The Kite Runner Persuasive Essay

The expression "riddled with guilt" is a good way to describe the main character's life, Amir, in the book The Kite Runner, written by Khaled Hosseini. The Kite Runner is a story about an Afghan boy, Amir, who has many hardships throughout his life as he grows from a boy living in war-torn Afghanistan, to a successful writer living in America. Amir experiences many events that caused him to carry a great amount of guilt throughout his life. So much guilt that it even turned him into an insomniac. He needed to find a way to make amends which would allow him to forgive himself and hopefully, one day, be able to sleep soundly again.

Khaled Hosseini’s novels, The Kite Runner (year), and A Thousand Splendid Suns (2007) both explore the idea that a significant individual can inspire a course of action, which may result in a change of self.

“There is a way to be good again” (2). This is the line that rolls through Amir's mind over and over throughout Khaled Hosseini's novel, The Kite Runner. This is the story of a mans struggle to find redemption. The author illustrates with the story of Amir that it is not possible to make wrongs completely right again because its too late to change past. In this novel Hosseini is telling us that redemption is obtainable, and by allowing us to see Amirs thought process throughout the novel, Hosseini shows us that it guilt is the primary motivation for someone who seeks redemption. Hosseini also uses not only the main character, but other secondary characters to show how big of a part that guilt plays in the desire for redemption. In this

Young boys Amir and Hassan have grown up in the same household and are the best of friends. The only difference between the two is that Hassan is Amir’s servant. Growing up in Kabul, Afghanistan the boys face obstacles day to day, however, no obstacle can compare to the coming one. Separated by war, Amir and Hassan grow up in two different worlds, the prior leaving Afghanistan for America. One day Amir receives a call from an old friend from Afghanistan telling him he must come at once. Amir soon learns the horrible truth and must come to terms with himself to make up for his previous wrongdoings.

The final third of the novel contains a multitude of significant quotes pertaining to the action, characters and theme of the novel. The first quote, spoken by Raami’s mother, speaks volumes of the character of Raami. Raami’s mother states, “Turn your tongue seven times before speaking. This way you’ll have time to think if you ought to say things you want to say.” (212). This line is a direct stab at Raami’s character as she had previously told the soldiers of her father’s status in Cambodia. Raami’s mother expresses her desire to change Raami’s impulsive speaking behaviour as it obviously lead to the death of her husband. This is significant to Raami as it acts as the turning point in her character. Raami now understands how dangerous words can be and takes her mother’s comment to heart as she finishes the novel without talking to any strangers. Raami develops more maturity after she now realizes the situation she is in and the way she needs

Lonely, desperate, and distraught. I felt these emotions everyday as a child, because I was the weird kid, the odd one out. I let people walk all over me just so they would accept me into their clique. I abided to all of my peers demands, even if I did not want to, just so that I could have someone to invite to my birthday party. In the novel, The Kite Runner, written by Khaled Hosseini, there is a similar situation between two of the main characters: Amir and Hassan.

Yesterday I experienced a rather unpleasant night, I was awoken by gun rattling and bombs. Things I had not experienced before. I was told by Ali that they are just “hunting ducks, I was scared and Hassan too until Baba embraced me in his arms, had I felt safe. Today, I overheard on Baba’s radio, Kabul was rid of our monarchy and in the king’s absence stepped in his cousin, Daoud Khan.

A story of friendship, rape, betrayal and redemption, but there is one question that persists… is it true? The book, The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini, is about an Afghan boy named Amir and his servant Hassan. Hassan comes from an ethnic group known as the Hazara that is, according to the book, generally mistreated and at a disadvantage from birth. Hassan is always a loyal friend to Amir, while Amir only hangs out with Hassan when nobody else is around. Amir realizes this when Assef, a bully that hates the Hazara, threatens to beat Amir up for being friends with a Hazara and Amir’s response is almost to reject him to save himself. Amir later allows Assef to rape Hassan so he could impress his father with a prize kite that Hassan had caught

“Love is much like a wild rose: beautiful and calm, but willing to draw blood in its defense”. Love and friendship can both make and break us. While their purity and wholesome memories epitomize the human condition of intimacy, this weight of responsibility can crush us when faced with crisis and hinder us when we need to succeed most. This question of risk and reward is raised in various works as characters struggle to balance loyalty with logic. Authors and filmmakers demonstrate that amity can be the key to compassion but also cripples us from acting with reason.

Amir, the protagonist of Khaled Hosseini’s novel, The Kite Runner began the novel as the stereotypical anti-hero, but as Sohrab, Amir’s half nephew said in the book, “... bad people sometimes become good” (Hosseini 318). Amir clearly proves this quotation to be factual over the span of the novel. At the beginning of The Kite Runner, he was a selfish character that only thought about himself, he was insecure and guilt-ridden about his betrayal of Hassan, and finally was a coward who ran away from conflict. Throughout the novel Amir developed immensely. He became more selfless, sticks up for himself in conflicts, and becomes mentally strong enough to open up about his greatest mistakes. Overall, Amir is a dynamic character because of his

There is a quote that Plato once said to his students; “Only the dead have seen the end of war.” (Plato, goodreads.com). This quote tells us that there are always sacrifices to be made in war. People suffer and die, and that is a shameless fact. It is, however, unbefitting of someone to die or suffer because of someone else’s actions. In fact, the story “The Golden Kite, the Silver Wind” just so happens to be a metaphor for the Cold War, which took place between 1947 and 1991 when America and Russia collided. This caused their people to endure a massive amount of stress and tension, which lasted approximately 50 years. In this

Based on what I have read so far the title “The Kite Runner” is based on the idea when in the novel Amir talks about the kite-fighting tournament an old winter tradition in Afghanistan in which when a kite is cut, the kite runners come in. The kids run through neighborhoods until it came spiraling down in a field as Amir explains. Amir also explains how Hassan his friend was by far the greatest kite runner he has ever seen, “Over the years, I had seen a lot of guys run kites. But Hassan was by far the greatest kite runner I'd ever seen. It was downright eerie the way he always got to the spot the kite would land before the kite did, as if he had some sort of inner compass.”(p 42) So right now the title “The Kite Runner” might resemble Hassan,

The story begins with a friendship of two boys, their names are Amir and Hassan. Amir is a child of Baba, and Hassan is a child of Ali, which is Baba’s longtime servant. The first part of the movie shows a grown-up Amir watching scenery in the park, alongside with his wife and then they came back to their apartment and received a box full of Amir’s books that just published. Not long after that, Amir received a phone call from Rahim Khan, which is Baba’s close friend. He told Amir to come back to his home in Afghanistan.

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Khaled Hosseini’s 2003 novel, The Kite Runner, is a contemporary study of the differing social classes of Afghanistan, the Pashtun and the Hazara. Hosseini’s characters reveal the psychological complexities of the hierarchies associated with each class. Unlike a history book, that might define the cultural differences between the two classes, this type of story-telling highlights the subtleties of the conflict and allows the reader to put herself inside an individual’s perspective. Hosseini’s decision to have Amir as both the protagonist and narrator, brings the reader along his journey of redemption. Amir feels guilt from a childhood memory that follows him through his adulthood, consuming his life. This journey is driven by the guilt Amir