Amir And Hassan's Relationship Analysis

The relationship between Hassan and Amir is something that is complex, yet so simple. The two boys grew up together and will always be connected by the fact that they drank out of the same wet nurse, but the events that happen will forever plague their relationship. To Amir, Hassan was a friend who he had conflicted feelings for. One part of him was always remembering their past while the other was telling Amir that he was a worthless hazara. This inner battle constantly kept Amir from getting too close to Hassan. On the other hand, to Hassan, Amir was everything. Amir was the one who kept him happy, read to him everyday, and was always there when times got tough. Hassan would do anything for Amir, even if it pained him. From the beginning
While Hassan only wants to be loyal to Amir. Throughout the novel The Kite Runner, Hosseini proves this claim multiple times. As he states “Under the same roof, we spoke our first words… mine was Baba. His was Amir. My name,” (Hosseini 11), the reader can see the complex relationship between Hassan and Amir. The word “Baba” represents how Amir only cares for his father and tries his hardest to make him proud, while the word “Amir” represents how Hassan is loyal to Amir even when he knows that Amir does not feel the same way. This intricate relationship is also shown when Hosseini describes “Would I ever lie to you, Amir agha?’... ‘I don’t know. Would you?’...’I’d sooner eat dirt,” (Hosseini 54). The scene describes how Amir feels like trusting Hassan’s faith to see how far Hassan would go to protect him. Hassan replies by saying he would eat dirt before lying to Amir, showing the extent of his love. Amir feels slightly guilty for playing Hassan, but it gave him an example of how far the hazara would go for him. In the beginning of the book Hassan would do anything for Amir, and he proves this multiple times, but Amir does not feel the same way about Hassan, and that is their
On that day Amir chose Baba over Hassan in an unforgivable way. After he won the kite racing contest, Hassan is supposed to chase after the second best kite and bring it to Amir. That happens eventually, but the day was not happy and good like it was before the race. Hassan was missing so Amir decides to look for him and what he sees changes their relationship forever. Amir watches Hassan get raped, and does nothing. As Hosseini explains “I could step into that alley, stand up for Hassan- the way he’d stood up for me all those times in the past- and accept whatever would happen to me. Or I could run. In the end, I ran” (Hosseini 77), he changes Hassan and Amir’s relationship forever. In this moment, Amir shows where his loyalties lie, and it is not with Hassan. In the past, Amir would always try and make it up to Hassan when he messed with him, but this event shows how he never cared at all for Hassan. To make matters worse, the reason why he did not help Hassan was because he wanted to see Baba and have his father be proud of him. He “ran” because he never cared about Hassan at all. This event was the turning point in their relationship because after this happened, Amir wanted nothing to do with Hassan. He describes his feelings as “Everywhere I turned, I saw signs of his loyalty, his goddamn unwavering loyalty” (Hosseini 89). Amir was guilty, and sick of how Hassan would do anything for him, so he