In The Kite Runner, redemption is an important factor as sin is present throughout the novel. Amir opens the story by explaining to us not precisely how he sinned, but about sin's endurance throughout: "... It's wrong what they say about the past, I've learned, about how you can bury it. Because the past claws its way out." As Amir recounts the story of his life he measures each event against sin, his betrayal of Hassan. Even before Amir betrays Hassan, he comes to the thought that amongst his family and friends he is the only character who needs redemption, the only sinner. When Rahim Khan reveals Baba's secret, Amir learns that he is not the only one in need of redemption. Throughout Amir's whole life he constantly attempts to match Baba, he does not realize that baba was so hard on him due to the guilt of his own sin, both he and Baba had betrayed. …show more content…
He writes ‘and maybe, just maybe I would finally be pardoned for killing my mother.’ Amir imagines that through the cutting of the string of the final kite, the blue kite, that he cuts loose his painful longing for his father's love and approval. At the end of the kite running tournament, Amir searches the neighborhood until he arrives at an alleyway, Assef and two other boys surrounded Hassan. Amir peers from a corner, Hassan stands strong when Assef refers to him as 'an ugly Hazara pet,' he refuses to hand over the kite. Hassan is not shaken by the words of Assef and the boys charge him. In fear and greed Amir keeps quiet and ultimately watches Hassan get
The only way to have full redemption is to tell the truth. In The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini, Amir is a boy living in Kabul, Afghanistan, as the son of Baba. Who is a wealthy businessman of great success. He is a very generous person, building an orphanage, giving to the poor, and lending money to friends in need. Baba has a very well acquainted business partner and a good friend Rahim Khan, who gives Amir great attention that Baba does not give to him. They have Ali and his son Hassan, who are servants to them. Amir and Baba flea Kabul when the Soviets invade Afghanistan, leaving everything behind. When they emigrated to America, Amir and Baba live in great poverty. Baba is a manager at a gas station, then gets lung cancer and dies. He has a lot of guilt, giving to people and doing good deeds is not a way to redeem one’s self.
The quote,“Guilt is to the spirit, what pain is to the body” said by Elder David A. Bednar, really proves that guilt can be very painful and it is especially painful for Amir because he dealt with the guilt of choosing to not help Hassan his whole life. As soon as Amir decided to run away instead of trying to help Hassan and stop him from being sexually assaulted by Assef, he immediately felt guilty and that stuck with him for the rest of his life. The author really shows Amir’s guilt throughout the novel through different negative events that always seem to happen to Amir, he uses the idea of “full circle” throughout the novel to express Amir’s guilt. In The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini shows the motif guilt by adding important details throughout the novel: these include how Amir continues to feel guilty for the way that he treated Hassan throughout their childhood, he never stood up for Hassan when he needed him the most, and even when Amir tried to get rid of his guilt by bringing Sohrab back to America, he still felt guilt for everything he had done to Hassan.
“True redemption is when guilt leads to good,” Rahim Khan asserts. Khaled Hosseini compels the readers to think in the novel, The Kite Runner, by analyzing Amir’s quests. Additionally, readers must understand Amir’s journey to maturity throughout The Kite Runner, as a Bildungsroman novel. Amir’s journey to redemption ultimately accentuates his quest for adulthood.
“I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded; not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathering its things, packing up, and slipping away unannounced in the middle of the night.” That quote from the book The Kite Runner was something that to me represented forgiveness. The quote was said by Amir after he had brought Sohrab to his home in America and he was closing his bedroom door. Amir thought to himself that maybe that was how the forgiveness started because he had basically hurt Hassan and thought maybe this was a way for Hassan to forgive him for the things that happened in the past. One of the major things that happened in the book and the movie was that Amir was called to go back to Afghanistan and rescue Sohrab. One of the major differences between the movie and the book was that in the book Hassan’s mom comes back but in the movie that is not shown. During all of this Amir was able to figure out how to redeem himself by going back to Afghanistan to rescue sohrab and Hassan was able to show forgiveness by letting his mom Sanaubar come into his house and treated her as family instead of just leaving her outside even though she wasn’t a very good person in the past.
Throughout The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini, the author shows us a major theme pertaining to forgiveness and how we feel guilt when we have not been forgiven. When developing this theme, the writer makes a strong link to the theme of immigration, and the feelings that immigrants feel when they leave behind their past to start a new future. Hosseini emphasizes throughout the book that the relationship between Amir and Hassan is stressed mainly by the feeling of lost forgiveness Amir feels, added to the fact that he left Hassan in Afghanistan while he and Baba left to America. These themes of immigration and forgiveness are placed in the forefront by Hosseini through the deepening of Amir’s internal feelings, beliefs, and conflicts, added to how Amir copes with the feeling of leaving Hassan.
In the Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini wrote that “true redemption is […] when guilt leads to good” (Hosseini 302). this connection between suffering and redemption develops throughout the whole story. Hosseini hints that sacrifice leads to redemption in the book the Kite Runner through the actions of Baba, Sanaubar’s return, and Amir’s journey to atone for his sins.
Forgiveness and redemption make up considerable parts of our lives, as we all make mistakes. For some of these mistakes, we need to atone ourselves, and gain forgiveness of either ourselves or another individual. Many times, we make big decisions based receiving forgiveness on the past mistakes we have made. This theme of forgiveness and atonement is also conveyed in the Kite Runner written by Khaled Hosseini. Forgiveness and atonement is a significant theme throughout the Kite Runner because it causes many of the major events in the story, which is illustrated when characters do certain actions or make decisions driven by the possibility of atonement or forgiveness.
The kite flying competition symbolizes guilt, as Amir sacrifices Hassan, to receive his kite, and to have praise from
In Khaled Hosseini’s novel, The Kite Runner, two reoccurring themes are forgiveness and redemption. The main character Amir, has wrong many people and spends his adult life trying to find forgiveness and redemption from not only those he hurt but also from himself. In December of 1975, Amir watched his friend get rapped. This is one of the incidents that shape the rest of Amir’s life. Once Amir and his father, Baba, move to America, Amir does whatever he can to redeem himself in the eyes of his father. It is not until his graduation and the day he gets married, where he finally feels redeemed by Baba. Even though he is redeemed by Baba, he still feels the guilt of what happened in 1975. He never gets the chance to ask Hassan for forgiveness and to redeem himself, so he tries to find it through Hassan’s son, Sohrab. In Khaled Hosseini’s novel, The Kite Runner, the main character Amir desires forgiveness and redemption from his actions, ultimately he succeeds this as an adult.
Amir goes through a beating to make sure Sohrab, Hassan’s son, is safe and he finds his redemption. Gaining Sohrab’s trust is a hard process but when Amir runs the kite, just like Hassan did for him many times,all is good
Khaled Hosseini's, The Kite Runner, is a flashback narrated by a 40 year old Afghan-American man named Amir, who is plagued by his childhood sins until he seeks redemption for his wrongdoing and figures out that redemption requires painful sacrifice. Amir is a kid who experinced someone so loyal to him be raped and Amir did nothing to stop the rapist. One sin led to another and before Amir knew it, he was destroying his life. After his father died, who was someone who he looked up to most, Amir started to go on the path to redeem himself and his guilt where is when he learns the true meaning of sacrifice. Hosseini uses Amir’s misguided notion of sacrifice and his long journey toward redemption in order to ultimately convey that true
Betrayal, which can be considered a form of sin, is enduring and ends up being cyclical in The Kite Runner. For most of the novel, Amir attempts to deal with his guilt by avoiding it. But doing this clearly does nothing toward redeeming himself, and thus his guilt endures. That is why he still cringes every time Hassan's name is mentioned. When Amir finds out about Baba's betrayal of Ali (and subsequent betrayal of Hassan), he realizes that everything he thought he knew and understood about his father was false. And Amir himself feels betrayed. But Baba has been dead for fifteen years, and there is nothing he can do about the situation. Neither feelings of betrayal nor punishment are enough to redeem Amir. Rescuing Sohrab from Assef is not
Conflict between guilt and redemption has been one of the big themes of mankind, as it is described in many notable literary pieces and scriptures including the Bible. Similarly, The Kite Runner by Khalid Hosseini vividly depicts a young Afghan man, Amir, suffering between sin and guilt, realizing how he could’ve changed one’s destiny. This story is not merely about repentance, but also about the whole process of realization. Although Amir remains guilty by avoiding Hassan consistently after the betrayal, he seeks true repentance after realizing that apologies towards Hassan are too late.
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini tells the coming of age story of the main character Amir. Throughout the novel, many themes are apparent as Amir gets older and deals with the events of his past. One of the main themes is regardless of any action there is always a way to redeem yourself. There are many examples of this theme in The Kite Runner, like when Rahim Khan tells Amir that he can redeem himself, another would be when Assef beats up/hurts Amir but he feels healed, finally were Amir is flying a kite with Sohrab and he smiles. The theme of redemption is present throughout the events of the novel.
As a foreword, the story of The Kite Runner focuses on a man named Amir. In his childhood, he enjoyed a high-class life in Kabul, Afghanistan, living with his father Baba. They have two servants, Ali and his son Hassan. They are Hazaras, a lower class ethnic minority in Afghanistan. In one Winter of their childhood, Amir and Hassan participate in a kite-fighting tournament; the goal is to be the last kite flying. When a kite is cut, boys chase after it as a