Hassan's Son Symbolism

Eventually, Amir received a call from his old mentor, who told him to come back to Afghanistan because "there is a way to be good again." What Amir learned while he visited his mentor would lead him to what he considered redemption. Hassan had been killed, which Amir partially considered his fault, but Hassan's son, Sohrab, was still alive. With the idea of giving him to a good placement organization, Amir set out to save Sohrab. Amir found Sohrab in the possession of a Taliban member, the same man who had raped Hassan when they were children. In order to save Sohrab, Amir had to fight the man, and he was injured very badly in doing so. Despite his injuries, he felt better about himself. He felt free, at peace. He finally had the courage to tell his wife about what he had done, and that took a weight off of his shoulders, as well. Even though Hassan had forgiven him long ago, Amir refused anything less than Hassan's fate.

Sohrab, the son of Hassan, serves as a means of salvation for the ‘tortured soul’ that is Amir. Having attempted to neglect his past, he has learnt “the past claws its way out”, leaving him an ‘insomniac’ whilst residing in America. The

This blue kite is what sparks Amir's quest for redemption. In addition, symbolism is shown to portray redemption at the climax of the book. Amir has rescued Hassan's son, Sohrab, from captivity in Kabul. However, a recent life of sexual abuse has rendered his emotions inert. Attending an Afghan summer celebration, Amir notices a kite-fighting tournament taking place. Purchasing a kite for him and Sohrab, they accomplish in cutting another. Looking down at Sohrab, Amir sees the vacant look in his eyes is gone. “Whistles and applause broke out. I was panting. The last time I had felt a rush like this was that day in the Winter of 1975, just after I had cut the last kite, when I spotted Baba on our rooftop, clapping, beaming. I looked down at Sohrab. One corner of his mouth had curled up just so. A smile. Lopsided. Hardly there. But there” (Hosseini, 391). Thus Amir redeems himself, and thus it is shown that symbolism portrays redemption throughout the story.

Amir watches his best friend Hassan get assaulted by Assef and some of his friends in an alley on the way home from the kite tournament. However, Amir does not go and defend Hassan and struggles to forgive himself. Fast forward in the story Amir has been living in America for some time and decides to go back to Kabul to save Hassan’s son Sohrab who he had never met. “From the past that had come calling. And from this one last chance at redemption” (Hosseini 231). In other words, Amir is saying that if he doesn’t do this there is nothing he can do to redeem himself for what he did in the past. This will lead to how Amir will be willing to do anything to save Sohrab even if it means risking his life and leaving his family behind.

One may experience situations that challenge their survival. Sometimes a friend’s betrayal or violence may be an aspect that challenges their survival in life that changes them short-term or has a long-term effect in life on the person you hurt or even yourself too. Everyone has their own definition of

Amir made a “decision based on pure faith” to save Sohrab, which he believed was a right choice in order for him to obtain redemption. Another way wrong can be made good, is by satisfying oneself through doing whatever it takes to remove guilt and frustration caused by the mistake. As stated by Dr. Harra, she proclaimed that it is very important to “[detach] from the pain, frustration, and bitterness buried within”. Similarly in The Kite Runner, the author displays Amir’s emotional feeling which hints him to adopt Sohrab, in order to once and for all, remove the “pain, frustration, and bitterness” he feels internally. The tone of the following passage shows ambition and satisfaction from Amir for that he now has “brought Hassan's son from Afghanistan to America, lifting him from the certainty of turmoil and dropping him in a turmoil of uncertainty” (356, Hosseini). The satisfactory tone informs the reader that Amir knew that the only way he could conceal the issue he has been thinking of since childhood, is by taking in Sohrab in order to be more mentally fulfilled. However, such betrayal of Hassan, is not easily if not ever made good again, in the views of

“We were all born with a moral obligation to leave this world a little bit better than we found it” (Mcilrath). Amir finally forgives himself thus reaching redemption. After he fights Assef he wants to become a better person and be the father that he never had. Baba not only had sins of his own but gave some of his sins to Amir. Amir redeems these sins and will “leave this world a little better than” what he was born into. Sohrab was told that he would have to go

My theme is betrayal. Betrayal is important in this text because it give more intrest to the reader. Betrayal give a dramatic effect of what happens next. This text involves hassan and amir’s betrayal that was shocking to all. Most importantly,the betrayal that drives Amir's quest for redemption. We also

Though the roads Hassan and Sohrab traveled on their way to resilience appeared to be parallel, they separated in an instant. Hassan’s difficult past was never able to discourage him for long. After each of his troubles, he was able to go home to Ali and sometimes Amir. He also had the love and support of

When Sohrab is in the hospital he is under suicide watch. Amir doesn't know how bad Sohrab actually is. Sohrab explains to Amir about how he wants his old life back. How he wish he would have died. When Amir says he wants Sorab to go to America with him, he doesn’t respond so Amir makes the travel arrangements. Soraya treats Sohrab with great affection when he arrives but Sohrab was yet to change. When Sohrab arrived, Soraya and Amir wanted to sign him up for swimming and soccer. As time goes on in this everyone is starting to lose interest in Sohrab, “The poor mute boy”. When Amir and Sohrab are in the kite flying, Amir tells Sohrab about the good tactics that Hassan used to do to win. When Amir performed those tactics and won he

There, Amir met Soraya and quickly married her before Baba had the chance to die from lung cancer. Their opportunity of having a baby slipped, especially when Amir’s ‘caretaker’ calls him and tells him about Hassan’s wife and son – Faranza and Sohrab. Amir went to fetch Sohrab so he can be taken care of since Hassan and Faranza got shot to death, but failed when Amir was notified that someone else adopted Sohrab. Both the movie and book depicts Amir’s struggles of getting Hassan’s son back from the bully who raped Hassan and sexually abused Sohrab. Finding Sohrab with makeup and feminine touches, Amir tries to save him but Sohrab ended up sparing both of their lives by aiming his slingshot to Assef’s – the bully’s –

One common quote distinguishes some similarities between Hassan and Sohrab: “like father like son”. For starters, both are tormented repeatedly by Assef: sexually, physically, and emotionally. Assef routinely bullied Hassan as a child and teased him about his father by calling Ali “Babalu”. His abuse reached a climax when he beat and raped Hassan in the alley because Hassan would not give up the blue kite that he rightfully ran. Similarly, when Assef purchased Sohrab from Zaman, the orphanage director, he made him his slave. He forced Sohrab to dance, and abused him physically, sexually, and emotionally. Both Hassan and Sohrab symbolize the lamb. Amir “sacrifices” Hassan in the alley scene so that Amir could gain Baba’s acceptance. On the other hand, Zaman “sacrificed” Sohrab to Assef so that he could buy the children food at the orphanage. Astoundingly, both

To better understand this theme, consider how important this is for Sohrab. Losing your parents through murder is heartbreaking. Being in an orphanage traumatizes you. These two things make you scared. Here comes Amir, risking his life for your new one. He’s bringing you to a loving family, who doesn’t

On page 279, Amir sees Sohrab in real life for the first time. Details about Hassan from the beginning of the book are mentioned again, this time about his son. Hosseini uses the descriptions of Hassan’s ears, chin, round face, and his frame to compare Sohrab to his father. The mention of these details yet another time makes the audience reminisce about Hassan and then feel slightly grateful that his child seems to be like him, so he can live on. Sohrab is generally a character without a lot of details, and the purpose for this could be to make him seem more mysterious. Amir isn’t supposed to understand Sohrab and neither is the audience, because it’s hard to know why someone acts a certain way when you don’t know exactly what they’ve been through. Although the audience knows that both Sohrab’s parents were killed and Assef has abused him, it’s still hard to wrap your mind around what he might be thinking. Since the lack of details implies mysteriousness, bring the reader back to when Baba couldn’t understand Amir. This is a completely different situation but in a way, it’s similar, and it may be put in the book to show

He wants to win the kite competition so badly because he is hoping to rebuild a close relationship with his father by not letting his father down. While Amir shares a similar desire with Sohrab, Hassan inherits the most precious points of Sohrab's personality, which are the loyalty and the self-sacrifice. For Hassan, Amir is his most important person not only because Amir is his master, but also because of the hidden consanguinity between them. Although they both don't know their true relationship at that time; Hassan has already regarded Amir as his closest relative since according to Ali, "there is a brotherhood between people who had fed from the same breast, a kinship that not even time could not break" (11). Like Sohrab, Hassan is willing to do everything for the one he cares about the most, even sacrifice himself in order to accomplish Amir's greatest wish.