Do the characters seem real and believable?

The Kite Runner introduces us to many different characters. These characters all have different characteristics, they act in different ways and they were each their own person. These characters were portrayed in such a way that they were perceived to be very believable. The characters in this novel go through very real situations and very real changes and the way these scenarios are wrote out in the book make the reader really feel for these characters and take them as real people going through real horrible situations that were depicted in the story. The two main characters in this book are pictured below, Amir and Hassan. Amir and Hassan went through the whole book together and both went through very different situations. We see Amir, the son of a very rich man who gets mostly what he wants except for his fathers love. This is a characteristic that many people would be able to relate to and be able to really get into character. Next, we have Hassan, he is a slave boy who is happy as he can be just being friends with such a man as Amir.  There friendship is seen as one forbidden to their culture but we see there relationship grow and fall in many different ways throughout the novel. These changes to their friendship are very harsh at times and sometimes graphic, the situations they go through are horrible and really gets the reader attached to these kids and want nothing but good things for the both of them. The story portrays what growing up in Afghanistan and Pakistan was really like and the characters actions and mind set really made them seem real and believable characters. 

   

                                   

Amir and Hassan, the Sultans of Kabul.