These prophetic words are uttered at the beginning of the book by Assef, Hassan's attacker. Assef and his gang demand Hassan give him the blue kite he has retrieved for Amir. Hassan refuses. Assef calls him a "pathetic fool" for being loyal to Amir, a Pashtun, but Hassan asserts they are true friends. Assef says one day Hassan will wake up from his "fantasy," suggesting that a.. That man, Assef, is the primary external antagonist of the novel. In the beginning of the novel, he rapes Hassan because Hassan is a Hazara and refuses to betray Amir by giving Assef the kite that Amir won. When Amir returns to Afghanistan after years of living in America, in order to rescue Sohrab, he finds that Assef has joined the Taliban.
Assef's Cruelty In the novel The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini we are introduced to Assef, a character that deliberately goes out of his way to embody pure evil in his actions to both Amir and Hassan. Certain actions that Assef initiates towards the boys foreshadows his innate cruelty and future position of power in the Taliban.. Assef is the main antagonist of the 2007 drama film The Kite Runner based on Khaled Hosseini's 2003 novel of the same name. A sadistic, depraved sociopath, as a child he was a vicious bully who liked to dominate, harass, and sexually abuse others. As an adult, he is a member of the Taliban and the head of a child sex trafficking ring. Assef is also a virulent racist who believes in Nazism and.