Mistakes In The Kite Runner

“There is a way to be good again” (2). This is the line that rolls through Amir's mind over and over throughout Khaled Hosseini's novel, The Kite Runner. This is the story of a mans struggle to find redemption. The author illustrates with the story of Amir that it is not possible to make wrongs completely right again because its too late to change past. In this novel Hosseini is telling us that redemption is obtainable, and by allowing us to see Amirs thought process throughout the novel, Hosseini shows us that it guilt is the primary motivation for someone who seeks redemption. Hosseini also uses not only the main character, but other secondary characters to show how big of a part that guilt plays in the desire for redemption. In this

In the novel The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini tells a notable coming-of-age story portraying the actions and thoughts of Amir, a penitent adult living in the United States and his reminiscence of his affluent childhood in the unstable political environment of Afghanistan. Throughout the novel Khaled Hosseini uses character description to display his thoughts on sin and redemption.

“Sometimes, the person you’d take a bullet for ends up being the one behind the gun” (Picture quotes). People are not what they seem; selfishness and greed can play a huge part in betrayal. Betrayal often comes with great consequences of guilt or a need for forgiveness. Most often, it is driven by selfish desire, greed, hatred or lust. In most cases, the act of trying to redeem oneself becomes a prolonging guilt stuck for the rest of one’s life. Learning to forgive oneself becomes the passage to gaining the desired redemption. In the novel The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini, Hosseini displays the theme of forgiveness and redemption. After Amir and Baba’s betrayal toward those most loyal to them, they realize that one must forgive themself

“True redemption is when guilt leads to good,” Rahim Khan asserts. Khaled Hosseini compels the readers to think in the novel, The Kite Runner, by analyzing Amir’s quests. Additionally, readers must understand Amir’s journey to maturity throughout The Kite Runner, as a Bildungsroman novel. Amir’s journey to redemption ultimately accentuates his quest for adulthood.

How, after years of guilt, self-disgust, and deception, is it possible for one person to become good again? Entrapped in a cage of cowardice for so long, can they ever develop and grow as a normal human being? Amir, the anti-hero in Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner, seeks to answer these questions in his own search for atonement through various existential events in his life.

Telling lies is the only sin according to Amir’s father Baba, and like Amir children are still human and humans make mistakes. Rahim Khan should have been disappointed at Amir for his loyalty towards Hassan because it was basically nonexistent. When you’ve had a life long friend at the time it makes betraying them a whole lot worse. 3. Later, this secret lead to Amir wanting to blame Hassan for stealing so that he would not be his servant anymore, hopefully letting himself be able to forget his terrible decision of watching Hassan getting raped in the alley then running away and not making any helpful action. Later, we see he had never forgotten. As Rahim Khan tells Amir, “There is a way to be good again.” (Hosseini, 202) which is by going

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.

When Amir and his wife, Soraya, can’t seem to have a child, Amir believes that it is because of his wrongdoings in the past. Right up until Amir is in his 30’s does he confront his mistakes. It takes a call from Rahim Khan to persuade him that there is ‘a way to be good again’ (Pg. 2). Amir knows that he needs to make up to Hassan for the wrong that he did all those years ago, and so by confronting his mistake and trying to redeem himself by rescuing Sohrab, Hassan’s son. Amir’s confrontation with Assef when he is getting back Sohrab made him feel like he was confronting his mistakes and gaining redemption ‘For the first time since the winter of 1975, I felt at peace… In some nook in a corner of my mind, I’d even been looking forward to this.’ (Pg. 265). This is the punishment and redemption that he has been waiting all these years for, because Hassan wouldn’t punish him all those years ago when they were under the pomegranate tree.

It’s alway easy for people to recall their glories. However, some people take mistakes as shames. For me, I remember my glories and never regret to make mistakes. Like Khaled Hosseini said in The Kite Runner, “That was a long time ago, but it’s wrong what they say about the past, I’ve learned, about how you can bury it.” There are some mistakes that you never forget, whether it’s tremendous or tiny.

“There is a way to be good again” (2) is not only a relapsed statement in Khaled Hosseini’s first novel, The Kite Runner, but also a reoccurring theme in his second novel, A Thousand Splendid Suns. Through the comparison of his two novels, the characters ultimately struggle to find their personal road to redemption. The protagonist of The Kite Runner, Amir returns to Afghanistan to redeem himself of a memory that has been haunting him for the past twenty-six years by saving his half-nephew, Sohrab. In A Thousand Splendid Suns, Mariam's endeavors to be redeemed are achieved through self-sacrifice - and having a reason to die for. Throughout the course of each of the characters’ lives, their ultimate goal is deliverance

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.

Philosophy, one of the most open and free studies men and women can explore and master. It’s moral dilemmas and ideals used extensively across the multi-cultural spectrum to express freedom and redemption to all. One such form of expression, unbounded by ignorance and restrictions, is literature. The author of the book The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini, excellently uses his mastery of the art of literature to express the philosophical ideas of redemption through the uses of imagery, excellent and heart-tugging storytelling, and consistent use of flashbacks. He does so to express that everyone has the inalienable right to redeem themselves and be “good” again, regardless of past traumas and hardships.

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini tells the coming of age story of the main character Amir. Throughout the novel, many themes are apparent as Amir gets older and deals with the events of his past. One of the main themes is regardless of any action there is always a way to redeem yourself. There are many examples of this theme in The Kite Runner, like when Rahim Khan tells Amir that he can redeem himself, another would be when Assef beats up/hurts Amir but he feels healed, finally were Amir is flying a kite with Sohrab and he smiles. The theme of redemption is present throughout the events of the novel.

The search for redemption is a common theme in many pieces of literary work. From the beginning of “The Kite Runner”, the main character, Amir is looking to redeem himself in the eyes of his father. Particularly because his mother died giving birth to him and he feels responsible. Amir longs to be the son he feels his father has always wanted, which leads him to entering the kite running contest. Unbeknownst to him, the kite running contest would lead him to start searching for redemption for reasons he never thought he would have to. Amir watches his life long friend and servant, Hassan be sexually assaulted. The guilt from that incident drives him to go back to a war torn Kabul many years later, in search of a late Hassan’s orphaned son. Amir’s father tells him early on in the book “A boy who doesn’t stand up for himself becomes a man who can’t stand up to anything”(Hosseini 22), these words linger in Amir’s mind. As a child Amir never stood up for himself, so in turn as an adult he felt the only way to redeem himself was to do what was right and

Khaled Hosseini writes in the first chapter of The Kite Runner, “There is a way to be good again.” In our world of sin and regret, the main character Amir, who feels a lack of goodness, isn’t the only one seeking a path to redemption. Although Hosseini initially writes The Kite Runner as a pseudo-autobiographical narrative to seek resolution on personal issues, the novel was chosen as one of the titles for the 1st World Book Day, a testament to The Kite Runner’s ability to speak across diverse cultures. Hosseini’s first book raises a haunting question that spans the universality of the human experience: how do we rectify the sins of the past? Given that mistakes are fundamental aspects of human nature, how do we achieve atonement and redemption?