Kite Runner Redemption Quotes

Hosseini shows that it is Amirs immense guilt that drives him to want to make things right and to earn redemption. We learn the basis Amir's guilt through his memories. It is caused by a lack of response at a time when his loyal servant and close friend Hassan is in trouble. Amir makes a conscious decision to hide in the distance and just watch, not because he was afraid. He sacrifices Hassan in order to earn his fathers attention and affection. This decision results in Hassan suffering though a traumatic experience and is the root of Amir's lasting regret.

Redemption is the act of redeeming or atoning for a fault or mistake, or the state of being redeemed. This essay will follow a young man who goes through a journey of redemption to atone for past mistakes. The novel The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini follows the life of a young boy, Amir, who grows into a man and, like everyone else, makes mistakes along the way. In the novel, Amir tries to atone for past mistakes by seeking redemption. This essay will discuss how the author uses the themes of guilt, betrayal, and forgiveness to showcase Amir's journey to redemption.

Major Character Note #1: The character trait of brave is displayed in this quote. This is because Baba stands up to the Russian officer, even though he could be easily killed by him. The Russian officer wants to sleep with a married woman, but Baba won’t let him do such a thing because he feels it is morally wrong. He believes that war doesn’t exclude decency and that instead, the officer should show respect because of how they are in times of war.

“Come. There is a way to be good again, Rahim Khan had said on the phone just before hanging up” (Hosseini 202). In this quotation, the words have been italicized to grab the reader’s attention. After receiving the phone call from Rahim Khan, Amir realizes that he is aware of everything that had occurred between Assef and Hassan in his childhood (Hassan’s rape).

Redemption can lead people to make decisions that can affect people around them. Amir tries

In the Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini wrote that “true redemption is […] when guilt leads to good” (Hosseini 302). this connection between suffering and redemption develops throughout the whole story. Hosseini hints that sacrifice leads to redemption in the book the Kite Runner through the actions of Baba, Sanaubar’s return, and Amir’s journey to atone for his sins.

Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner is an award-winning novel and considered one of today’s most popular, contemporary classics. The story is one of familiar themes such as loyalty, forgiveness, betrayal, love, and redemption. It follows the tale of Amir and how he must atone for his sins and find a way to “be good again” (Hosseini 2). The quintessential message of this book relies on the idea of second chances. Themes of redemption, betrayal, loyalty, and forgiveness are not only shown without doubt through this book, but are also common among many literary works and religions. Hosseini is successful in showing the significance of these themes throughout the novel.

Amir cannot stand to look at Hassan and seeing the lamb-like eyes, so to make himself feel better about the situation, he frames Hassan. Amir is upset that Baba forgives Hassan but it is ironic because he is the one doing the sinful act and yet again it is Hassan who is saving and protecting Amir. These unfaithful acts are not in fact an act of selflessness but and an act of selfishness. Everything Amir is doing is for himself. He only cares about his own feelings but never is he putting himself in others people’s

Hosseini conveys the turning point when Amir gets on the right path to learning and understanding the true nature of sacrifice by attempting to redeem himself. Amir plants money and his new watch that he got for his birthday under Hassan's bed to make it look like Hassan stole it. Baba brings Ali, Hassan and Amir together and Amir explains that “They’d both been crying; [He] could tell from their red, puffed-up eyes...they stood before Baba, hand in hand, and [he] wondered how and when [he’d] become capable of causing this kind of pain” (105). Hosseini uses this scene to demonstrate the true colors of Amir that he is a liar. This scene also highlights the loyalty that Hassan has towards Amir and his family and but it is not the same from Amir to Hassan. This illuminates Hassan’s loyalty most more than other scenes because as you can tell Baba and Ali were very surprised about what (they thought) Hassan had done because nothing like this has ever happened before. This explains one of the many sins that Amir has and reveals the lying and

While slowly going through a mountain of birthday presents, Amir did not find anything worthwhile and tossed them all aside. Nothing has been in fact worthwhile to him after his act of betrayal to Hassan; even Baba’s approval did not please him. Everything seemed like “blood money” (85) to Amir. He believed that those gifts were given to him as a reward for his betrayal in the alley. However, instead of trying to rekindle his friendship with Hassan and redeem himself, Amir continued to avoid Hassan in an attempt to escape the crushing weight of his guilt. Knowing that he can’t hide forever, he came up with a plan to make Hassan and Ali leave the household. This emphasized the difference between Hassan’s selfless nature and Amir’s selfish ways.

Conflict between guilt and redemption has been one of the big themes of mankind, as it is described in many notable literary pieces and scriptures including the Bible. Similarly, The Kite Runner by Khalid Hosseini vividly depicts a young Afghan man, Amir, suffering between sin and guilt, realizing how he could’ve changed one’s destiny. This story is not merely about repentance, but also about the whole process of realization. Although Amir remains guilty by avoiding Hassan consistently after the betrayal, he seeks true repentance after realizing that apologies towards Hassan are too late.

“I lifted Hassan’s mattress and planted my new watch and a handful of Afghani bills under it… Then I knocked on Baba’s door and told him what I hoped would be the last in a long line of shameful lies.”(Hosseini,104)- The guilt building up in Amir is causing so much tension between him and Hassan that he just wants Hassan to leave. However it won’t be easy because his father will not fire his “family”. Theft is the only sin Baba cannot tolerate and Amir knows this.

According to the Merriam Webster dictionary the word redemption can be defined as “the action of saving or being saved from, sin error or evil”. The novel The Kite Runner is a fictional novel written by Khaled Hosseini. The story is written in the point of view of the main character – Amir, a privileged child in Wazir Akbar Khan neighborhood of Kabul. The story revolves around Amir, and is divided into three parts; Amir’s childhood, his journey to the United States and his journey back to Afghanistan. Throughout the novel Hosseini highlights many themes in the novel including the love and tension between fathers and sons, and the intersection of political events and private lives and sin and redemption.

While Amir is lying in the dark, with nothing but his own thoughts, he feels that his guilt is taking over his life. He realizes that he is going to get away with his betrayal and yet he feels terrible. He decides that the only way he is going to live with his remorse is to ignore Hassan, blot him out, so he does not have to think about his sin. Amir’s guilt is so great that he cannot bear to have Hassan under the same roof, so he commits another sin. He lies to his father and accuses Hassan of stealing. “…I took a couple of the envelopes of cash from the pile of gifts and my watch, and tiptoed out…I lifted Hassan’s mattress and planted my new watch and a handful of Afghani bills under it…I knocked on Baba’s door and told what I hoped would be the last in a long

“For you, a thousand times over.” In The Kite Runner by Kahled Hosseini, there is a recurring theme of redemption that is portrayed by various literary devices. Kahled excellently juxtaposes devices such as irony, symbolism, and foreshadowing to show redemption within his first novel.