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Black-and-Grey Morality: Amir's cowardice partway through the novel is weighed against the behavior of more intensely and obviously evil characters like Assef, his cronies, and members of the Taliban.Boomerang Bigot: Assef hates anyone who isn't a Pashtun, but he is half-German himself.Grim as the novel has been, this actually gives it the tiniest hope of a happy ending one day.
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Batman Gambit: Rahim Khan sends Amir to his Redemption Quest by rescuing Sohrab and placing him in an orphanage runned by American expats.He likes forwardness in foreign policy, it seems. Badass Israeli: Baba has this opinion of the Israeli government.When he learns that Hassan is dead, he undertakes a perilous rescue of Hassan's orphaned son. Amir atones for his betrayal of Hassan by coming back to Afghanistan to find him.Baba had an affair with Ali's wife, producing Hassan he could never openly acknowledge Hassan as his son, so he tried to make up for it by giving Hassan nice things. Baba's kindness towards Hassan (and, to a lesser degree, Ali) is eventually revealed to be this.Armored Closet Gay: Assef makes fun of Amir and Hassan walking together and calls them the Afghan slur kunis, but he turns out to be bisexual, raping Hassan and molesting both young girls and boys as a Talib.Arc Words: For you, a thousand times over.Anti-Hero: Amir is fundamentally a good person who wants to do the right thing, but his cowardice and inability to own up to his mistakes makes him into a anti-hero that frequently makes the situation worse.Half-German Assef is a walking example of Godwin's Law, but his German mother seems to disapprove of his Hitler-worship. It becomes apparent that he finally has to face his wrongdoings and somehow make amends by going on this journey. One day he receives a phone call from his father's good friend, asking him to return to Kabul as an important matter awaits him there. Many years later, Amir is married and has a relatively good life in the United States, having tucked away his guilt and past. This causes a rift between the two, and eventually they part ways. One day, Hassan is subjected to a traumatizing event Amir witnesses this but due to his cowardice, does nothing to help his friend. Amir and Hassan are best friends and treat each other like brothers, despite their socio-economic differences. His father's servant, Hassan, is a Hazara, one of the North Afghan tribes (the Pashtuns inhabit the south, along with related regions in Pakistan and Iran). The story begins in Afghanistan in the 1960's, and follows Amir, a Pashtun and a member of the Kabul upper class. It is his first novel, the second being A Thousand Splendid Suns and his third being And the Mountains Echoed. The Kite Runner is a novel written in 2003 by Khaled Hosseini.