Privately, Amir is able to treat Hassan with the compassion and dignity Hassan deserves as a human being and as a friend. When Amir provides comfort to Hassan in the theater, it is important to recognize that a darkened theater is not the same as a lighted, public place. The differences between the sexes are also addressed, but in a more subtle way: Very few female characters exist or are developed, which mirrors the role of second-class citizens that females have in Afghanistan. The social hierarchy in Afghanistan is different from what we are used to in the United States and serves as an interesting contrast later in the novel. The use of the word "Hazara" for the first time is the beginning of an exploration of the cultural differences that separate both Afghanis and Muslims from one another. This chapter is set up episodically instead of chronologically, and the different narrative examples exist not only to forward the plot but also to enhance both character and thematic development. At the end of the chapter, the narrator reveals that his name is Amir - which is the first word spoken by Hassan. The narrator's teacher characterizes the Shi'a as projecting themselves as martyrs. The Pashtuns, the people of the narrator and his father, had persecuted and oppressed the Hazaras. When the narrator was eight years old, Ali caught him making fun of him, but Ali never said anything about it. Ali suffers from paralysis of his lower facial muscles, and polio left him with a twisted right leg. The Shi'a Muslims are the Hazaras, the lower class, the servants. The difference between Shi'a Muslim and Sunni Muslims is explained through narrative examples and direct exposition.
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Hassan begins to cry in the darkened movie theater, and the narrator puts his arm around Hassan. A soldier insults Hassan because of his ethnicity. One specific event occurs when the narrator and Hassan are taking a forbidden shortcut through the military barracks. The narrator describes the physical features of the characters and recounts some particular events growing up. Hassan is born a year after the narrator, and Baba arranges for the same nurse who fed his son nurse Hassan. An important similarity exists between the narrator and Hassan: the narrator's mother dies during childbirth, and Hassan loses his mother a week after his birth (she leaves her son and husband). The narrator mentions a picture of Baba, Rahim, and himself as a baby - a baby whose fingers curled around Khan's pinky and not his father's.īaba's servants, Ali and Hassan, live in a little hut near the main house. Rahim Khan is identified as Baba's best friend and business partner. As he grows up, the narrator is frustrated with his father's lack of attention.
Baba and the narrator live in Kabul, the city that is clearly identified as the setting. And Hassan takes the blame for their childhood pranks, never revealing to Ali, Hassan's father, that the narrator was the instigator.īaba is the narrator's father.
As they grow up together, Hassan, who is skilled with a slingshot, denies the narrator nothing, even when the narrator has asked potentially unethical requests. The narrator identifies Hassan as a childhood playmate and emphasizes, quite pointedly, Hassan's cleft lip. In flashback, Chapter 2 starts identifying characters and telling the story of the narrator and his relationships to the names mentioned in the previous chapter.
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