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Hassan

Physical Description

Green Eyes

Low Set Ears

Mongoloid Features

Harelipped

Self-Sacrificing: Hassan shows an affinity for self-sacrifice that is perhaps more of a weakness than strength at times

It was Amir's idea: "Never told that the mirror, like shooting walnuts at the neighbours dog, was always my idea" -Amir (Hosseini 4)

Causing trouble was always Amir's idea

Hassan Never Lies: "'Did you steal that money? Did you steal Amir's watch, Hassan?'...'Yes'" -Conversation between Baba and Hassan (Hosseini 111)

Hassan should have defended himself

Hit Me Back!: "He opened it up and crushed it against his own forehead" -Amir (Hosseini 98)

Hassan hurt himself rather than Amir, even though Amir needed to be hurt

The Look of a Lamb: "Hassan didn't struggle...Saw the resignation in it. It was a look I had seen before. It was the look of the lamb." -Amir (Hosseini 81)

A Sacrificial Lamb

Wisdom: Hassan shows that he is naturally wise and intelligent multiple times in the book

There is No Monster: "Maybe Hassan had made up his dream. Was that possible? Hassan wasn't that smart." -Amir (Hosseini 66)

There is no monster in the lake

A Dark Time For Hazaras: "'God help the Hazaras now'...'The war is over Hassan...There's going to be peace...happiness, and calm...No more killing'" -Hassan and Rahim Khan on the state of Kabul after the Taliban take over. (Hosseini 224-5)

Taliban Member

An Open Book: "How could I be such an open book to him when, half the time, I had no idea what was milling around in his head?...Hassan couldn't read a first-grade textbook but he'd read me plenty." -Amir (Hosseini 65-6).

Amir, as seen by Hassan

Plot Hole: "Why did he ever have to feel sad to shed tears? Couldn't he have just smelled an onion?" -Hassan (Hosseini 36)

The Dreaded PLOT HOLE!!!!

Gentle: Hassan is always kind, and never seems to like hurting people

The Punishment I deserve: "'Hit me back'...I wished he'd give me the punishment I craved" (Hosseini 98)

Hassan would never hit back

So Pure: "That was the thing with Hassan. He was so goddamn pure," -Amir (Hosseini 62)

Annoyingly Good

One-Eyed German Shepard: "I talked Hassan into firing...his slingshot at the neighbor's one-eyed German Shepherd. Hassan never wanted to"- Amir (Hosseini 3-4)

The Neighbours German Shepherd

Birth: "even in birth, Hassan was true to his nature: He was incapable of hurting anyone." - Amir (Hosseini 11)

An Easy Birth

Family: Hassan's Family was always very important to him. He always tried to take care of and forgive every single family member he had

Sanaubar: Biological Mother "She was home now, [Hassan] said, home with her family" (Hosseini 222) Rahim Khan telling of when Sanaubar returned after 26 years.

Forgiving one's mother

Amir: Biological Half-Brother

"What will [Amir] think when he comes back to Kabul... and finds that I have assumed his place in the house" -Hassan (Hosseini 219)

Hassan waiting for Amir to return

"You Know what always happens when those neighborhood boys tease him? Hassan steps in and fends them off" -Baba (Hosseini 24)

Hassan always steps in

Baba: Biological Father "'[Baba] was like my second father'...In mourning for [Baba], Hassan wore black for the next forty days"-Rahim Khan describing Hassan's actions (Hosseini 219)

Father and son