After Amir narrates his first short story to Hassan, Hassan recognizes the irony in it almost instantly. Hassan questions, "if I may ask, why did the man kill his wife? In fact, why did he ever have to feel sad to shed tears? Couldn't he have just smelled an onion?" Ironically, Hassan, though illiterate and uneducated, identifies the plot hole in the educated, gifted writer Amir's work. Amir comments that Hassan “couldn't read and had never written a single word in his entire life.” Hassan is the only one to recognize the solution to the character's dilemma. Another irony involves the contrast between Hassan and Amir. Since birth, Hassan has been loyal to Amir, providing him with unconditional love. Amir, on the other hand, does not reciprocate Hassan's feelings and abandons Hassan. In the Baba's eyes, Hassan is more courageous and loyal whereas Amir is more weak and pusillanimous. Hassan eventually and ironically changes Amir by saying, "For you, a thousand times over." Even though Amir fails to rescue Hassan, he saves Hassan's son Sohrab. Amir and Hassan's role switch when Amir is telling that quotation to Sohrab, finally reciprocating the unconditional love conveyed by Hassan. Hassan has not experienced it directly, persay, but it has been recognized by
After Amir narrates his first short story to Hassan, Hassan recognizes the irony in it almost instantly. Hassan questions, "if I may ask, why did the man kill his wife? In fact, why did he ever have to feel sad to shed tears? Couldn't he have just smelled an onion?" Ironically, Hassan, though illiterate and uneducated, identifies the plot hole in the educated, gifted writer Amir's work. Amir comments that Hassan “couldn't read and had never written a single word in his entire life.” Hassan is the only one to recognize the solution to the character's dilemma. Another irony involves the contrast between Hassan and Amir. Since birth, Hassan has been loyal to Amir, providing him with unconditional love. Amir, on the other hand, does not reciprocate Hassan's feelings and abandons Hassan. In the Baba's eyes, Hassan is more courageous and loyal whereas Amir is more weak and pusillanimous. Hassan eventually and ironically changes Amir by saying, "For you, a thousand times over." Even though Amir fails to rescue Hassan, he saves Hassan's son Sohrab. Amir and Hassan's role switch when Amir is telling that quotation to Sohrab, finally reciprocating the unconditional love conveyed by Hassan. Hassan has not experienced it directly, persay, but it has been recognized by