The curious thing was, I never thought of Hassan and me as friends either.” “But in none of his stories did Baba ever refer to Ali as his friend. In fact, it shows that Baba has an air of his own persona spread through such quotations to show that he is a bold and liberal fellow living in Afghanistan of that time. He tells him that if a boy does not stand up for himself, he cannot help others as he has no courage to help himself. “A boy who won’t stand up for himself becomes a man who can’t stand up to anything.”īaba speaks these words to Rahim, expressing his displeasure with Amir for not standing up for Hassan or himself. The rest of the sin like murder, adultery, lying are just the forms of stealing or theft. Then Baba believes that stealing is the only sin in the world. He tells Amir that there is no sin except stealing property or belongings of other people. Every other sin is a variation of theft.”Īmir hears these words from Baba, who seems quite liberal.
It is difficult for a person to love such a figure and then fear him, too. His will is supreme in all matters and that is why others fear him. He thinks that Baba wants things in his own way. These lines define Amir’s relationship with his father, Baba. You can’t love a person who lives that way without fearing him too.” And he got to decide what was black and what was white. This thinking sets his relationship with Hassan, who belongs to the Hazara community. He thinks about the barbarity of his tribe against the Hazaras, about killing and raping their women. These lines show Amir thinking about the book in which he has read about the enmity between the ethnic Hazaras and Pashtuns. “The book said that my people had killed the Hazaras, driven them from their lands, burned their homes, and sold their women.” These lines are a sort of a foreshadow to remind the protagonist that his counterpart is actually his kinsman. Ali would remind them of this kinship later. “Then he would remind us that there was a brotherhood between people who had fed from the same breast, a kinship that not even time could break.”Īmir, the protagonist of the novel, The Kite Runner, shows in these lines that he and Hassan have been fed and taken care of by the same nurse. He becomes nostalgic thinking about his past. The collective memories of the kite running, Baba, Hassan and his city Kabul come into his mind to remind him of his past life.
Amir is thinking about everything when sitting on a park bench.
Here Amir is remembering words spoken to him by Rahim. “‘There is a way to be good again.’ I looked up at those twin kites.
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