My New Favorite Character

Okay, so, as you can probably tell from my continuous character analysis posts that I haven't been making a lot of time to read this book. At least not enough to actually analyze something important. I recently read a lot at a time and I guess Hassan has really grown on me since the beginning of the book. I didn't exactly like him in the beginning, I figured he was kind of holding Colin back. But it's really the other way around. Colin is a jerk. I mean, I'm sure he'll change by the end of the book, but he's a jerk. Hassan has finally started to do his own thing and stop babysitting Colin.

During the section I just read, Hassan and Colin get into a fight. Hassan is excited to tell Colin that he actually kissed an attractive girl, and Colin doesn't even look up. Hassan expects Colin to be excited for him since Hassan has been there for him every single time Colin has gone through a break up, he has listened to all his romantic rants about how great every Katherine is. And now Colin can't be happy for him because Hassan went and had fun without him. Colin accuses Hassan that he's been turning into "everyone else". But Colin can't hold Hassan back forever. Colin just wants Hassan to understand his stupid, pointless "theory" about why people get dumped. And Colin can't understand that it's not important. Even if there was a way to calculate why some people get dumped and why some people do the dumping, it's not worth it to figure it out. Hassan is happy with his new girl and he doesn't have a dumb formula leading him around. I think Hassan really wants Colin to just be happy and let go of his fears of doing something unethical.

To be honest, I don't really like Colin right now, I'm on Hassan's side.