Assignment 3: Amir & Hassan

The relationship between Amir and Hassan is hard to depict. From these 7 chapters, I feel that the relationship between them most like servant and master. But sometime, I can also feel that they like friends or brothers.

For Amir, his opinions are very contradictious. Sometime he feels that he and Hassan are friends or brothers. When Assef said they are friend, he didn’t negative this, although he didn’t agree it. In page 36, “But he’s not my friend! I almost blurted. He’s my servant,” and, “I treated Hassan well, just like a friend, better even, more like a brother.” This feeling for Amir is just a little. He most thinks that Hassan was his servant, was his playmate just when he need Hassan. This is also in page 36, “I play with Hassan only when no one else was around.” And there is another example to show us that in Amir’s opinion, Hassan most like a servant, not a friend. He didn’t help Hassan, when Hassan need help. In page 65, “I just watched. Paralyzed,” When Assef would bully Hassan. Ann the second time, Amir also chose running away. Amir said the reasons, one is because he was cowardly, and another one, “Hassan was the price I had to pay, the lamb I had to slay, to win Baba.” “He was just a Hazara, wasn’t he?” I think this is real reason. I feel this world is not impartial, for Amir, although he feel compunction, Hassan just is the “price”, is “our servant’s son”. But in Hassan’s opinion, Amir is the most important people in his life. He did every thing just want Amir happy. He just said, “I’d sooner eat dirt,” and, “If you asked, I would,” in page 49, and he believe every thing that Amir said. But we can’t deny that Hassan has a hierarchy sense in his mind.

So my opinion about the relationship between Amir and Hassan is servant and master. Although sometimes they like friends or brothers.