The Kite Runner Relationship between Amir and Hassan

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Amir and Hassan enjoy doing everything together. Amir, however, never considers Hassan and him to be friends. Amir feels this way because he knows that neither history nor religion changes who they are. In the end, Amir is a Pashtun and Hassan is a Hazara. They were kids, however, and fed from the same breast and learned to crawl together. Nothing is going to change that either. They play hide-and-seek, cops and robbers, cowboys and Indians, and they love insect torture. They take strolls together through the parks and see many movies together. They climb trees and Amir reads many stories to Hassan. Hassan is uneducated and Amir makes fun of him for not being able to read. When Amir is around his friends he will just act like Hassan is just someone whom he doesn’t like and this person is just following him around. The relationship that Amir and Hassan have shows how people with power and people who don’t have power truly feel about each other. Amir and Hassan seem to be the best of friends when none of Amir’s friends are around, but when they are, Amir doesn’t want anything to do with Hassan. Amir’s friends are really trying to bring Amir into the real world where Amir should have nothing to do with him. This relationship shows how hard it is to break through peer pressure to develop a strong relationship with someone who isn’t of your

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