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You want my advice? Run away. That's what you do best.
~ Assef taunting Amir.

Assef is the main antagonist of Khaled Hosseini's 2003 novel The Kite Runner and its controversial 2007 live action film adaptation of the same name, as a teenager he rapes Hassan, a member of the Hazara minority whom he looks down on. As an adult, he becomes a high-ranking member of the Taliban, and takes children from orphanages to rape and torture them.

In the 2007 film adaptation, he was portrayed by Abdul Salam Yusoufzai as an adult and by Elham Ehsas as a teenager.

Personality[]

Assef was always a sadist who harms younger children, especially those of the Hazara minority. He comes from a wealthy family, with a politically connected father who gets him out of trouble. As an adult, he uses those connections to become a high-ranking member of the Taliban - not out of any particular religious devotion, but simply as a way to have power over other people and commit acts of cruelty and violence.

He is especially keen on sexual violence, raping those weaker than him to keep them under his control. He is also a bigot who admires Adolf Hitler and sees the Hazara minority as inferior, and wants to exterminate them, much as his hero Hitler had tried to exterminate all of the Jews in Germany. Assef sees absolutely nothing shameful about his open bigotry, even accepting the term "ethnic cleansing" as one he likes.

Biography[]

Assef first appears with his companions to taunt and bully Amir and Hassan, who are walking down the street. He often questions their friendship, and mocks Hassan with the idea that "he is really just a servant to Amir".

After Amir and Hassan win a kite-fighting competition, Hassan gets lost and ends up in an alley, where Assef and his friends corner him and demand he gives them the kite. When Hassan refuses, Assef decides to "teach him a lesson" by beating and raping him while his cronies hold him down. Amir witnesses the whole thing, but does nothing to help his friend, frozen with fear that Assef will assault him, too. He avoids the guilt by forsaking Hassan's friendship.

Assef attends Amir's birthday party, held shortly before Amir leaves Afghanistan to go to school in the United States, and gives him a picture of Hitler as a "present".

Decades later, Assef is revealed to be a odious psychopath, as he joins the Taliban, and personally murders dozens of Hazara, while also kidnapping and raping several children. After Hassan is killed by the Taliban, Assef kidnaps his son, Sohrab, and keeps him as a sex slave.

Amir, who has come back to Afghanistan to rescue Sohrab, confronts Assef and demands he release the boy. Assef refuses, which results in a physical altercation. Ultimately, Assef loses the fight, and Sohrab uses his slingshot to fire a marble into his abuser's eye, blinding him and giving Sohrab and Amir a chance to escape.

It's unknown what happened to Assef afterwards considering that he was never seen after this, but it's possible that he died from the gunshot wounds during the fight.

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Trivia[]

  • In the book, Assef has blond hair and blue eyes, while in the film, he has black hair and brown eyes, possibly because the filmakers wanted to make him look more Middle Eastern.

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