Theme Of Mercy In The Kite Runner

His selfish bias making it impossible for Amir to begin earning redemption. This is again proven when he returns to Pakistan to visit Rahim Khan. Rahim Khan pleads with him to try and get Amir to rescue Sohrab, his nephew, from Kabul, but Amir refuses: “‘you know,’ Rahim Khan said, “one time, when you weren’t around, your father and I were talking. And you know how he always worried about you in those days. I remember he said to me, ‘Rahim, a boy who won’t stand up for himself becomes a man you can’t stand up to anything’ I wonder, is that what you’ve become?’ I dropped my eyes. […] Finally, I settled for this: ‘Maybe Baba was right’” (Hosseini, 221). When given the choice to defend his honour and go rescue a young boy, or insult himself and look at the world through a negative lense, Amir chooses to adopt an incredibly negative persona, as per his past. He chooses to refuse the opportunity to experience empathy and relate to Rahim Khan’s desperation and pain, and instead drives a wedge between their relationship. Pushing himself further away from the redemption he craves so desperately. As a fear of empathy inhibits one’s ability to find redemption and uphold healthy relationships.

Amir’s mother, Sofia, dies in childbirth; Amir inherits her love of literature and probably her looks to some extent, but, her being dead, never receives any motherly love or guidance, which could have helped him out of the cowardly hole he later digs himself into. Amir’s father’s best friend and business partner, Rahim Khan, tries to give Amir the motherly love he clearly needs, fostering Amir’s love of writing and steadfastly standing up for him when Amir’s father, Baba, criticizes him, but Rahim Khan does not do enough to instill honesty, courage, and strength of conviction in young Amir. Amir’s best friend, Hassan, a servant a year younger than Amir, is everything Amir is not: athletic, brave, loyal, honest, and kind, inciting jealousy in Amir. Assef, a local bully, poses a real threat to Amir, hating Amir for the crime of befriending a Hazara (oppressed ethnic minority), but Amir is protected by Hassan, allowing young Amir to freeze and not stand up for himself in Assef’s presence. Last, but most importantly, is Amir’s father, Baba, and his views on Amir: he blames Amir for Sofia’s death,

The Kite Runner is a powerful book contrasting selfishness and selflessness. The book follows the life of Amir, a character who experiences guilt and tragedy throughout his life. While growing up in Kabul, Amir witnesses the imperfect and prejudice society in his country. Within an imperfect society, there are many who are self-invested, and among those, there are those who are selfless. Characters Amir and Hassan possess selfish and selfless traits. The traits that these characters possess are influenced by fear, victimization, and loyalty, ultimately leading them to inaction and action.

Justice is what society dreams to accomplish as everybody is filled with evil thoughts, but justice can only be achieved through sacrifice. Martin Luther King, Jr. said it best in his quest for equality, “…Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice.” Khaled Hosseini’s novel The Kite Runner displays glimpses of this very sacrifice in the character of Hassan whom’s name means “to be good”. What he sacrifices is truly breathtaking as he never thinks of himself first.

The well-known rapper, Ice T. once said, “Redemption just means you just make a change in your life and you try to do right, versus what you were doing, which was wrong.” In his book, The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini writes a story about a friendship between two Afghan boys, Amir and Hassan, and how an act of disloyalty affected their lives. Amir struggles with the disappointment of his father, Baba. When the opportunity arrived for him to make Baba proud, it came with a price. When Hassan was being raped, Amir just stood and watched, unable to do something. His lack of bravery cost him their relationship, and he carries the guilt with him to adulthood. Through his book, The Kite Runner, Hosseini shows how remorse can lead redemption.

Humans make mistakes but it is their choice to learn from these mistakes and move on with their lives, knowing they have become a better person. There is no easy way to get through life’s obstacles unless they overcome that little voice in their head;, it is their job to conquer it. Sometimes, they need to take a step outside of their head and look at the world around them because that’s how they will find their answer. In the novel “The Kite Runner”, Khaled Hosseini uses the symbols of the kites, literature, and the scars to show that Amir must overcome his cowardice and selfishness to achieve maturity and redemption.

When Amir is an adult, he gets a call from Rahim Khan, Baba’s best friend, who tells Amir he needs help saving Hassan’s son Sohrab. Amir is hesitant at first until he realizes this is his chance for redemption from

Rahim was quick to point out that Amir’s individuality was something to be grateful for. Reminding Baba that “children aren’t coloring books. You don’t get to fill them with your favorite colors.” Rahim brokers an understanding from Baba that his son is special regardless if he doesn’t mold to the social standards imposed on him by Afghan society. From early on it is made clear that Rahim has taken a special interest to Amir’s well being, protecting him from more than just Baba’s words, but Amir’s own fragile confidence in himself. When Baba ignores Amir, Rahim Khan is right there with words of encouragement. "As always, it was Rahim Khan who rescued me".

Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner is a story about the unlikely friendship between the wealthy boy Amir and the son of his father’s servant Hassan. The book is mainly set in Afghanistan - a country that was once in peace then later became into ruins by the Russian Alliance and the Taliban. It gets into depth about the price of betrayal, and the possibility of redemption; and an exploration of the power of fathers over sons by their love, their sacrifices, and their lies. In the first half of the novel, we witness the main protagonist Amir slowly becomes a man of sin. We watch the regrets and lies him made towards everyone else for his self desires. In the second half of the novel though, we witness Amir redeem for his past sins and regrets. Because of this, effects of guilt gave him the opportunity to become a better person - but the love he had for his friend had to be sacrificed.

The Kite Runner, written by Khaled Hosseini, is a famous novel for its honest portrait of betrayal, and redemption. The novel is narrated by fictional character, Amir, who starts a new life in America with his wife, Soraya, and is a successful author who tries to escape from his haunted childhood in Afghanistan.. Amir is the son of wealthy Afghan businessman, Baba. The opening chapters are told by an older Amir explaining about his childhood. As a reader, one will notice that every joy experienced in his flashback is corrupted by his unatoned sin. Amir and Baba immigrate to America escaping the Russian invasion of Afghanistan in 1978. They leave their closest companion, Ali and his son, Hassan who worked for them as servants. After Amir immigrates, he settles as a husband and a successful author in the Afghan subculture of California. Amir eventually goes back to Afghanistan after Rahim Khan, his father’s friend, makes a phone call tells him “ There is a way to be good again.” Amir has now become a stranger to the war torn country as he does not recognize anything from his childhood. Amir goes on a journey on no man’s land to find redemption for him and his father. Betrayal and redemption come hand in hand in this novel. Khaled Hosseini applies these two themes to explain the events surrounding Amir. Khaled uses betrayal in the beginning of the novel to set the story and drives much of the novel’s action. Later on, Hosseini uses redemption as a quest to make up much

Amir’s character represents a development of the human spirit. He is inherently good in his thoughts and actions early on in the story, but the reader can see him begin to evolve. The actions of others, more specifically his father and Hassan cause him to become plagued with aforementioned themes of evil. He sees himself largely influenced by greed and an ability to abuse his power over Hassan. The evil metamorphoses Amir into a character driven by self interest at the deprivation of others. Amir feels challenged for his father’s love by Hassan and uses his social status and educated ability to impose himself over Hassan when they read together. This abuse of power shows the corruption within Amir that develops into greed as Baba continues to distance himself from Amir. This selfishness climaxes when Hassan is defiled by Assef and Amir says

A complex character from the novel The Kite Runner is the main character of the book named Amir. Amir has conflicting motivations at the beginning of the story. He has the need to be recognized and praised by is father, who throughout the novel has seen him as a disappointment due to him being unlike him in many ways. However, he also has the unexplainable bond with his servant and best friend Hassan, who at times throughout the novel shows great amounts of loyalty and love despite being treated poorly by Amir. The Author develops Amir’s character by his actions or rather his lack of action in situations in which he showed himself to be more concerned with his well being than than the well being of others.

There Amir’s life is nothing but exciting. He got married to a girl named Soraya, Baba died of lung cancer,and him and Soraya found out that they can’t have children. To make matters even worse Amir found out that his father's old friend, Rahim Khan is very ill so he goes to Pakistan to be with him. While he’s there they talk about Hassan and how him and his wife were both killed by the Taliban and they had a son named Sohrab. Rahim Khan wanted Amir to go find him and take him to a family that would care for him. He then also learns that Hassan is his half brother and things from the past were making sense. He now understood why Baba had cared about Hassan so much and why he didn’t treat them like servants or want them to leave. So out of guilt and love Amir agreed to fo find

“Goodness is about character - integrity, honesty, kindness, generosity, moral courage, and the like. More than anything else, it is about how we treat other people.” Khaled Hosseini, the author of the novel “The Kite Runner” created a character that shows great quality and kindness. Throughout the novel, Hassan is a loyal, forgiving and a good-natured person because he is always there for his family and friends and puts everyone else before himself. As a matter of fact, Hassan was always more than a servant to Amir, more like a brother and a true friend. He sacrifices himself in order to make others happy and will never betray Amir no matter what happens.

An irredeemable act about exerting power and privilege on a human while another watches causes a future full of regret, self-doubt, fear, hate, and despair. Not doing anything at the moment to help, not doing anything afterward to get closure of what he had seen and what he had not done. “The Kite Runner”, a novel written by Khaled Hosseini mainly centers around a boy named Amir and his life Afghanistan to living in the U.S. as a writer, also the book centers around his friend Hassan and his father Baba. Amir needs redemption for what he had done it would be the better for him, at this point it is almost impossible for him because he still lives with the guilt of witnessing his close friend Hassan being raped and him not doing anything