What's my Opinion on The Kite Runner?

"Please leave us alone, Agha," Hassan said in a flat tone. He'd referred to Assef as "Agha," and I wondered briefly what it must be like to live with such an ingrained sense of one's place in a hierarchy.

Assef gritted his teeth. "Put it down, you motherless Hazara."

"Please leave us be, Agha," Hassan said.

Assef smiled. "Maybe you didn't notice, but there are three of us and two of you."

Hassan shrugged. To an outsider, he didn't look scared. But Hassan's face was my earliest memory and I knew all of its subtle nuances, knew each and every twitch and flicker that ever rippled across it. And I saw that he was scared. He was scared plenty.

Opinion:

This scene shows that Assef ("Agha") is brutal. He is the defenition of a bully, in my opinion. Even if Hassan kindly asks Assef to leave him, and Amir, alone, Assef continues to pick on him. He treats Hassan as if he was some kind of animal. Think about it; a dog's master will order the dog to do whatever he wants the dog to do. This is how I imagine this situation. Assef is acting like he is better than Hassan.

"Put it down, you motherless Hazara.'' This shows that Assef looks down upon Hassan, and maybe it is because he is a Hazara.

The part where the soldiers talk trash about Hassan’s mother was not cool at all. It was not what a normal person would say to a young child looking for his mother. If I was one of the soldiers, I would have at least kept quiet and avoid the question for the sake of Hassan. If I lost my mom, and I was looking for her, I would want to hear something good about her, not how my mom was a decadent woman without any thought about my life. That would scar me for my life.