The Relationships of Amir in "The Kite Runner".

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The Relationships of Amir

28/10/2011

The Kite Runner written By Khaled Hosseni is a novel, which follows the life of a young boy, Amir and his challenges through childhood.  The book was made into a movie in 2007 and although it follows the story written by Khaled Hosseni there are many differences that make the book a lot better. The novel particularly focuses on the relationships Amir has with the people closest to him, which include his father, Baba, Rahim Khan, a friend and Hassan, the servant boy. Similarly, the movie also portrays the same relationship although with a very different viewpoint that questions the readers view on how the book had portrayed it.

In significance, the relationship of Amir and Hassan in the book is portrayed as a distinction between classes, this is because although Amir likes Hassan, he only plays with him in secrecy and it is usually Hassan that takes the blame when they do something wrong. This is shown in the book, when Amir lures Hassan into shooting a rock into the neighbour’s dog. Although it was Amir’s fault that Hassan had done that, Hassan was the one who got into trouble because like Ali had phrased it was the devil luring him. Another incident is where Hassan gets raped by Assef. This scene in the book is portrayed with lots of insight from Amir’s point of view and how he could only stand there and watch. This shows that although the boy’s relationship is strong, it is not strong enough to the point where Amir is willing to risk himself to save what others refer to as a Hazara boy.   However this incident is contradictory to the one that takes places days after the rape and this event displays the relationship of Hassan and Amir, in a way where one thinks of only himself and the other who only thinks of others.  This event was the one where Amir is throwing pomegranates at Hassan to make up for the fact that he couldn’t do anything when Hassan needed his help. To make Amir feel better Hassan throws the pomegranate at himself, which anger’s Amir even more. These events portrayed with a lot of emotion in the book, however they were briefly introduced in the movie but did not portray the significance in their relationship.

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However although the movie displayed all the parts mentioned above, they did not do justice to the relationship of Amir and Hassan. This is because the part where they hit the dog with the rock, is described in such detail in the book, however the movie briefly touches on the particular event, it does not display the relationship like it did in the book because in the book, Hassan takes the blame when Ali catches them, however in the movie, nobody tells them that it was wrong. Also the part where Hassan gets raped is shown very well, but since ...

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