Pasthun and Sunni. That religious condition brings a distance to them since Pasthun has higher status than Hazara.
As a Hazara servant who receives good treatment from his master, automatically Hassan will do whatever it takes to keep his status and to show his
thanks to his master. One way to show his thankful is by carrying out his household duties diligently. In the morning he begins his day by praying the
morning namaz with Ali and then prepares Amir’s breakfast neatly on the dining table. When Amir complains about his homework, Hassan has made Amir’s bed,
polishes his shoes, irons his outfit for the day and packs his books and pencils Hossesini 23. He does all of his duties happily and sometimes with an old
Hazara song. Concerning his status, undoubtedly Hassan does not want to hurt Amir, the
one who always spends his time playing with him, the one who brings him to experience a lot of beautiful things, and the one who spends his twelve years of
childhood with him. Regarding all of his luck which comes from Amir’s family, Hassan does his best for Amir. He always defends Amir whenever he is
threatened, and he always makes Amir happy and seems like he wants to make sure that Amir is in secure condition and feeling. What Hassan does for Amir is
one of his ways of keeping his status. If he does something which make Amir hurt or disappointed, there is a possibility that he will be send away from Amir’s house
though it is only a little chance. So in keeping his status as a servant who receives very good treatment, Hassan does his best for Amir.
Analyzing his second reason for regarding Amir as his best friend, Hassan’s reason can be categorized also in the second level of Maslow’s hierarchy
of needs which is security and safety needs. His motivation to keep his status affects him to do his best for Amir. There is a possibility that if he does his best
besides to show his gratitude to Amir and Baba, he will also keep his status as a servant. What he does in keeping his status reflects his efforts to fulfill his needs
of safety and security which take account of security of employment, morality and property.
4.2.1.3 Amir as His Only Friend
During his twelve years of childhood with Amir, Hassan has no other friend except Amir. Though Hassan and Amir sometimes play together outside,
but Hassan has no other friend. It may be because he is a Hazara boy and the people around him in Kabul are Pasthun who have higher status. Hassan spends
most of his daily life with Amir even sometimes their entire childhood seems like one long lazy summer day.
..chasing each other between tangles of trees in my father’s yard. Playing hide and seek, cops and robbers, cowboys and Indians, insect torture-with
our crowing achievement undeniably the time we plucked the stinger off a bee and tied a string around the poor thing to yank it back every time it
took flight. We chased the Kochi, the nomads who passed through Kabul on their way
to the mountains of the north. We would hear their caravans approaching our neighborhood, the mewling of the sheep, the baaing of the goats, the
jingle of the bells around their camels’ neck. We’d run outside to watch the caravan plod through our street, men and dusty, weather-beaten faces
and women dressed in long, colorful shawls, beads, and silver bracelets around their wrists and ankles. We hurled pebbles at their goats. We
squirted water on their mules. I’d make Hassan sit on the Wall of Ailing Corn and fire pebbles with his slingshot at the camels’ roar Hosseini 22-
23.
One summer day, Amir uses one of Ali’s kitchen knives to carve their names on a tree:” Amir and Hassan, the sultans of Kabul”. Those words make it formal that
the tree is theirs. After school, Hassan and Amir climb its branches and snatch its blood red pomegranates. Then, Amir will read Hassan a story Hosseini 24. All
of those happy times bring Hassan to experience beautiful times as a Hazara boy. The feeling that he only has one friend drives him to keep his friendship
with Amir. Since he has only one friend he will not hurt his friend and do almost anything to make Amir happy to be with him. His sense of belonging affects him
to do all of the good things to Amir. He is always the one who can protect Amir especially when they play outside Hoseeini 37. Most of the time he also tries to
make Amir happy with him. The reason that Amir is his only friend takes Hassan to keep his friendship
even after receiving some betrayal from Amir. If we take a look at Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, Hassan’s third reason can be categorized in the third level
which is love and belonging needs. In this third level which covers the needs of friendship and family Hassan put his efforts and loves to Amir and their
friendship. Here, in his third reason Hassan put his motivation for regarding Amir as his best friend one level upward from the two previous reasons. It is because he
feels that his needs of safety and security are fulfilled by respecting Amir as his master and keeping his status.
4.2.2 The Ways of Maintaining His Friendship with Amir
According to Beebe 420, communication and conversation between close friends will be highly intimate. The relation deals with our emotional feeling. It is
