Redemption In The Kite Runner

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.

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

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.

    Amir had been disloyal to Hassan his whole life. He did not stand up for Hassan when he needed it most and Amir even ran away when he could have helped Hassan. Amir constantly tortured Hassan as he tried to make Hassan eat dirt, throw fruit at him, or even when he tried to get Hassan to punch him. Amir wanted Hassan to stoop to his level and beat him up, so his guilt would disappear.

Shortly after this event, Rahim expresses to Amir, “And why you? I think we both know why it has to be you, don’t we?” Rahim knew about Amir watching Hassan die and do nothing at all to help. Earlier on in the book, Amir flashes back to when he was a young boy and would set up Hassan to try and get him to leave. He used to hide money under Hassan’s bed to make it look like he stole it.

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 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

Though Hassan was his best friend, Amir feelt that Hassan, a Hazara servant, was beneath him. He passively attacked Hassan by mocking and taunting him. Amir never learned how to affirm himself against anyone because Hassan always defended him. All of these factors lead to Amir not being able to stand up for Hassan when he needed him most.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

While Amir is lying in the dark, with nothing but his own thoughts, he feels that his guilt is taking over his life. He realizes that he is going to get away with his betrayal and yet he feels terrible. He decides that the only way he is going to live with his remorse is to ignore Hassan, blot him out, so he does not have to think about his sin. Amir’s guilt is so great that he cannot bear to have Hassan under the same roof, so he commits another sin. He lies to his father and accuses Hassan of stealing. “…I took a couple of the envelopes of cash from the pile of gifts and my watch, and tiptoed out…I lifted Hassan’s mattress and planted my new watch and a handful of Afghani bills under it…I knocked on Baba’s door and told what I hoped would be the last in a long