The Kite Runner written by Khaled Hosseini is taken place in Afghanistan in the 1980’s; it focuses a young boy named Amir. As he after witnessed his friend Hassan get raped and did absolutely nothing to stop it, Amir has intended to escape his past. He set up Hassan for stealing and made him get sent away because Amir can't longer face Hassan knowing that he has intense shame for not helping his friend. Almost about twenty years later, Amir has relocated to America and is still haunted by his own actions. After being informed that Hassan is his half brother, he is planning on making an altering for him. Amir travels back to Afghanistan and discovers that the corrupt government that now has full authority of Afghanistan and has killed Hassan. …show more content…
Amir has intensely backstabbed his best friend (half brother), Hassan by an act of exclusion. Amir didn't bother to stop his friend’s assault nor didn't tell anyone what had happened, he just remained silent. He additionally made Hassan's life much more difficult by not speaking to him because of the guilt he had. Amir also laid stolen items underneath Hassan's bed to make it look as though Hassan has stolen from Amir and can accuse him later on. "I sat on a park bench neat a willow tree, I thought about something that Rahim Khan said just before he hung up, almost as an afterthought. There is a way to be good again. I looked up at those twin kites, I thought about Hassan." (2) Throughout the novel we learned that in the beginning Amir has been living in extreme guilt his entire life for what he had done to Hassan. When he received that phone call, he knew that he had to go back in order to redeem himself and to become good again for the things he had done to his friend. As he traveled back to Afghanistan, he found out that Hassan has been killed and now has his son, Sohrab, in an orphanage and Amir must rescue him so he can take him back to America to protect and care for him to make it up for his dear friend
Redemption is what the whole novel revolves around. Redemption occurs when Amir feels at peace when Assef tries to kill him. `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 hook in the corner of my mind, I had been looking forward to this. (303) The quotation portrays Amir`s sorrow towards all the things he did to Hassan. He believes being killed would repay himself. For all the wrong he did to him, all throughout the novel, Amir was dishonest, and disloyal to Hassan. Amir always took Hassan for granted, and believed that he was his directly leftovers, that he could throw around and demand anything from him. Furthermore, this is also adds to Hassan standing up for Amir, by psychically fighting
Amir had always regretted his actions that day in the alley and wanted to repay Hassan by taking his son Sohrab to America with him. As soon as Amir saw Sohrab, he saw Hassan in him and wanted to do anything he could to help and resolve his guilt. He wanted to take Sohrab back to America with him so he could have a bed, food, shelter, and a good life. Amir knew “there are a lot of children in Afghanistan, but little childhood”
Finding redemption is often the only way many people can escape the demons of their past. Actions have consequences and those consequences haunt people for the duration of their lives. Khaled Hosseini, the author of The Kite Runner, presents seeking redemption throughout his novel by sharing the breathtaking story of Amir, a Sunni boy who struggles to forget his guiltridden past. Despite his greatest efforts, Amir finds it impossible to bury his past, so he returns to his home Kabul, Afghanistan to redeem himself of his wrong doings. By incorporating
His journey to Afghanistan to seek redemption forms a way for him to realize what is truly important in life. Although Amir’s unintentional barbarity to Hassan is terrible, he is able to overcome his past sins and achieve personal salvation by confronting his actions and doing good. Amir is an ordinary boy and though his behavior harms Hassan, he is not cruel or sadistic. Rather, his evil deeds take a more benign form, disguised as a need to please his father.
In The Kite Runner, redemption is an important factor as sin is present throughout the novel. Amir opens the story by explaining to us not precisely how he sinned, but about sin's endurance throughout: "... It's wrong what they say about the past, I've learned, about how you can bury it. Because the past claws its way out." As Amir recounts the story of his life he measures each event against sin, his betrayal of Hassan. Even before Amir betrays Hassan, he comes to the thought that amongst his family and friends he is the only character who needs redemption, the only sinner. When Rahim Khan reveals Baba's secret, Amir learns that he is not the only one in need of redemption. Throughout Amir's whole life he constantly attempts to match Baba, he does not realize that baba was so hard on him due to the guilt of his own sin, both he and Baba had betrayed.
Amir, before going into a flashback, receives a call from Rahim Khan and that one call transforms his life. Rahim Khan tells him that “There is a way to be good again” and Amir’s new life takes a turn once again (Hosseini 2). Later, Amir goes to Kabul to meet Rahim Khan; Rahim Khan reveals a secret that gives Amir the final opportunity to redeem himself and repent for his betrayal of Hassan. He learns that Hassan and his wife were “shot” by the Taliban and their son, Sohrab, was moved to an “orphanage” (Hosseini 220). He also learns that Baba “was married once before, to a Hazara woman” and Hassan is an illegitimate step-brother (Hosseini 222). The truth is out in the open, and Amir is shattered because he sees that actual kinship exists between him and Hassan. He is unable to understand the reality of his own life, and he questions everything in his past. The opportunity to save his nephew from the dangerous Taliban ruled Afghanistan, appears to be the only chance for Amir to repay his best friend, his stepbrother, and his protector: Hassan. Amir went on the journey to save his nephew from the horrific Taliban, and the circle of life was almost complete for Amir. He had left his friend to be raped by Assef and here he was again where either he could let the little child live a life of misery or face
The development of characters and theme Redemption is the action of regaining or gaining possession of something in exchange for payment or clearing a debt. Redemption was a major theme in the novel, The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini. Redemption was a main theme in the book; this theme is exemplified by Amir, Baba, and Soraya and who they turn out to be by the end of the novel. The development of Baba’s character was greatly affected by his own redemption, which helps develop the theme in the novel.
In The Kite Runner, Amir was on a quest for redemption. Throughout his entire childhood, he struggled to redeem himself to Baba for “killing” his mother while giving birth. Baba was always disappointed by Amir because he was nothing like him. After Hassan got raped by Assef, which Amir witnessed but never did anything to help him, Amir spent every second of his life trying to redeem himself to Baba, and Hassan. Amir goes back to Afghanistan in an attempt to save and adopt Hassan’s son, Sohrab, after something terrible happens to Hassan.
Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner is a compelling story of loyalty, betrayal, and redemption. The story begins with the mention of an event that happened in the winter of 1975 that narrator, Amir, claims made him who he is. This event is the rape of his best friend and servant Hassan, in which Amir is a silent witness. The overwhelming guilt and anger he feels toward himself for not intervening guides Amir's decisions for years to come.
It is not until years later in the second half of the book, and long after Amir has moved to America, that he attempts to redeem himself for his betrayal of Hassan. Fittingly, due to the cyclical structure, Amir must return to Afghanistan. He is called back by the pleading of his father’s old friend, Rahim Khan, whose dying wish is to see Amir redeemed. At Rahim Khan’s direction, Amir returns to the village from which he originally fled. He is meant to find Hassan’s orphaned son and return him to Pakistan where, supposedly, a couple is waiting to adopt him.
The Kite Runner was written by Khaled Hosseini the main characters of the book are Amir, Baba, Rahim Khan, and Hassan. The kite runner is about 2 youngs boys who grew up in afghanistan named amir and hassan. Amir is of a higher class then Hassan who is Amir’s servant. Amir’s father baba is a rich man and the family owns servants. Amir and Hassan are close friends until Hassan is raped by a older boy named Assef who bullies both of them. After this Amir is wracked with guilt and pushes Hassan away to try forget what happened. Amir frames Hassan for theft and Hassan and his father leave the family. Later Baba and Amir are forced to flee to america by the russian invasion. Amir lives in america and gets married until he gets a call from Rahim Khan a friend of his father who tells him that he has a chance to redeem himself by saving Hassan's son Sohrab from the taliban who have killed Hassan. Amir goes to
At some point in a every person’s life personal battles dealing with the guilt of a committed sin or discretion will be faced, some larger or smaller than others. Though, through the process of redemption people can find a peaceful state of mind helping to make up for that cause of guilt in the first place. In Khaled Hosseini’s novel, The Kite Runner, the quest to seek redemption from major guilt in the past is very evident for one of the books main characters, Amir. Amir has been living in guilt and throughout his whole life has been continually seeking redemption of his childhood when he betrayed his best friend, Hassan. One day, many years late he has the chance to go to Afghanistan to seek back that redemption and find peace for his life.
One of the most primary ways to achieve redemption is through the means of acceptance. At the same time, a majority of people who are not ready to accept their mistakes will either end up making another mistake or live their entire life in guilt. This situation can be observed in Khaled Hosseini’s “The Kite Runner” when Amir attempts to achieve redemption by accusing Hassan for theft. Before Amir could accept his mistake, he attempts to redeem himself by intentionally tempting Hassan to fight back and speak up. However, this attempt backfires on Amir when Hassan and Ali decide to leave Baba’s house after accepting and apologizing for Hassan’s mistake. Therefore, acceptance plays a key role in redemption. Meanwhile, there are multiple variations of
The Kite Runner, a book telling a story of betrayal and redemption, is griping work that can make its readers quite emotional and thrilled. In this book, Amir and Hassan, two boys who are close friends to other, both are interested in kite flying. They live in the capital of Afghanistan, Kabul. All they want is to win the kite-fighting tournament, by which Amir will win his father's love. However, war begins in Afghanistan. Life becomes extremely dangerous in there. In this war, Amir is forced to betray his best friend Hassan, which will bother him in the rest of his life. Amir’s father takes him to fly to the United States.
The Kite runner is a movie featuring a man named Amir. Amir remembers event that happened twenty-six years prior, when Amir was still a boy in Afghanistan, and believes that it made him the person he is. He lived in a home in Kabul, a place is Afghanistan, with his father, Baba. The family had two workers, Ali and Hassan. Afghanistan’s king is overthrown, and things begin to heat up. One day, Amir and Hassan are playing when they run into a group of boys. They threaten to beat up Amir for hanging around with Hassan, but Hassan uses his slingshot to stop the group of boys.