Redemption In The Kite Runner

Eventually, Amir received a call from his old mentor, who told him to come back to Afghanistan because "there is a way to be good again." What Amir learned while he visited his mentor would lead him to what he considered redemption. Hassan had been killed, which Amir partially considered his fault, but Hassan's son, Sohrab, was still alive. With the idea of giving him to a good placement organization, Amir set out to save Sohrab. Amir found Sohrab in the possession of a Taliban member, the same man who had raped Hassan when they were children. In order to save Sohrab, Amir had to fight the man, and he was injured very badly in doing so. Despite his injuries, he felt better about himself. He felt free, at peace. He finally had the courage to tell his wife about what he had done, and that took a weight off of his shoulders, as well. Even though Hassan had forgiven him long ago, Amir refused anything less than Hassan's fate.

After some thought, Amir knows that he must go and find Hassan’s son, his nephew to redeem himself for the things he did to Hassan. Amir thinks to himself, “there is a way to be good again, he’d said. A way to end the cycle. With a little boy. An orphan. Hassan’s son. Somewhere in Kabul” (227). After feeling this sense of redemption, Amir does everything he can to bring Sohrab back to America with him, to help him start a new and better life.

While Amir defeats his final obstacle to win Baba’s approval, he reciprocally falls down and fails to show courage in Hassan’s rape. Amir assumes that Hassan “was the price I had to pay, the lamb I had to slay, to win Baba” as he watches Assef sodomize Hassan, and he “actually aspired to cowardice” (77). The atonement of Amir’s sins to Baba sparks the commencement of Amir’s betrayal to Hassan. Furthermore, Amir runs away and hides from his sins in Amerca knowing that he cannot gain the courage to redeem himself and completely fulfill his quest to adulthood. Nonetheless, Rahim Khan provides Amir an opportunity to accomplish his redemption. After decades of hiding, Rahim Khan calls Amir to tell him to “come” back to Kabul since “there is a way to be good again” (192). Amir must successfully accomplish his final obligation to complete his quest to maturity. In addition, Amir must stop hiding like a boy and begin to stand up like a man. As Amir returns to Kabul to save Sohrab, and ultimately redeem himself, he must fight Assef one last time, which results in Amir’s “body being broken – just how badly I wouldn’t find out until later – but I felt healed. Healed at last” (289). Amir now receives his deserved punishment and, most importantly, he learns to stand up and finally matures into a man. Although Amir completes his quest to adulthood, readers must realize that Amir must ultimately grant Sohrab a

He has traveled to Afghanistan to save his nephew he never knew. At this point Amir knows the dangers he faces in the war riddled country but he must seek a way to forgive himself for what he did to Hassan. In his quest to make things right again, Amir confronts Assef, ““WHAT’S SO FUNNY?" Assef bellowed. Another rib snapped, this time left lower. What was so funny was that, for the first time since the winter of 1975, I felt at peace. I laughed because I saw that, in some hidden nook in a corner of my mind, I’d even been looking forward to this.” (Pg. 289) This is a large turning point in the novel. Amir can finally feel like he is doing right by everyone and gaining redemption for his

Once back in Kabul, Amir takes steps he would never have imagined, which truly define his character. On his venture back to Afghanistan he learns the truth about Hassan’s connection with Baba. After hearing this Amir feels robbed of the truth and is angry at how his own father could hold this back from him. Despite his feelings, Amir realizes he must not only pay for his betrayal of Hassan but for Baba’s betrayal of Ali too. Amir knows he must face his fears and he understands this when he reveals, “I remembered Baba saying that my problem was that someone had always done my fighting for me" (Hosseini 239). Following this he undertakes a personal mission to find Sohrab and finds the courage to stand up to the Taliban, nearly dying in the process. During his quest Amir comes face to face with the disturbing Assef and fights him for Sorab, the ultimate sacrifice for his dead half-brother. While he is beaten he begins to laugh, which angers Assef even more. Amir explains that, “What was so funny was that, for the first time since the winter of 1975, I felt at peace" (Hosseini 303). After successfully bringing Sohrab back to California, Amir defends his Hazara nephew when General Taheri insults him. Over the dinner

When Amir arrives to Afghanistan he tries to get Hassan’s son “Sohrab”, he sees Assef has control of the boy. Amir tries to pay Assef for the boy, Assef refuses and pluck a red grape . Put it, lovingly, in Sohrab 's mouth and says "So if I need money, i 'll have them wire it to me" (Hosseini 282). Assef is now with Taliban and he tells Amir about his game “Every night the commandant, would

Amir has carried an exceptionally strong guilt throughout his life for the last twenty-six years for the betrayal of Hassan. Amir is willing to do anything to let go of that guilt, even if it means putting his life in danger. This is the type of chance that Amir now has; he needs to travel to Kabul, a very dangerous place since the Taliban is ruling the country to save Sohrab in order to earn redemption. Amir has left Pakistan and is heading off to Kabul. When he arrives in Kabul, Amir and his driver, Farid, head off to the orphanage where Sohrab is in order to rescue him. However, Sohrab is not there because the director of the orphanage had no choice but to sell him to a Talib official. The only way to retrieve Sohrab now is to meet with

Both Hassan and Sohrab have gone through abuse at the hands of Assef, but Amir ends this cycle of abuse by rescuing Sohrab when he returns to Kabul. This shows how Amir has become nobler and made the decision to do what he feels as morally correct. When he was 12, he witnessed Hassan get raped by Assef in the alleyway and he did nothing to help Hassan. He tried

Just like his father, Sohrab is “great with a sling shot.’ He hits Assef in the eye with his slingshot, and he and Amir escape. The novel’s falling action is Amir’s efforts to bring Sohrab to the U.S. which he eventually was successful in doing. I thoroughly enjoyed this novel. I liked the author’s style and diction, both made the novel a fun and enjoyable read even though there were many dark parts to the novel. At times I found some of the terminology difficult, however I appreciated the setting as it allowed me to learn about Afghanistan. I loved many of the quotes, particularly the one that stood out was, “It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime.” This quote is so true and is the entire basis of this story, if Hassan’s actions had been different “on that frigid overcast day in 1975,”his entire life would have been different. I am thrilled that Amir was able to find peace and redemption as this shows strength of Amir’s character. I felt that Amir deserved his final redemption, however I wish that both him and Hassan would have known from early on that they were

Unfortunately, Sohrab’s suffering under Assef has caused him to recede into such a depression, that he converses very little, even when Amir offers his friendship. Rahim Khan gives Amir letters from Hassan and Amir learns that the letters are old and that Hassan and Farzana were brutally murdered by the Taliban. Amir finds out about Sohrab’s existence when he visits Rahim Khan in Pakistan. “They named him Sohrab, after Hassan’s favorite hero from the Shahnamah, as you know, Amir

Amir receives a letter from Rahim Khan describing a way to be "good again," or in other words; a form a redemption for his sins. Amir ultimately achieves redemption by rescuing Hassan's son Sohrab from the Taliban. Another example found in the book relates to Hassan and his son Sohrab. When Hassan was a teen, Assef rapes him resulting in some miserable years. At the end of the book, Shorab nails Assef in the eye with a slingshot to rescue Amir.

Amir thinks to himself that if he wins a kite tournament that Baba won when he was Amir's age then he could be forgiven for killing his mother during childbirth. “ Maybe he’d call me Amir jan like Rahim

Moreover, Amir’s sacrifice is also to help free Sohrab from Assef. Even when Amir would like nothing more than to leave Afghanistan, he stays—to help Sohrab. He spends countless hours talking to lawyers and on phone calls to ensure that Sohrab will never have to live in the “captivity” of an orphanage again.

This occurs when Amir receives a phone call from a close friend who lives in Afghanistan. His friend, Rahim Khan, informs Amir that he is seriously ill and tells Amir to “Come. There is a way to be good again” (Hosseini 192). After wrestling with his guilt for the past twenty years, Amir has an internal realization and is compelled to return to Afghanistan. Within a week, Amir had journeyed back to Afghanistan where he could atone for his sins.

After receiving a call from Rahim Khan, telling Amir that there is a way to redeem himself, Amir sets out to Afghanistan to discover this path of redemption. After arriving at Rahim Khan’s Amir learns about Hassan’s life before he was killed. Listening to Rahim Khan tell him of Hassan’s life after Amir left Afghanistan only opens Amir’s eyes to the horrors of Afghanistan after the Taliban took over. He is heartbroken and shocked