Somewhere in the novel, Amir's way of acting with Hassan changed completely and he actually ended up doing horrible things to him. Why do you think that happened?
Do you think it was because he loved him so much, or because he was a coward that could not handle knowing that the bad things that happened to his friend were his fault?
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It seems to me that Amir's new demeanour towards Hassan has to do with his lack of maturity and capacity to deal with his own error. If Hassan had slap him, as Amir asked, his act would erase or diminuish the weight of Amir's error. But Hassan liked Amir too much to do something like that. So Amir was in a positions wherein he can not escape easily: his friend likes him a lot to punish him, but what he really needed was to be punished in order to feel relieved. To be honest I don't know who his the one who suffered the most: Hassan or Amir?
Because if Hassan suffered, and I bet he did not only phisically but also psychologically, he had always known that he was the victim. But Amir had to bear the psychological and intimate suffering of knowing that he was guilty and didn't even got a punishment... and he suffered all this by himself. He was his own punisher, 24/7.
Is this tricky or merely over interpretation?
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