The Extent Of Personal Responsibility

In the novel The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini tells a notable coming-of-age story portraying the actions and thoughts of Amir, a penitent adult living in the United States and his reminiscence of his affluent childhood in the unstable political environment of Afghanistan. Throughout the novel Khaled Hosseini uses character description to display his thoughts on sin and redemption.

Personal responsibility is greatly affected by social influence in today’s society. A&P by John Updike is a short story which exemplifies this belief. Social influence occurs when one 's emotions, opinions, or behaviors are affected by others. In this story, Sammy is a store clerk, tending to his personal responsibility of working and making money to support his household. This is later tarnished as a result of Sammy’s attempt to maintain an image, he has been socially influenced to quit his job. Three girls come into the store and interfere with Sammy’s work by their distracting bathing suit attire. Sammy’s attention is preoccupied by the sexual display the girls are making, their casual defiance of the stores standards ultimately affects Sammy more strongly. The store has a clothing policy that the girls are blind of. When the owner of the store asks them to leave, they look to Sammy in hopes that he will bend the rules of his job, to stand up for them. The perception of a man, who will do anything for a woman, is ultimately what Sammy desires. However, Sammy is actually presented as “Naïve, yet morally ambitious teen-age hero.”(Dessner, 1). He is placed in a position of choosing between keeping his job while ignoring social influence, and conquering his desired social standing while losing his job. Even though personal responsibility is far more important, social influences can often be too strong for a person to ignore

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.

In the novel The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini, Amir craves his father's approval. Amir becomes jealous of Hassan and turns to cowardliness to hide his guilt for what he saw in the winter of 1975. The author develops the theme of betrayal and redemption throughout the novel by Amir’s experiences of betrayal from his father and by betraying others in return. Amir goes through his life wanting redemption for the sins he has committed.

Through the character of Amir, The Kite Runner’s protagonist written by Khaled Hosseini, the author brings to life a character flawed by indecisiveness. This character battle against opposing forces but perhaps the greatest one of them is his own consciousness. Amir’s actions, cause one to question his honor, his morals, and whether or not he is able to live up to them. As a child, Amir grew up with privileges, with servants and perhaps the world at his feet, the one ting he most longed for however was his father’s love and affection.

The life of Amir in the novel Kite Runner can be categorized as Amir attempting to redeem himself for what he allowed to happen to Hassan in that dark and cold alleyway when they were in their adolescents in Kabul. Even though it was not Amir who had gotten raped, in the long run it seemed to impact him more than it did to Hassan. This was because he basically blamed himself for what had happened and hated himself because at that crucial moment he did not possess the same courage that his father Baba and Hassan seemed to have whenever something seems to go wrong. But even worse, he could not protect Hassan the same way that Hassan had protected him throughout their entire childhood.

The Kite Runner is a film based on the first novel of Khaled Hosseini, which was published in 2003 and became a bestseller, thus was translated to many different languages and spread around the world, becoming a discussion topic for quite a while. One of the reasons why this book is so rich and attractive is the variety of characters, which are all born in Afghanistan and spent at least most of their childhood there, but at the same time have different views, virtues and experience. And those characters, depending on the generation they belong to, are shaped by particular circumstances, political and historical events.

Amir’s selfishness is often channeled through his guilt and sense of fear. Although Amir witnesses the tragic event that unfolds in front of his eyes, he immediately realizes that he fails to prove his loyalty to Hassan. While staring down the alley, Amir realized that he “had one last chance to make a decision. One final opportunity to decide who I was going to be. I could step into that alley, stand up for Hassan-the way he’d stood up for me all those times in the past-and accept whatever would happen to me. Or I could run. In the end…I ran because I was a coward” (77). By witnessing what was happening in the alley, a sense of fear rushed over Amir, ultimately leading to his decision of running away like a coward. By running away, Amir shows that he cares more about himself in this situation than he does about Hassan. He has a fear of what will happen to him if he intervenes, when

Throughout the story The Kite Runner an important central theme displayed by the other is the idea that it is important to be able to confront your past mistakes or else those mistakes will torture you for the rest of your life. Many of the main characters came face to face with this idea and each of them dealt with their mistakes in different ways. Despite this, it was made clear that the characters that were able to deal with their problems ended up much better off mentally than those of them that were unable to. Khaled Hosseini’s novel, The Kite Runner, teachers the reader that confronting past mistakes is better than running from them through Amir’s feelings following his betrayal of Hassan, how Soraya felt after telling Amir about her past, and Amir’s reaction to finding out Baba was Hassan’s father.

As a character, Amir experiences more change from start to finish than anyone. He is weak and selfish as a child. This leads to him making the worst decision of his life. As Assef approaches Hassan, Amir sat there, as Hosseini writes “I opened my mouth, almost said something. Almost. The rest of my life might have turned out differently if I had” (Hosseini 73). This moment changes the trajectory of his entire life. Hassan seems to move on from it quickly, trying to be Amir’s friend again a few weeks later, but Amir would be haunted by it for the rest of the novel. Into his thirties, he struggled to sleep and what he had witnessed was always in his head. It isn’t until he meets Sohrab that he starts to truly change as a character. He begins to make choices with other people in mind, despite how he might affect himself. This is the biggest lesson he could take away from Hassan.

In the Kite Runner when Amir finds Hassan in the alley and he sees that he is being bullied and violated he does nothing to help hassan he can't work up. The courage to try to help him save him But it is like he is frozen. He can't move he wants to help but he can't what he does is he runs away from what he saw. Amir can't face the fact that what happened to Hassan was his fault that he would not. Have crossed paths with assef if he was not so devoted to Amir he wanted to find that kite for him his beloved friend . I believe that Amir feels guilty because his want to prove to his father that he was worth something . Costed him a friend but he doesn't see that

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini is a heart racing, an emotional, and a painfully beautiful book. Everything seems as perfect as can be like a kite floating in the steady air. Two boys, Amir and Hassan, different in social classes, but the same in heart and ethnicity live their lives as young boys do. As young boys, they are oblivious to the traumatic events that occur, and are afraid of the consequences that would follow. People say time heals, but for this two, time had strapped them on a kite for a flight of a life time with many ups and downs. The Kite Runner is filled with many themes that reoccur throughout the book, such as: betray a friend and you betray yourself, no matter what happens love will prevail all, and ethnic tension does not affect one minority, but everyone as a whole. These powerful themes make the book a never ending emotional roller coaster.

The Kite Runner, written by Khaled Hosseini, is a novel telling the life story of a man named Amir. The novel begins in the year of 2001 when Amir, a grown man at that time, receives a phone call from a dear friend from his childhood. This call was not an ordinary one, nor a simple one to forget about. On the line was something much more powerful, much more deeper; “a past of unatoned sins and a promise that there is a way to be good again.” (P. 1, para. 2) This moment sparks the need to travel way back to the mid 1970s, the childhood years of the ‘inseparable friends’, Amir and Hassan, that brought the horrific moments.

Guilt has the incredible power to change an individual’s perspective and affect them for the rest of their life. The Kite Runner, written by Khaled Hosseini, is a world-renowned novel published in 2003 that tells the story of a young boy named Amir who grows up with the guilt of having failed to fight the group of boys who raped his closest friend. One of the main themes Hosseini emphasizes in the novel, is the powerful affect of guilt on one’s self. Different characters such as Amir, Sanubar and Baba use the guilt that exists in every one of them as a motive to their actions to further develop the plot. Amir, the narrator of the novel, witnesses his closest friend, Hassan, get bullied by an older boy named Aseef and decides not to

When looking at taking personal responsibility for my actions and events that take place in my life, I think that I have a different viewpoint that most people in our society do. With me being of mixed races, white and black, and growing up in Mid-Tennessee as a child in the 80's and 90's I faced ridicule and discrimination for most of those years. A significant amount of the bias came from my mother's side of the family more than it did anywhere else. I was told that because of me being half black that I would never amount to anything. When growing up I learned to fight for myself, and that no matter what anyone else done I was in charge of my life.