"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing."
OH my goodness. You must agree with me when I say that in this last chapter, this is exactly what happend. Evil triumphed. I am so astounded by what Amir did, I knew he was jealous and selfish, but I never thought of him as beign capable of abandoning his best friend, even if he never said it. When I was reading the book, there was a part when I just couldn't go on. I feel so letdown by Amir and the way he acted and the worst part is that if he had been the one in trouble and it was Hassan that found him, he would have defended him. The worst part about it is that in the proceeding days Hassan doesnt show himself any more, and all he does is sleep. Amir doesnt even go confort him, and when Ali askes him what's wrong, he even had the nerve to tell him that he doesnt know and that if he;s just going to stand in the door way and let him freeze. The nerve of the kid.
I hope that in the future he at least tells Hassan the truth and then never speaks to him again. If it were me I would forgive Amir but I'd never want to see him again. What do you guys think?
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Sometimes it seems as EVIL is the only thing that exists in this world but through people like Hassan we notice that their is still a "light" of hope in this planet. Although, Amir appeared to be a friend who would never let down his "best friend", he did giving an example of how even the strong can break. This should teach us a lesson on how we view our relationship with our so called friends because we have to be prepared fro the "Amir's" that can be found in our life.
ReplyDeleteyour very right hubert, but sometimes i do wish there could be more heros in the world. i fear that now in days we are all to scared to take chances. there are no more supermans or catwomans in the world and the ones that are left are always attacked by the evil people.
ReplyDelete-man our generation is slacking bigtime.
Very well said Hubert :) I definitely like to think that there is an Amir in us.
ReplyDeleteHonestly, I know what Amir did was wrong but we cannot condemn him without condemning ourselves first. How many times have WE let evil triumph? How many times have we seen someone throw trash on the floor and not done anything about it? How many times have we heard vituperative comments made towards someone and not said anything? Perhaps we were the ones embodying that evil. Truth is, Amir was like 11 at the time of event and if we remember how we were at the age of 11 then we would realize that the mentality we had then and our mentality now is drastically different. Sometimes I ponder over events in my life and I begin to imagine all of the things I could have done different in each situation. If I had only thought of that when it had happened then the guilt wouldn't be eating at me today. Now, all I can hope is that those people have forgiven me for what I have done.
Sara, about your comment that our generation is slacking, if we think about all of the "heros" throughout history, it's not like every 3 days a hero was popping up ready to make a world-wide movement. Heros are found everyday. There are heros when people donate blood. There are heros who decide to do the walk for AIDS or breast cancer. There are also heros like teachers who try to instill in their students the initiative to be able to cause their own change. Heros are everywhere! I think that you need to take another look and redefine what a hero actually means. :)
Well now that we've finished the book I think it's safe to say that he hates himself durring his entire childhood. He took advanage of Hassan, just because he was a sevant boy. Now that we know that they were actually finished the book we cant say that Amir was in the right to treat Hassan the way he did but when he found out Hassan was his brother I think Amir regrets his actions tenfold. I believe evil lies within ignorance. If someone does not know or understand something, and they are generally ignorant people, they seek to destroy it... or in Amir's case treat it as a replaceable object. The blood tie that he never knew about made all the difference, they should have learned that they were brothers when they were infants.
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