Assignment 3: Amir & Hassan

I love this feeling. Lying on my little but cozy bed, feeling a bit chill wind blows my face; make me feel good and refresh, I am read the Kite Runner. Be honest, I feel sort of I am addicting to this book, I can’t put it down when I started to read it, it is such an interesting and unforgettable story that happened in Afghanistan! I even was trying to look up to the Internet for the movie , because I want to know more about it. It also is a good topic to talk with my friends when I am hanging out, and they keep asking me what happened and the details about the story. Anyways, I love this book.

All right, let us talk about how complicated the relationship between Amir and Hassan. I can’t just easily to say they are more like servant and mater, because there are sometimes they two like brothers and good friends, say, they two sometime share the ups and downs as well as help each other. One time Hassan gives Amir some encouragements, which is only closed friend does that.

However, here is what I am want to say, if you read the chapters before 7, apparently, the time that they are like brothers and closed friends are really rare, merely few times. It is, the relationship between them is more like servant and master. I had to say Amir is really mean to Hassan even Hassan treat Amir like his brother, too many reasons to let Amir hates Hassan and want to insult him as well as be a servant. We can easily say how bad Amir treats Hassan and how loyalty Hassan to Amir from the dialogue in Chapter six Page 53-54: “He smiled. ‘Sit with me, Amir agha.’ I dropped next to him; lay on a thin patch of snow, wheezing. … ‘I don’t know. Would you?’ ‘I’d sooner eat dirt,’ he said with a look of indignation. … ‘Eat dirt if I told you to,’ I said. I was being cruel, like when I’d taunt him if he didn’t know some big word’’ So, as we can see, there has some special relationship between them and most of their relationship are really bad even we can see animosity between them.

Later on, there is a perfect example to show the relationship between them is master and servant, because Hassan doe everything that Amir call for, even eat dirt like says above. In Chapter five, page 43, “They then turned around, walked away. I watched them walk down the hill and disappear behind a wall. Hassan was trying to tuck the slingshot in his waist with a pair of trembling hand. His mouth curled up into something that was supposed to be reassuring smile.” Here, I can tell Hassan wants to protect Amir who is his master instead of friend or brother.

All in all, there are plenty of examples in the book can proof that Amir is Hassan’s master without doubt.