Sin And Atonement In The Kite Runner

The Kite Runner is the first novel of Afghan-American author Khaled Hosseini. It tells the story of Amir, a boy from Kabul, Afghanistan, whose closest friend is Hassan, a young Hazara servant. Novel turns around these two characters and Baba, Amir’s father, by telling their tragic stories, guilt and redemption that are woven throughout the novel. Even in the difficult moments, characters build up to their guilt and later on to their redemption. Their sins and faults alter the lives of innocent people. First, Amir and Baba fail to take action on the path to justice for Ali and Hassan. Moreover, Amir and Baba continue to build up their guilt due to their decisions and actions. Although Amir builds up more guilt than Baba throughout the novel, he eventually succeeds in the road to redemption unlike his father. After all, Amir and Baba have many chances to fix their atonements but Baba chooses not to and Amir does. Baba uses his wealth to cover up his sins but never atone himself while Amir decides to stand up and save Sohrab and finally finds peace. Amir and Baba’s reaction to sins essentially indicate their peace of mind and how they react to guilt and injustice.

Conversely, Amir grows up to be a man who achieves holistic atonement. As a child in Kabul, he overheard his father tell Rahim Khan, “A boy who won’t stand up for himself becomes a man who can’t stand up to anything” (Hosseini 22); however Amir

Amir’s misadventures begin as a boy living in an affluent Afghanistan world. On the day of his birth, his mother hemorrhages to death. Robbed of any feminine influence or comfort, he goes to his overshadowing Baba for love and acceptance. His father denies his only son the tenderness he desires, leading Amir to believe his father despises him. After all, Amir’s

Everyone makes mistakes sometimes, from minor to major mistakes. But the most important part is not the mistake itself, but how hard that person is trying to fix that mistake. This also applies to the novel The Kite Runner. The story revolves around the main character Amir, and his childhood friend, Hassan. After Amir came to America with Baba, his father, he still regrets the things he had done to his childhood friend. He left Hassan getting raped by Assef in a small alley in 1975. Thereafter, Amir always feel regret and seeks for redemption. Hosseini -the author, argues that redemption can be achieved by helping others, teach others not to repeat the same mistake and acknowledge your mistake and try to fix it.

The world copes with different aspects brought forth in life. Mankind deals with the urge of sin and redemption by an consequence of an action. How you react with sin punishment detects your future. Sin consequences depend on the standpoint in an individual culture. In Khaled Hosseini’s novel The Kite Runner, the theme redemption plays the central role by introducing sins endurance, and how affects have a toll on human beings.

We humans make mistakes, and usually we pay the price for the actions we take. In The Kite Runner, a novel by Khaled Hosseini, narrates different characters face their punishments for the sins they made. Amir, son of Baba was the main character of the novel. The whole novel is majorly revolve around Amir’s guilt and punishments. There are other characters in the novel acknowledge the sins they have and punishment on themselves for it.

Richard von Weizsaecker once said, “Seeking to forget makes exile all the longer; the secret of redemption lies in remembrance”. Weizsaecker’s statement elucidates that sin is inevitable and the concealment of sin elongates remorse. Redemption lies in how one determines their actions towards their transgression. Literature has made redemption a topic of study. Khaled Hosseini is no exception and deliberates redemption and the hardships and sacrifice that are affiliated with it. This is present throughout Khaled Hosseini’s fictional novel, The Kite Runner, which portrays the constant seeking of salvation, whether salvation of oneself or of broken relationships through the characters Amir and Baba. In Hosseini’s, The Kite Runner, the author

This lack of love drives him to atone for his involuntary mistake. Redemption is not only guided to someone but to your self as a human being. Amir has understood what sins he has committed past but has to accept them for himself to live a happy life. His self redemption is giving Sohrab- Hassans son the childhood he wished and becoming his own man with his own beliefs. Certainty Amir’s path to redemption is rooted from prior sins

In the novel “The Kite Runner”, by Khaled Housseini, the main character faces some tough challenges after a decision made when he was a young boy. As a result, we learn that any mistake can lead to a guilty conscience that can keep a person from doing many different things in life. The best way to alleviate this burden is to try and atone, or even redeem yourself as Amir did. Throughout the story we learn that some things were not what they seemed to be.

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini, has many themes throughout its intricate storyline. One of the most perceptive themes of the novel can be perceived as Amir’s, the main character, journey for redemption after his long ago betrayal of his best friend, Hassan. In the same way an undercurrent of the redemption theme can also be seen in the movie Slumdog Millionaire, as Salim, the main character’s brother, searches to right his wrong doings towards Jamal. Both characters dangerously risk their life and go to extraordinary lengths for the sake of their own personal salvation. However, the true question is this: Does redemptive acts truly rectify a despicable deed, or is there more to the equation? Readers of The Kite Runner might be in dispute

In The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini illustrates a feeling of guilt in a person who betrayed someone else, making him want to redeem himself. It is shown through Amir’s struggle with guilt for what he did to Hassan that Betrayal to someone often results in guilty emotions. However, Redemption helps relieve guilt of past sins, resulting in forgiveness in oneself. Hosseini illustrates these themes by creating a conflict in Amir and Hassan’s relationship.

In his first historical fiction novel, Khaled Hosseini tells the story of a young boy growing up in Afghanistan. The Kite Runner is the story of Amir, the young boy, and the path his life takes because of the decisions he makes when he is a young child. Forgiveness is woven throughout the book as it takes Amir to places he might not have gone if he hadn’t been able to forgive.

“Self redemption is the first step to exoneration from guilt”-Dennis E. Adonis. The Kite Runner written by Khaled Hosseini is about a young boy named Amir who is faced with either choosing to help his “servant” that he grew up with named Hassan or to sacrifice him in order to help himself and how the guilt of his decision to run affects him for the rest of his life, until he chooses to repent for what he did a few decades later when he’s in his late thirties. Not only that but his realization over time of the similarities between his father and himself and how most people have some kind of secret or regret about the decisions they made at one point in their life. The central message that Hosseini was trying to get across while writing The Kite Runner is the choice to pursue redemption is an outcome of guilt. For Assef a character in this novel he’s did appalling deeds at this point in his life and he is not looking for redemption because he feels no guilt for the victims. As for other characters in the book like Baba and Amir they did try to pursue redemption from the sins each one did, for Baba he wasn’t successful to have truly redeem himself, as for Amir his decision to help and adopt Sohrab was the turning point of his path of redemption.

Amir’s betrayal of Hassan is the catalyst that potentially determines the rest of Amir and Hassan’s life. The roots of this betrayal are due to the Pashtun-Hazara conflict in Afghanistan, an ethnic and religious dissension that reached its peak in the nineteenth century. In a book Amir discovers in his late mother’s library, he realizes that the Pashtuns and Sunni Muslims—his own people—systematically oppressed, raped, and murdered the Hazaras and Shi’a Muslims—Hassan’s people. This ideology is carried onto Assef, a

Guilt can sometimes be very difficult to come back from. How long this journey takes, or how much one struggles depends on how much whatever one's guilt stems from effects them. Guilt can even create a long lasting impression on someone, and redemption is sometimes the only way to get rid of the guilt and find peace. In Khaled Hosseini's novel The Kite Runner, Amir goes on a journey in life, from as a child being selfish and betraying his best friend Hassan for his father's affection, to being overcome with guilt due to his betrayal, and then redeeming himself and finding peace. The theme that the path from guilt to redemption is difficult but worth it can be seen through Amir's journey.