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Redemption In The Kite Runner

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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

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