Quotes From 'The Kite Runner'

one of Amir's biggest mistakes which he will regret for the rest of his life. Biblical allusions are often

“ For you, a thousand times over”. This one sentence sums up the immense love, loyalty and friendship Hassan had for Amir.

In Runner, Robert Newton conveys that Charlie the protagonist is bound to mature early to make completely selfless choices. When his father dies, Charlie is contrived to fill his father’s boots, meaning he had to take up his father’s role of being the financial provider of his family. Additionally, Charlie makes an altruistic choice by running for squizzy Taylor. Lastly, Charlie makes the self-sacrificing decision by gambling his large saving from Squizzy on the Ballarat Mile. In summary, Newton demonstrates that Charlie is forced into adulthood early through necessity and make self-denying decisions due to his family's desperate circumstances.

One of this novel’s themes is the ability to redeem oneself by removing political and religious barriers and fighting for what is right, without allowing obstacles to prevent such action. In the first quotation presented, Amir redeems himself for hiding money beneath Hassan’s mattress to frame him for larceny. Years later he has “planted a fistful of crumpled money under a mattress” (pg. 254), this time it’s to provide for an impoverished household. This is Amir’s way of starting to apologize to Hassan. The subsequent quote presents Amir realizing that the only way to be released from his past is by repenting. Amir says ““I have a wife in America, a home, a career and a family”. But how could I pack up and go back home when my actions may have

The love and disputes between father and son. The relationship that Amir has with Baba is quite complicated. Amir constantly tries to earn Baba’s love and respect while Baba has a hard time accepting how Amir is and compares him to Hassan. While travelling to Pakistan in the back of the truck Amir felt sick quite often by which Baba was quite annoyed. “I saw it on his embarrassed face the couple of times my stomach had clenched so badly I had moaned. When the blurly guy with the beads-the praying woman’s husband-asked if I was going to get sick, I said I might. Baba looked away.”In addition to this when Amir throws up, Baba apologizes to the fellow passengers to which Amir feels guilty and annoyed that he is just 18 and the way Baba is behaving is as if car sickness is a crime. This suggests that Baba was expecting Amir to be more self controlled and strong so that he didn’t feel sick showing us the conflicts he has with Amir as he expects a lot from him.

As a foreword, the story of The Kite Runner focuses on a man named Amir. In his childhood, he enjoyed a high-class life in Kabul, Afghanistan, living with his father Baba. They have two servants, Ali and his son Hassan. They are Hazaras, a lower class ethnic minority in Afghanistan. In one Winter of their childhood, Amir and Hassan participate in a kite-fighting tournament; the goal is to be the last kite flying. When a kite is cut, boys chase after it as a

This quote is spoken by Amir after he met Rahim Khan. This is a narrative quote as he is not speaking to any characters in the novel but himself and the audience. In this passage, the themes that are portrayed are brotherhood, and change. The theme of brotherhood is evident when Amir says “My brother’s face, Hassan had loved me once...” (Hosseini 239). This shows that Amir has finally admitted the brotherhood between Hassan and himself. Hassan and Amir have always been friends/brothers, Amir just would not adopt the reality because of the fact Hassan receives more affection from Baba and it makes Amir jealous. Now, Amir calls Hassan “brother” over the guilt. The theme “change” is present as Amir says “but a little part of him lived on. It was in Kabul, Waiting” (Hosseini 239). This quote shows that Amir is now determined to make a change, to go to Kabul and save

The first sentence of the quote foreshadows Amir’s struggle to forget the past throughout the rest of the book. He claims that no matter how hard you try or how far you bury it, the past will always “claw its way out”. Also in this sentence, Amir implies an occurrence of a tragic event without actually telling the readers what it was. In the last sentence Amir speaks of peering into an alley later revealed as the alley where his childhood friend, Hassan, was raped. By saying this he is telling the readers that the alley and the events that occurred in the alley are constantly on his mind and have been on his mind for the past twenty-six years. The fact that it has been twenty-six years also verifies the importance of the event.

Hassan had said this exact line to Amir, in their childhood, which represents how Hassan is just a Hazara to Amir, who is very loyal. Finally, Amir evolves and treats Sohrab, his nephew, like a dominant

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.

Honesty and respect are among many qualities that deep relationships carry, especially loyalty. In Khaled Hosseini’s novel, The Kite Runner, he uses two young boys to convey his theme, “loyalty is not freely given, it is learned.” This theme is portrayed as Hosseini uses examples of devotion from his character, Hassan, to teach Amir what defines loyalty. While these two boys grow up together and form a friendship, a life-changing event splits them apart, only to take Amir twenty-six years to discover the truth of their past, their fathers, and their lives.

At first, Amir does not seek to earn redemption. We know that he is ashamed at what he has done but he prefers to hide his guilt rather than confess and redeem himself right away. After the incident, Amir attempted to avoid Hassan at all costs. Even when Hassan approached him to see if he wanted to go for a walk, like they used to do frequently, Amir refused to go with him and told him to go away (88). He knew that he didn't deserve his friends unwavering love and loyalty.

Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner is a remarkable coming-of-age novel describing and revealing the thoughts and actions of Amir, a compunctious adult in the United States and his memories of his affluent childhood in the unstable political environment of Afghanistan. The novel showcases the simplistic yet powerful ability of guilt to influence decisions and cause conflict which arises between Amir’s childhood friend and half-brother, Hassan; Amir’s father, Baba; and importantly, himself. Difference in class The quest to become “good again” causes a reflection in Amir to atone for his sins and transform into the person of which he chooses to be.

The Kite Runner is a book that was written by Khaled Hosseini from a young boy’s perspective named Amir who lived with his father, Baba, and two Hazaras named Ali and Hassan in Kabul, Afghanistan. They lived here during the Russian War and had escaped to America to find peace and happiness. We learn about Amir’s childhood struggles and his efforts to be what his father wanted him to be and to be a good friend like Hassan is to him. Amir knows that Hassan is better than what he deserves; he knows he is guilty through his secrets and his selfishness. Materialistically, Amir and his father had a good life and treated Ali and Hassan quite well, but we discover that there is a reason for the good treatment that they receive from mainly Baba.

He steals the Amir of the right to have a parent with the qualities of a proper father figure. This neglect and lack of parental interest were the source of the problem prevalent throughout the novel, and the terrible events that accompanied him. All I ever wanted was Amir approval of his father. However, nothing I did could curry favor with Baba again. He ignores the interest of Amir for writing, it returns the same amount of love that Amir had him, and refrains from showing pride in his son. Lately, this isolation cultivates the feeling of jealousy and cowardice in Amir, preventing you save Hassan from being raped. During the kite fighting tournament, Amir cuts the second kite and Hassan, his best friend and servant, run for it. The comet represents the desire to be accepted by Amir Baba. Was denied proper lifelong father figure, and he believed the blue kite was the key to his father's heart. It is therefore incongruous that Baba wants Amir to defend what is right and not be a coward, but a coward and Baba decides to ignore Amir for wanting to confront their unresolved problems. Baba is responsible for Amir's cowardice and jealousy that led to the terrible events that took place in his childhood. The novel illustrates the need for a father figure, showing how a child fighting for a bond between father and son, and the consequences that may arise due to the measures taken to