ANDREW KH LAM GL2 ANALYTICAL ESSAY 1
Happiness is what everyone looking for throughout their life. However, is our option
or the congenital condition more affecting our persuasion of happiness? The answer is
differed. In novel The Kite Runner, the two main characters Amir and Hassan have
polar different congenital conditions included race and family background; it is
logical to assume the one born to be more privileged would be happier. Yet, through
the story we find that the options we make seem to account for more than what we
were born to have when we pursue happiness in our life. Although Amir and Hassan
were given birth to have different standard of family and race, happiness is more
about the choices they have made.
This essay will first talk about how Amir and Hassan are born in privilege and
toughness respectively, and then the essay will analyses how Amir’s choices have
brought him to a dead end. Lastly the essay will show its readers how Hassan’s
choices have granted him happiness and peace.
Hosseini has put Amir and Hassan into two different worlds from the very beginning
of their life, a fruitful one and a hash one. Amir is the son of Baba and a Pashtun
woman, which makes him born to be superior in Afghanistan as well. In Afghanistan,
Pashtun is the majority, they regard themselves as more superior, most of the
important positions in government are occupied by Pashtuns, as a result, most of the
time Pashtuns are more wealthy (Oppression, n.d.). Amir, lives in “the most beautiful
house in the Wazir Akbar Khan district” (Hosseini, 2003), he has his own bedroom
and two servants catering everything in his house. He has his breakfast ready
everyday before he goes to school; he uses chair and table when he studies. All of the
things Amir has suggest that Amir is from a very wealthy family when compared with
