Amir said that Rahim Khan had been wrong about the mean streak thing. That means Amir consider himself as a person who has some bad thing in nature.Amir is long for the appreciation from his father but Baba doesn't like this kind of boy who is quiet and a sort of timid.Instead, he thinks Hassan is better.
Amir is jealous of Hassan just for this reason and expresses his grievances to him. At end of Chapter 3, Amir snaps at Hassan even though he didn't make any mistake. What's more, in Chapter 4, Amir is so happy when Hassan clapped for his first story and said that he'll be a great writer in the future.However, when Hassan raised a question about his story which Amir didn't want to accept at all, Amir considered Hassan as a illiterate Hazara soon. I think these are the mean streaks which Amir mentioned, the harsh attitude to Hassan.
Yingchen ZHAO
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A good explanaton in the end.It seems there are not any mean streaks in Hassan.
ReplyDeleteYingchen, good job of interpreting this quotation! I think you also do a good job of describing Amir's mean streak. Please try to be more specific and concise (short) in your examples from the text. I also agree with Jun that Hassan does not seem to have a mean streak!
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