"The Kite Runner"- Internal conflict

"I'd betrayed Hassan, lied, driven him out, and destroyed a forty-year relationship between Baba and Ali... I suspected there were many ways in which Soraya Taheri was a better person than me. Courage was just one of them" (page 165).

Throughout the novel, there is much internal conflict which is pulling Amir different ways. Most of this conflict is brought about by his regret for not stoping Hassan's rape. His internal conflict begins when he has to decide if he will make up lies to convince Baba to fire Ali as his servant. In the end, his coward side wins and he ends up making up lies which lead to Ali and Hassan quitting the job. He also faces conflict during this excerpt when he isn't sure if he can tell Soraya about his past with Hassan. In the end, he is once again a coward by his standards and is unable to tell Soraya exactly what happened between him and Hassan in the winter of 1975. He realizes that because of his past of sins, he has no right to judge Soraya for her past with another man. He sees his sins of being worse than anything Soraya could have possibly done. The original conflict of his unwillingness to rescue Hassan branches out into all aspects of Amir's life and even in his adult life, this one situation still greatly affects his everyday life.