sometimes find himself unaccepted because a single parent tends to decide what is best for the child and sometimes takes extreme measures to get it accomplished.
Magnier also explains that neighborhood also plays an important role that sometimes it treats the children too cruelly.
Families are one of the most valued aspects of life, and membership of a family is associated with personal happiness Eastman 4. Nevertheless, The Kite
Runner is set on a sad family situation with a son named Amir, a father named Baba, and a loyal maid named Hassan whom Baba does not recognize bluntly as
his son. Further, we can see that the problems occur are clearly the family’s problems because Amir does not feel that he gets a wholeheartedly attention from
his own father despite of what his maid, Hassan, receives. He starts to do mean things to Hassan because of his family’s unfair situation.
This part will discuss about Hassan’s true position in Amir’s family. And then, it will continue to the discussion of Baba’s treatment to Amir and Hassan.
4.2.1.1 Hassan’s true position in Amir’s Family
In the novel, Hassan is depicted as a character with sincere loyalty and sacrifice which make him so precious in Amir’s life later on. Hassan has been a
good friend for Amir and he has already made a nice relationship with him until the day they have to separate because of what Amir has done to Hassan. They
have been good friends since in their childhood. They spend their times playing and doing a lot of things like what Afghan kids mostly like to do. Even in a
pomegranate tree up on the hill, Amir and Hassan curve their names in its trunk
that express how deep their friendship is Hosseini 26. It cannot be denied that Hassan is a very close friend of Amir.
Hassan is a kid with his strong obedience either to some older people or to those he recognizes deserve his honor. He is very obedient to his father, Ali
Hosseini 4. He is also very obedient to Amir. Hassan realizes that he is just no one but a servant with Hazara status which cannot be changed as long as he lives.
This life situation has shaped his personality to become such a nice, innocent and strong kid in the story.
Hassan is exactly born in a small modest house abandoned and rejected by his own mother just behind Amir’s backyard Hosseini 5-6. He has been living
there together with Ali, the one he knows well as his father. Hassan is born in an unlucky family. Sanaubar, the name of his mother, refuses him once she notices
that her first son is a cleft lips kid. She mocks Ali for what she has got in marrying him, a son with a physical imperfectness Hosseini 10. Hassan has been covered
by a grief fact of his life. However, despite Hassan’s unlucky life condition, Amir’s father Baba, loves him more than he loves Amir.
In the earlier chapters of The Kite Runner, it is never introduced that Hassan is a real member of Amir’s family through a blood line. Amir, several
times, says that Baba is entirely his Hosseini 13. The story also depicts that Hassan only has one father who is limp and comes from a low class status whose
name is Ali. Those are the only things that ever pass in both of the kids’ mind. Amir’s expression shows that he himself does not know about the fact that Hassan
is his brother from a different mother when he is being told by Rahim Khan, Baba’s best mate and also more like Amir’s uncle Hosseini 206.
Neither Amir nor Hassan knows about the truth that Baba has ever had an intercourse with Sanaubar. Sanaubar is pregnant and gives birth to Hassan. This
very crucial fact has been covered with lies during Amir and Hassan’s childhood by some important character in the story of The Kite Runner. The first one is
Baba, of course, as how he wants to save his good reputation in the society of Kabul from the fact that he has a half Hazara son. Just because The Kite Runner is
told through Amir, thus it is logical that the truth will never reveal because Amir himself does not know about it. Amir should know the truth that he has got
someone else whom he can call brother, more than just a friend and a household maid. Amir just knows about it when he comes back to Afghanistan in order to
visit his friendly uncle, Rahim Khan. Rahim Khan cannot hold anymore on keeping the secret because he thinks that the time for Amir to be familiar of the
important fact has come. By Rahim Khan, Hassan is told born from Baba and Sanaubar’s intercourse Hosseini 205.
The revelation of Hassan’s real position in Baba’s family indeed shocks Amir. Amir has been aware of the fact that he has both abandoned and ever let his
brother down without any of his assistance Hosseini 72. It is clear that he suddenly hates Rahim Khan and all the people who have prevented him from the
fact that Hassan is truly his family member. He must remember of his mean actions that he has done to Hassan years ago when he is a child. It comes to
Amir’s thought that he will not ever do the clock and money trap things if he has been told before about this. On the other hand, Hassan will not have to feel low of
what he has ever become in his life because he is too, a son of a wealthy man in
Kabul. The dream that Hassan ever wants to come true is actually a reality which has been hidden away i.e not only to become Amir’s best friend, but more
appropriately to be Amir’s brother, in fact. In the beginning it only tells that Hassan is just a son of Ali, who is later
on acknowledged included to those who hide Hassan real blood line history from his recognition. Hassan is truly a Hazara-Pashtun boy as we can conclude from
the story. Socially, he has made a possibility of Afghan’s new historical tribal problem where a half Pashtun boy has ever been born. Through this half blood
born, Hassan deserves his honor as one of the Pashtuns fairly. He deserves honor as one of Baba’s sons, as well. Truly, Hassan actually has his power of position
needs to be considered by people around him. In a conclusion, the truth of Hassan’s position in Amir’s family is that he
is a son of Baba. Then it makes clear if Hassan is someone who deserves to be very precious for Baba because Hassan is his son, too. Naturally, Baba must love
Hassan much as he should to Amir in spite of Amir’s lack of personality as a boy. It is shown from the fact that Baba never forgets about Hassan’s birthday. He buys
Hassan various presents from year to year. Once, Baba surprises Hassan by giving him a Japanese toy truck, an electric locomotive and train track set Hosseini 41.
On the day when Ali and Hassan have taken a big hard decision to leave Baba’s house because of a rejection from Amir, Baba cries a lot and unwittingly shows
how great he cares about Hassan and Ali.
4.2.1.2 Baba’s Treatment to Amir and Hassan
