. .] he was just a Hazara, wasn’t he?” ( Hosseini 100). This quote goes beyond Amir’s childish acts, as it also portrays Amir’s views toward Hassan. Since Baba kept his secret tightly locked, Amir did not respect Hassan the way he would of if he knew that Hassan was his half-brother.
This could be because Amir is a coward or because he sees Hassan as merely a servant. Nonetheless, he deceives a great friend. In addition to not helping Hassan during the rape, Amir also frames Hassan later on in the story by “lift[ing] Hassan’s mattress and placing [his] new watch and a handful of Afghani bills under it” (Hosseini, Page 110). He does this because he wants to get rid of Hassan and, ultimately, the feelings of guilt that he brings with him. However, in doing so, he is deceiving someone who, under the same circumstances, would never do anything so hurtful.
Like father like son, Baba also falls on the same track of sin towards Ali, whom he sees as his brother. Baba has been hiding the truth from Ali, Amir and Hassan, that Hassan is in fact Amir’s half brother. Once again this ties social class with
“The Things They Carried” is a text that focuses on writing as a form of coping with trauma and discusses how exaggeration is sometimes needed in a story to convey the message that the story-teller is trying to get at. An example of this is when the author talks about how for Rat Kiley “facts were formed by sensation” (89). Kiley is described as telling his stories as though they are intended to be tragedies, even the funny parts. This is because there is an underlying sadness to every war story, even though humor can be found in them. Part of this may be attributed to the ‘education’ each soldier received when they first went off to the war.
His opinion is mixed because although he accepts the society’s idea of Jim being a slave he still respects him. His acceptance of the society’s idea of Jim being a slave is shown when Huck addresses Jim as “Miss Watson’s nigger” (Twain, 17). By addressing Jim as such Huck is excepting society’s position on slavery without really having any experience with it himself. Huck’s acceptance is also shown when Jim brings up the idea of stealing his wife and children back, in which he responds “It most froze me to hear such talk” (Twain, 88). This shows his acceptance because he doesn’t see Jim as a person and he sees his children as someone else’s property, which he feels would be wrong to steal.
This shows the distinction between the battle of right and wrong and how characters are either on one side or the other. Terry’s is influenced by his conscience throughout the film such as; when Joey Doyle is thrown off the roof, he thinks it’s unnecessary and that the guys were just going to talk to him but he trusts Johnny that it was the right decision. Another instance where Terry’s conscience effects his decisions is where he gives the tokens to Edie as he feels empathic of her brother and the damage he helped instigated. The sides of right and wrong are clearly
In doing so, we see how essential not only it is for Lennie to gain another friend in times of loneliness, but for Crooks as well. Being secluded from companionship like Crooks is, he becomes dependent on Lennie for moments like those to remind him that he is still a human being. Lennie, like George, also doesn’t want to risk losing a friend over something minor. When Lennie wanted some ketchup and he saw that he made George angry by continuously asking for what they don’t have, he immediately apologized and said “I wouldn’t eat no ketchup, George. I’d leave it all for you.
What Amir didn’t realise is that the ‘monster’ was a metaphor of himself and that the dream was foreshadowing the betrayal he would commit toward Hassan. From this moment of betrayal Hassan knew he couldn’t completely trust Amir, but wouldn’t dare say
Except now that I had it, I felt as empty as this unkempt pool I was dangling my legs into.” (p. 85). It is in this way that Hosseini uses the kite symbol to develop irony; Amir believes that the kite would be the savior of his relationship with Baba, but in reality, it is only superficial love. Amir wanted to be like Baba, but he didn’t realize that he already was like Baba. He was incapable of having a real relationship with a person, and valued things like kite fighting over actual relationships. It is because of this that he betrays Hassan, and says, “He was just a Hazara, wasn’t he?” (p. 77).
So here is kind of contradictory that even though he hates the British Empire, but he still work for them, and these action has reflect the definition of ambivalence. * The reason why I choose “D. antipathy” is because base on the same quote I found in the paragraph 2, he directly blame all the environment he had. He hate the people, hate his imperial country Britain, and he job. So I use to think that since he has such dislike about everything, apathy should be the correct answer.