Sohrab, Hassan’s son, from Kabul to redeem his betrayal toward Hassan as his half illegitimate brother, and chasing the kite for Sohrab to prove his willing to get
back Sohrab’s trust. Meanwhile, Amir’s caharacteristic as a static character can be seen by his
unchanged personality, although he has some traits or general description revealed in the story. In the beginning of The Kite Runner, Amir appears as a caring person
toward Hassan, and in the end he still appears as caring person but toward Sohrab as Hassan’s son.
In addition, dealing with the number of Amir’s general description appearance as the main character of The Kite Runner above, it can be concluded
that Amir’s most dominant general description is anxious and later followed by coward. Since, Amir’s general description as an anxious person appears eight
times, and coward appears five times.
4.2 Amir’s Conflict
. Most of main character within a story experiences some big conflicts. Amir, as the main character of The Kite Runner experienced big conflicts which gives
impact for his psychology. This sub chapter is a part of Amir’s internal and external conflict analyzing.
4.2.1 Amir’s Internal Conflict
Amir’s internal conflict appears as his fear arouse within himself when he was seeing Assef and his gang trapped Hassan and blocked Hassan’s way out
from alley. Amir’s fear that arises within himself can be seen from his body’s responds such clenching up, and feeling a cold rippled up the spine. In addition,
those Amir body’s responds show his general description as an anxious person. The explanation above is based on the data number 16 below:
Blocking Hassan way out of the alley...Wali..Kamal..Assef...
I felt my body clench up, and something cold rippled up my spine.
Hosseini, 2003:62
Being afraid to watch what was happening to Hassan, and later turned away from the alley, is a proof of Amir’s internal conflict which arises within
himself. Moreover, the sentence “I was weeping”, means crying, is illustrated Amir’s big emotional he can not bear by seeing Hassan got raped by Assef.
Besides that, in this internal conflict, Amir’s respond to the unpleasant condition he sees such stop watching and turning away from the alley, emphasizes Amir’s
general description as a coward person. The explanation above is based on the data number 19 below:
I stopped watching, turned away from the alley. ... I was weeping.
Hosseini, 2003:67
According to Amir’s betrayal to Hassan by letting him got raped by Assef to save Amir’s winning kite, makes Amir experiences an internal conflict.
Later, this internal conflict makes Amir become an insomniac. There was one
