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CHAPTER 5 CONCLUSIONS AND SUGGESTIONS
The conclusions and suggestions are presented in this chapter. The former part concerns about the conclusions of the analysis in a previous chapter and it
contains the answers to the problem formulated. The latter part presents the suggestion for further research and the implementation of teaching through this
novel in Prose II class.
5.1 Conclusions
Human is a social creature who always relates to another. Therefore, friendship is important for human to develop himself. Through friends, people
learn and develop to find themselves. Friendship for children is important to develop their personalities. Friendship in childhood is the basic step of human for
his next stage of development. The importance and meaning of friendship is presented in the character of Hassan and Amir by Khaled Hosseini. Based on the
analysis in chapter 4, I will draw some conclusions in order to answer the questions formulated and I will state the conclusion in each character.
In the novel, Hassan’s social status and his father affect his personalities. He is a diligent young boy. He is also a loyal person since he shows his great
loyalty to Amir several times without hoping for anything in return and without being asked. He always defends Amir when they play outside and gives him some
support when Amir is feeling down.
Besides, Hassan is also mature for his age. He is about one year younger than Amir but he seems like an older brother for Amir. Moreover, he is a skillful
boy. He is deadly with his slingshot. He never forgets to put his slingshot in his trousers wherever he goes. He uses his slingshot also as a weapon to defend Amir.
The second major character is Amir. He has spent his twelve years of childhood with Hassan, his servant. Almost everything that he does with Hassan
has built a friendship between the two of them. First it is characterized that Amir is rich. It is because Baba is a successful businessman. He runs a wildly successful
carpet exporting business, two pharmacies and a restaurant that makes him to be one of the richest men in Kabul.
Another characteristic of Amir is that he loves reading books. He prefers to read his book than playing football. He is also afraid of getting hurt, that is why
he is considered as a coward. Moreover he is not only a coward but also childish in facing his problems. He prefers to run away from a problem rather than face it
and solve it. The second problem formulation is about the meaning of friendship for
Hassan. It covers some of Hassan’s reasons for regarding Amir as his best friend and the meaning of friendship for Hassan. In regarding Amir as his best friend,
Hasaan has three specific motivations. They are Amir as his master, keeping his status and Amir as his only friend. His reasons in respecting Amir as his master
and keeping his status become his motivation to still regard Amir as his best friend even after receiving some betrayal. Those reasons belong to the second
level of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs which is safety needs. His last reason which
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