Quotes From 'The Kite Runner'

Selfishness is the concern for oneself or to act to one’s own advantage (“Selfish”). Humans are naturally selfish and they tend to want the best for themselves. In Khaled Hossieni’s novel The Kite Runner, Amir is the son of a wealthy businessman that lives in Kabul, Afghanistan who only thinks about himself. Amir shows this through his actions towards Hassan. Amir struggles to call Hassan his friend due to the social standards in Afghanistan. Amir’s selfish actions are exemplified; this is proven through the pressure from society, the jealousy and insecurity felt due to his lack of a loving father and the actions that ultimately lead to his unfaithfulness to Hassan.

statement: “It was the look of the lamb.”(page 76). This was when Assef raped Hassan in Amir's

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.

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 boy Amir fails to stand for himself, as an adult he can only atone himself by proving he has the courage to stand up for what is right. When Amir decides to fight Assef who was a part of Taliban to save his nephew, Sohrab ,is the time when he achieved atonement because he feels that finally he was punished for never stepping in and trying to protect Hassan because of his cowardice. “What was so funny that for the first time since in winter of 1975 I felt peace. I laughed because I saw in some hidden, nook in a corner of my mind, I ‘d even been looking forward to this... But I did now know my body was broken badly, I wouldn’t find out until later- but I felt healed at last, I laughed.” (Hosseni Khaled

True redemption is the ability of a person to entirely forgive oneself after doing an unethical or immoral deed. Some think true redemption is reachable, others do not. In the novel, “The Kite Runner”, author Khaled Hosseini makes it apparent that he believes redemption is achievable. The main character’s actions show the determination of a man that wants to make up for all of the horrible things he did as a child. Amir made many bad decisions during his childhood that brought great amounts of grief and guilt to him. The novel tells of his journey to fix what he broke and make up for the things he took away from others. Hosseini shows the reader that redemption is most definitely attainable through his writing.

As well there is Baba, who is another important character who shows courage by first taking in Ali and Hassan, who are part of the Hazara, a minority group, and letting them serve in his household as a servant, even though they are Hazaras: “Amir, Hassan, and their fathers live together in a well-off neighborhood of Kabul. The Hazaras act as servants to their Pashtun superiors, but are also part of the family, clashing with the social norm” (Spiegel 2007).This was a courageous act since the whole Pashtun community is against the Hazaras living in his household as it violated the normal rules and expectations of the Kabul community and it would have been considered a deviant act in a sense. This does not only show his act of courage but also

Amir killed his own beloved mother that use to be Baba’s wife and Ali’s mother. The only way to be forgiven is to get the blue kite from Hassan, who was in the state of being raped. It seems like Hassan is the price to get Baba’s love. Baba’s only concern is that Amir would grow up as a man who couldn’t stand up for what is right. The choice that he made was to flee which was a complete opposite of what Baba wanted. If Amir had stood up for Hassan but lose the kite, Amir would still earn Baba’s love. Proving to him that he has confidence in

Fear manipulates the life of a young boy named Amir to the point he has to seeks redemption for his bad deeds, forcing him to break his inner shell and to finally grow as a person in the realistic novel, The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini. Amir was not born fearless. Trials and tribulations were inevitable for him to overcome this flaw in life. Opportunities were cut short and friends were lost because of this trait that he procrastinates to overcome. A prime example of fear manipulating Amir’s life is when his father neglected him as a child. He was not a bold kid like his best friend Hassan. That difference was disliked by Baba since he is a fearless man. Townspeople admired Baba’s bravery, but the only thing that Amir was seen as by Baba

“This was Hassan’s final sacrifice for me… He knew I had betrayed him and yet he was rescuing me once again.” (Chapter 7) Betrayal in the novel Kite Runner, written by Khaled Hosseini, has many clips of betrayal between the characters. In this particular quote, it was Amir betraying Hassan. The main conflict of betrayal in the Kite Runner deals with the protagonist, Amir betraying his “best friend”, Hassan.

Back during the 1930’s, German leader Adolf Hitler told British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain that if the Germans got what they wanted there would be no need for war. Chamberlain trusted Hitler and gave him Sudetenland, which consisted of northern, southern, and western areas of the bygone Czechoslovakia. Hitler’s dishonesty to Chamberlain ultimately ended up causing World War Two, which would result in over 60 million deaths. In The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini, characters like a privileged boy named Amir constantly speaks fiction and influences the plot. The theme of honesty portrays an impactful and damaging role in the novel. The truth factor of characters’ words influences the plot by showing how lies the characters tell can impact oneself and others in both positive and negative ways. In turn, Amir was unfair to his servant and later revealed half-brother, Hassan, by achieving his own worldly gains instead of helping Hassan reap benefits. Furthermore, the Taliban spread fear among the Afghan society, causing people to interpret standard Afghans as the Taliban and be dishonest to them.

“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

Urja Amin Ms. Behnessilian ENG 3U0-I Monday May 23rd, 2016 Part II- Notes for The Kite Runner ‘Yes.’ I flinched, like I’d been slapped…: Hassan knew. He knew I’d seen everything in that alley, that I’d stood there and done nothing. He knew I had betrayed him and yet he was rescuing me once again, maybe for the last time” (88-89) • Self-reflection • Loyalty • Guilt “Baba stunned me by saying, ‘I forgive you’”

thirdly, the Maze prompts to have the strong relationship with parents. “You’ve got to learn to stand on your own two feet… you’d want your dad to be proud of you, would not you? But words alone hadn’t given her a backbone. Not even the memory of a war correspondent father, killed in some scuffle in a far-off land with an unpronounceable. So, brave in the face of danger. A hero. This passage tell audience at the end it is our parents who help us in our thin and thick it doesn't matter if we are far away from them. As Sabrina is stuck in the maze she is remembering her parent's word that is motivating her that soon she will out from the maze. She swallowed. Mom, is that really you? Silence. It probably did not last for longer than a couple

I believe there were many instances of conflict in The Kite Runner revolving around Amir, the main character and narrator. He dealt with the struggle with himself for years after making Hassan and his father leave Amir’s home, He dealt with the struggle to win his father’s approval until his father died, and he struggled with God by the end of the book. In Khaled Hossenini’s novel, The Kite Runner, Amir struggles with conflict from a mistake and a hardship from his childhood which effects him the rest of his life through conflict with others, conflict with himself, and conflict with God. There are several instances. Amir struggles with himself and other people which effects how he interacts with life, people, and God. He is haunted by events from his childhood and builds confidence to stand up for what is right and be outspoken in his beliefs and morals once he is an adult.