The interactions between Amir and Hasaan provide the reader with a lot of insight into the reasons why Amir is the way he is at the time being. One thing that really resonated with me was the interaction they had when Amir told Hasaan, who was being genuinely curious, that the word "imbecile" actually meant someone who was smart and intelligent. Hasaan, not knowing any better and having complete faith in Amir, believed him. This simple, yet meaningful interaction between the two boys led me to realize that the uneducated are art the mercy of the "intelligent". Now, I say intelligence within quotations because intelligence is very much relative.
What makes someone smart? Reading a few books, memorizing facts, knowing how to find the circumference of a circle? I feel like many people claim to be knowledgable because they have a degree, but in reality all that is, is memorizing sums of information. Though it does take a great deal of "knowledge" to do such things, shouldn't knowledge be more of how well you can get yourself through life? Nonetheless, my point is that because society has deemed knowledge something that comes from school, something that accompanies reading and writing, etc the "fools" are slaves to the intelligent. A fool will know no better than to believe something a supposedly smart person tells them. They will have faith that the smart are actually smart and they will believe what they are being told just like Hasaan believed what Amir told him with out a single doubt... all because Amir was the "smart" one.
- Talia Akerman
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