I Have A Dream Analysis

Amir's entire life had been haunted by what he saw happen to Hassan. Although he was a child at the time, he couldn't accept his shortcoming during a time of need. He was jealous of his father for being able to stand up for himself and others and Hassan's undying loyalty to him. He developed a pattern of behavior - of covering up his mistakes and hiding his past – that he could not rid himself of until he suffered like Hassan did. He made it up to Hassan by saving his son, and he made it up to himself by suffering the way he

When Amir finds out that his childhood best friend, Hassan, was really his half brother, he was left in shock. He was even more shocked when, moments later, he was told Hassan was shot and killed by the Taliban, leaving his boy orphaned. Amir was terrified at the thought of what he needed to do. Rahim Khan asked Amir to visit knowing that Amir needed to fix the mess he created. His his lasting notes to Amir where, “There is a way to be good again, a way to end the cycle. With a little boy. An Orphan. Hasson’s son. Somewhere in Kabul” (227). The only way that Amir can begin to be

Events like Rahim Khan's phone call to Amir's "way to be good again," Assef not forgetting who Amir was because of what Hassan did, and what Sohrab did to Assef all follows this theme of past events becoming relevant in the present and the future. Overall Amir with his story, redeems himself from what he did to Hassan by Rahim Khan's "way to be good again" by taking Hassan's son Sohrab from a bad place, and back to America to make up his action of not doing anything to prevent the rape of his half brother Hassan, giving his son a right to a better future, away from Kabul, away from the Taliban, and most importantly, away from Assef, the threat to the main characters of the story. Courage is something Amir was scared to do at first but overcomes it and does an act of courage, by fighting Assef for

“A boy who won’t stand up for himself becomes a man who can’t stand up to anything” (Pg. 22) Amir hears Baba say this to Rahim Kahn one night, after witnessing Henry Kissinger a chapandaz (Pg. 20) in the Buzkashi (Pg. 20) tournament being trampled by horses. This reveals an important trait about Amir – his cowardice – which is what put Amir in his conflict of sin and guilt, Amir runs away when he witnessed Hassan being raped by childhood bully; Assef. Instead of helping his friend, and later to be found out – brother, and sends him on a 26-year journey of overcoming his demons and redeeming himself.

”It is wrong what they say about the past…about how you can bury it. Because it claws its way out” He must conquer the favour asked of him by Rahim to recover Sohrab, Hassans son. It is on this mission that he encounters Assef once again and it is here that he finally finds his full healing. Assef being the twisted man that he is beats Amir leaving him heavily wounded. Amir finds solace through his self sacrifice for Sohrab. He feels he has made up all the troubles with Hassan, through Hassans son. While being beaten, rather than being filled with feeling of anger or frustration, he is overwhelmed with happiness. “I felt healed. Healed at last.” A weight long sitting on his shoulders in now relieved, he is no longer the coward he had been before.

His selfish bias making it impossible for Amir to begin earning redemption. This is again proven when he returns to Pakistan to visit Rahim Khan. Rahim Khan pleads with him to try and get Amir to rescue Sohrab, his nephew, from Kabul, but Amir refuses: “‘you know,’ Rahim Khan said, “one time, when you weren’t around, your father and I were talking. And you know how he always worried about you in those days. I remember he said to me, ‘Rahim, a boy who won’t stand up for himself becomes a man you can’t stand up to anything’ I wonder, is that what you’ve become?’ I dropped my eyes. […] Finally, I settled for this: ‘Maybe Baba was right’” (Hosseini, 221). When given the choice to defend his honour and go rescue a young boy, or insult himself and look at the world through a negative lense, Amir chooses to adopt an incredibly negative persona, as per his past. He chooses to refuse the opportunity to experience empathy and relate to Rahim Khan’s desperation and pain, and instead drives a wedge between their relationship. Pushing himself further away from the redemption he craves so desperately. As a fear of empathy inhibits one’s ability to find redemption and uphold healthy relationships.

Amir’s journey starts when Rahim Khan calls him up, telling him, “There is a way to be good again,” (Hosseini 202), provoking Amir to revisit his buried past. The words spoken by Rahim Khan resonates with Amir, because for his whole life, that was exactly what he was looking to do. During Amir’s childhood, Rahim Khan has always been like a father figure to him, filling the holes in his heart that Baba never paid attention to. Rahim Khan has always been the most empathetic towards Amir, understanding his need for affection and motivating him to put his words to action. Years later, Rahim Khan is still seen to have a significant impact on Amir’s life. Despite knowing that Amir was a bystander

One of Amir's prime qualities of his personality is being able to redeem himself. Throughout the story, Amir makes horrible decisions like running away as Hassan is raped, and strives for the affection of his father through jealousy. Although he makes a lot of mistakes, Amir proves that he can be a sharpened person towards the end of the story when he tries to adopt Sohrab, Hassan’s son. Amir and Sohrab eventually go to America, and when Amir and Sohrab talked, Amir told him, “I won’t ever get tired of you, Sohrab...Not ever. That’s a promise. You’re my nephew, remember (Hosseini 324)?” Amir greatly redeems himself by taking care of Sohrab

“Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be.” - Daniel J. Boorstin Freedom is something many in America take for granted. They don’t realize that there are still so many slaves in other countries. They wish they could be living the “American Dream”, unfortunately they can’t. Freedom

After the betrayal of Hassan, Amir feels ashamed of himself. He feels all of the guilt and does not know how to become good again. He feels this guilt for the majority of his life, even in America. Subsequently Amir and Baba moved to America, Amir meets a girl. He always finds excuses to go see her and finally decides that he wants to marry her. So Baba went to go ask her father for permission and he said yes. Shortly after receiving this news, Amir talks with Soraya, his wife, and she does something that Amir has wanted to do for quite a while, she tells him her secret. Amir “envied her. Her secret was out, spoken, dealt with. [he] opened [his] mouth and almost told her how [he’d] betrayed Hassan, lied, driven him out, and destroyed a 40 year

When Amir is first introduced to the reader, he appears to have an issue related to his past. This is seen when he mentions that “the past claws its way out ” (1) and that he can not get away from his actions. The reader is then shown Amir’s childhood, and what he has done had made him into what he is today. It is then made clear that everything he did in his past was for his own sake. Every single decision he made as a child was to better himself. He had only thought about what he had wanted

Today we accept that freedom is a basic right human right but what exactly is freedom. 1On one hand, there is physical freedom. People who are not imprisoned or enslaved are free. On the other hand, there is freedom as a the right to act, speak or think what you want. People cannot reach their full potential if they are not free in both senses of the word.

Freedom is a feeling as well as a state of being. It can be both internal and external. Although it is nearly impossible to achieve true freedom, many people are able to find a balance between everyday stress and letting go. For example, imagine a bird in a cage. Internally, the bird is free to think and desire anything, but externally, it is trapped inside a cage and therefore limited in where it can go and what it can do. The bird has accepted that it will be in a cage forever but this sadness can be balanced out with the knowledge that it will always be cared for and loved.

What freedom means to me is everything. I mean there really is no other way for me to explain it. If it were

Freedom is being able to worship the God of my choice, in the way I see fit, without fear of ridicule, reprisals, or discrimination. It is the ability to speak my mind, and express my feelings freely and openly, even if unpopular, without fear of oppression, suppression, or imprisonment. Freedom believes in, and celebrates, the unique God-given rights and gifts of every individual man and women. Freedom is strong and bold and proud. It does not fear. It will not waiver.