Amir said as he just witnessed the most horrifying incident of his life,

The narrator describes the relationship between Amir and Hassan. It reveals that even though Hassan is a Hasara and Amir’s servant, they are still like brothers to each other. The fact that Hassan’s first word was Amir also suggests that he is very important and special to him. In addition, the boys’ first words foreshadows the event that happened in the winter of 1975 that has haunted Amir for years. Maybe Hassan took the blame for something Amir did, and it ruined his life forever. It’s also possible that whatever Amir did was to impress his father, but his plan went awry and Hassan received the consequences.

Furthermore, Amir forgives Baba for not telling him that Amir and Hassan are half-brothers. Hassan gets treated very well by Baba, considering he is a server at Baba’s house. Hassan gets great birthday presents, and he is always welcome to father-son activities with Amir and Baba. Sometimes Amir is jealous and doesn’t understand why Hassan gets treated the same as himself. Amir wants to be treated better, because he is Baba’s son, and Hassan is Baba’s servant. What Amir doesn’t know is that Hassan is his half-brother. Years later, Rahim Kahn tells him this when Amir visits him in Pakistan. Amir learns that a long time ago, Baba had an affair with a Hazara woman, which was socially unacceptable. Out of this affair, a child was born: Hassan. Hassan is not Ali’s son; Hassan is Baba’s son. Baba never tells Amir, and this makes Amir very angry and disappointed. For Amir, his father is a hero and not a liar. However, when Rahim Kahn explains Baba’s situation and why he acted this way, Amir starts to

Amir and Hassan have been raised together and therefore have a really close bond. Hassan’s mother left his father after Hassan was born and Amir’s mother died during childbirth. Amir is constantly trying to get his father’s affection since he holds a grudge against Amir because he feels that Amir killed his mother. Amir sometimes even feels that Baba prefers Hassan. Amir is always looking for ways to gain his father’s love and decides that the only way he can do that is through a kite-fighting competition.

Baba, Amir’s father had always treated Hassan like a second son and did not forget when his birthday was. The jealousy was taking over Amir and leads him to commit an act of betrayal against his best friend. After Hassan leaves he knows what he has done was a sinful act. The war starts and everything is devastated.

Baba’s final attempts at redeeming himself as a good father come too little, too late. Ultimately, the impact that any parent has on their child’s life is the greatest at the beginning of the child’s life, and slowly declines as the child grows

Baba, Amir’s father,

Throughout the novel, Amir endeavors to be approved by his father, Baba, who is admired by people in Kabul. Unfortunately, Baba believes that Amir, unlike him, is very unmanly “and [that he] never fights back. He just... drops his head ” (Hosseini 24). Since Baba wishes for a son who would stand up for himself, he can’t help but observe that Amir’s friend Hassan, as the guy who “steps in and fends the [bullies] off” (Hosseini 24) is his idea of the ideal son. Though aware of his father’s expectations, Amir is unable to change himself and instead envies Hassan and the fact that Baba treats him like his own son by“[patting]Hassan on the back. [and even putting] his arm around his shoulder [like a fatherly figure]”(Hosseini 15). Despite the manifestation of this hatred in Amir, he continues to recognize the bond that he shares with Hassan, “ brotherhood between people who had fed from the same breast” (Hosseini 11) which is because both their mothers died during birth. The confusing emotions he feels for Hassan has Amir face a situation in which he acts inappropriately and allows the guilt to manifest upon him. After winning a very important kite tournament for the first time and “seeing Baba on that roof, proud of [him] at last” (Hosseini 71) Amir begins to search for Hassan who had gone to run his kite earlier. Finally, Amir finds him in a dark alley and as he “peeks around the corner” (Hosseini 75) he witnesses a sight that eradicated not only his relationship with Hassan but also Baba’s brotherly relationship with Ali, Hassan’s father. Peeking through the corner of the alley, like a bystander, he watches his one and only friend getting raped. The guilt that came upon him was for two reason; one, his lack of courage to stand up to