Character Analysis Of Amir In 'The Kite Runner'

Amir takes actions that seem bad because his entire life he had to deal with emotional and physical abuse. In the kite runner Amir is projected as a bad guy because of how he treats Hassan throughout the book. Amir isn’t a bad guy because his actions were done when he was young, full of jealousy, and rejected. People can overlook it because these feelings are relatable. Amir does these immoral action because he believes that it will make his life easier. He tries to see his action as solutions to most of his problems he deals with. When the main character was young he tended to make ignorant decisions because he didn’t fully understand what his actions meant to others. While he was young he made most foolish decisions towards Hassan, which later causes a great impact. He targeted Hassan because he was seen as his competition. For example, in the story Amir says, “But he’s not my friend, he’s my servant!” (Hosseni, Page 41) This example represented how Amir answered when they asked who Hassan was to him. Amir knew that Hassan sees him as a brother, but Amir felt defensive when the question arose and answered without putting any thought to it. Amir is too young to know that, when he made that comment in front of
Since it was easy for Hassan to get affection from Baba Amir resented Hassan. Amir has always been jealous of Hassan, which means to envy a person of their achievements. (Hosseni, page 89) Amir was upset and says “Baba, have you ever thought about getting new servants?” then Baba’s reactions were unpleasant. Amir was hoping that Baba would have agreed to a new servant, but inside he knew he would never let Hassan go because to Baba he is family. Amir concluded that if Baba was to agree to a new servant, then Amir can stop having to resent Hassan for always have the attention from Baba. This showed how much Baba loves Hassan, or how much he cares weather Hassan is in their