Chapter 4

Chapter four does not demonstrate many specific examples of evil except right at the ending where a truly evil side of Amir comes out. Hassan asks a question about Amir’s story and a cold voice said, “What does he know, that illiterate Hazara? He’ll never be anything but a cook. How dare he criticize you?” (p.37). This voice was obviously in his head and was a dark thought of his own. This is yet another example of his selfishness. He referred to his childhood friend as a Hazara, which is degrading and rude to someone he was supposed to be close with. He also calls him illiterate and said all he ever has to potential to be is a cook; these are all extremely rude and unnecessary comments just because Hassan asked a simple question. The reason he woke Hassan up in the first place was so he could get more positive feedback on his story just to feed his own ego. He was over confident of his story after what Rahim Khan had said, so he took the opportunity to soak it up even more and when that did not work out for him, his dark side appeared.