Character Essay

• Character Essay Points

  • P1 - Sympathize with Amir for his father's coldness but see him as spoiled and cruel to Hassan


  "He's not my friend! He's my servant"

  "A boy who won't stand up for himself becomes a man who can't stand up to anything"
• Character Essay Points

  • P2 - View Amir as a disloyal friend for failing to save Hassan during an assault, worsened by framing him for theft.


  "But there was two things amid the garbage that I couldn't stop staring at: One was the blue kite... the other was Hassan's brown corduroy pants thrown in a heap of eroded bricks"

  "I lifted Hassan's mattress and planted my new watch and a handful of Afghani bills"
• Character Essay Points

  • P3 - Root more for Amir in America, as he shows guilt for his actions, and feels haunted by them, shown in his fear that he cannot have children


  “For me, America was a place to bury my memories. For Baba, a place to mourn his.”
• Character Essay Points

  • P4 - Feel positively that Amir has stepped up to save Sohrab from Assef, mirroring his inaction from the past, but he almost ruins it, by sending Sohrab back to an orphanage


  "My body was broken - just how badly I wouldn't find out until later - but I felt healed. Healed at last. I laughed"
• Character Essay Points

  • P5 - Amir finally on the route to redemption as he runs the kite for Sohrab


  "'For you a thousand times over,' I heard myself say"