34-37) (page 10) There’s a primal closeness between Amir and Hassan. We took our first steps on the same lawn in the same yard.Īnd, under the same roof, we spoke our first words. ‘ Hassan and I fed from the same breasts. Does Amir control the relationship? Is this why Hassan often takes the blame for things? Does Amir ever take responsibility for anything in the novel? Quote #2 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. Hassan will later take the blame for the wad of cash and the watch.) We should also note that Amir seems like the gang leader in this passage, getting the two boys into trouble. Hassan protects and defends Amir and, foreshadowing later events in the novel, refuses to tell on Amir. 2-3) This passage shows up early in the novel and really tells us quite a bit about Amir and Hassan’s friendship. Never told that the mirror, like shooting walnuts at the neighbor’s dog, was always my idea. “Yes, Father,” Hassan would mumble, looking down at his feet. “And he laughs while he does it,” he always added, scowling at his son. He would take the mirror and tell us what his mother had told him, that the devil shone mirrors too, shone them to distract Muslims during prayer. He would wag his finger and wave us down from the tree. Hassan’s father, Ali, used to catch us and get mad, or as mad as someone as gentle as Ali could ever get. Hassan never wanted to, but if I asked, really asked, he wouldn’t deny me. Paragraph) Quote #1 Sometimes, up in those trees, I talked Hassan into firing walnuts with his slingshot at the neighbor’s one-eyed German shepherd. It shows what he constantly has to deal with as well as his son.FRIENDSHIP QUOTE Citations follow this format: (Chapter. This quote stuck out to me because we rarely have any insight on Ali’s life that does not seem meaning less but deals with more than being a servant. This quote adds a caring yet saddening tone to the novel, because the only reason Ali feels as if he must do this is because of the hatred toward the hazzar culture. This foreshadows the run in with Assef in the alley, because Ali would not constantly worry if there were no reason to. It reveals the nature of Hassan’s father that Amir desperately craves, even though he is just as concerned as a good parent. This quote is important because it gives more insight on how Ali acts toward Hassan. I heard him mutter a prayer under his breath- he always said a prayer when his son left his house” (Hosseini 60).
This foreshadows him attempting to darken Hassan’s purity and make him equal or under him. He is being “phony” to himself by denying and not admitting to himself how he really is. This stood out to me because Amir even in his own head is in denial of his actual actions. It makes the reader feel less pity for him. It adds a negative light to Amirs image in the book. He does not want to face the fact that he truly is “phony”. It is important because not only does it have an envious tone to it, but also it is truth to Amirs actual personality as he shows he is not the most honest person. This quote contains an envious tone that reveals a hidden jealously Amir has for Hassan.
#2: “He was so goddamn pure, you always felt like a phony around him” (Hosseini 58). It does reveal that Amir is aware how unhealthy it is to crave his father’s attention regardless of the circumstance.
It foreshadows possibly Amir killing or doing something eccentric in order to prove him self to his father and feel accepted. It stands out to me because attention and affection from a parent is something that should not be so deprived from a child to a point that it is their only goal they wish to achieve.
It adds to the level of unsettling attention seeking Amir exudes. The fact that a war could have begun around them that could have potentially killed them and him not caring because his father was finally embracing him in his arms giving him what he so long craved. Amir is so obsessed over his father affection that he does not care how he obtains it. #1: “We let him wrap us in his arms and, for a brief insane moment, I was glad about whatever had happened that night”(Hosseini 36).
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