between the two tribes is not pretty good and safe. Assef, one of the notorious characters in the story gives us small information of the situation between them.
He says that Afghanistan is the land of Pashtun. It always has been, always will be. He asserts that he is the true Afghans, the pure Afghans, and not Hassan, a
“Flat Nose”. Assef thinks that Hassan people pollute his watan homeland. The Hazaras has dirtied the Pashtuns’ blood. In the end he states that Afghanistan is
only for Pashtun. And that is his big vision Hosseini 36. The Hazaras are just casted away and forced to stay in a restricted area like
Hazarajat Hosseini 37-38. Tytler 57 explains clearer in his book about what has happened between the Pashtuns the true Afghans and the Hazaras during the
history. He explains that the Hazaras differ radically from the Afghans, with whom they have been constantly at feud, and retain many of the traits of their
Central Asian ancestors. The Pashtuns have tortured the Hazaras until the fact now, like what the
web says, Sunni Muslim gain 80 of their population which far more enormous than Shi’a Muslim population 19 Afghanistan, web.
2.2 Theoretical Framework
This study focuses on the discussion about Amir’s disloyalty to Hassan. To reveal the factors which influence Amir to be disloyal to Hassan, firstly it is
needed to know what kinds of relationship that they have and how they live the relationship in each of the kinds.
In order to discuss the kinds of relationship Amir and Hassan have, the theories of character and characterization are needed. These theories first assist to
determine how a character acts based on their personality and self-character. Further, kinds of the relationship Amir and Hassan can be possibly explained by
knowing each character’s act and trait. These theories are asserted by some other theories namely theory of children, theory of friendship and theory of motivation
which make the explanation on each kinds of relationship clearer. In order to analyze the first factor of Amir’s disloyalty, two theories are
used in this thesis. Theory of character, characterization, family, children and motivation are used in analyzing the family factor of why Amir is disloyal to
Hassan. The social factor of Amir’s disloyalty to Hassan is entirely discussed using the historical background of Afghanistan, and synchronizing it with what
has been told in the story of The Kite Runner concern social condition in Afghanistan.
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CHAPTER 3 METHODOLOGY
Chapter three is divided into three sections. First is object of the study. The second section focuses on the chosen approaches which are used in this analysis.
The third section concerns the steps taken in completing the study.
3.1 Object of the study
The object of the study is a novel by Khaled Hosseini entitled The Kite Runner. It was originally written in English and first published in Great Britain
2003. The novel has been translated into many languages like Indonesian. This study used the original English version which was published in 2004. The novel
has 324 pages in 25 chapters. The story of The Kite Runner tells the reader about fraternity of Amir and
Hassan, two young Afghan children who have been grown up together. They are friends. However, there are some threatening fundamental things shadowing their
strong relationship. The problem pops up when Amir knows that his father, Baba, never really cares much about what he has done. He thinks that Baba hates him
because he causes his mother died when giving birth to him. Instead of admiring his own son, Baba prefers to take a heed on Hassan, a low Hazara servant but one
full of loyalty, guts, struggle and strength. Amir feels threatened by Hassans existence. His inconvenience begins to be worse when in one evening Amir
himself merely witnesses Hassan sodomized by Assef, the leader of a notorious
