In The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hoseini, (Riverhead Press, New York, 2003) the main character Amir moves to America from Afghanistan in search to forget his past. He goes on a journey of redemption in which gives him a chance "to be good again". Through Amir's journey he has to recognize his sin and then he has to search for redemption in order "to be good again".
Amir, who lived in Afghanistan with his father Baba and two servants Ali and Ali's son Hassan, grows up playing with Hassan and doing everything with him but struggles calling him a friend. Hassan was a Hazara and Amir a Pashtun which in history Hazara's and Pashtun's did not get along. "The curious thing was, I never thought of Hassan and me as friends either. Not in the usual sense, anyhow
we taught each other to ride a bicycle with no hands
Because history
I was a Pashtun and he was a Hazara
and nothing was ever going to change that" (22). As Amir struggles to really truly call Hassan a friend he is face with......
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