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    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. Khaled emphasizes Baba’s sacrifices to show how they lead Baba to his atonement. First, Rahim Khan attests to Baba’s character and actions

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    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

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    “The Kite Runner” above all else a story of redemption of both Amir and Baba , in their own way, have to struggle to shuffle amends for their past misdemeanours. They both believe that when their redemption is reached then they may find happiness which as we know is not the case. For Baba, his crime was having slept with his best friend's wife. His secret is one thing that emerges after his death, when Amir goes to Pakistan and finds the truth of his family relation with Hassan from Rahim Khan.

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    also shown through literature. This is especially true in Khaled Hosseini’s novel The Kite Runner, in which the main protagonist, Amir, is torn between making the morally correct choice and making the selfish choice. After choosing a selfish route in his childhood, Amir is haunted by regret until he receives the chance to repent for his sins. Through Amir’s internal conflicts, Hosseini reveals the theme of redemption throughout the novel, as well as in society. As a young child, Amir blamed himself

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    Redemption can come in many different forms for different people. In The Kite Runner, written by Khaled Hosseini, a story of an Afghani man’s lifetime and all of the troubles that he has experienced is told. Amir’s childhood takes place in Kabul, Afghanistan alongside Hassan, his Hazara servant and half-brother. The two grow up as best friends until one day when Amir does nothing to help Hassan out of a life changing incident with the town bully. Their friendship is severely affected for the rest

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    larger or smaller than others. Though, through the process of redemption people can find a peaceful state of mind helping to make up for that cause of guilt in the first place. In Khaled Hosseini’s novel, The Kite Runner, the quest to seek redemption from major guilt in the past is very evident for one of the books main characters, Amir. Amir has been living in guilt and throughout his whole life has been continually seeking redemption of his childhood when he betrayed his best friend, Hassan. One

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    The struggle of one man can often lead to the road of redemption for another, for he who saves the helpless may ultimately find healing himself. In the novel titled The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini offers an exceptional example of how the struggle and ultimate redemption of one character aids in the rescue of another. Hosseini does this by introducing Amir and Sohrab. Amir, a Pashtun Muslim, is the son of a wealthy Afghan father who often neglects him because of his introverted nature. Amir's

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    while others may bury their burden and secrets. Many people pile up their guilt until they free themselves from this impurity. Redemption is a way of rescuing oneself from sin, evil and impurity. In Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner, Amir’s development through the stages in his life conveys the theme of fulfillment and redemption of his past sins. Amir seeks redemption from his past, Hassan, by rescuing the future, Sohrab, and by fighting the present, Assef. An incident from childhood can scar a

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    The Kite Runner is a novel written by Khaled Hosseini with a theme based on redemption. Redemption is an act of redeeming or atoning for a fault or mistake, or the state of being redeemed. As humans we are all bound to make mistakes at some point in our lives. Throughout The Kite Runner the main character Amir struggles to find forgiveness for his acts of wrongdoings. Growing up Amir always has the weight of feeling guilty to carry on his shoulders. Unfortunately as Amir tries to run away from his

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    Slingshots have not lost their edge since the biblical times and Hosseini must have picked up on this because he brings them back twice in his novel. Parallelism constructs the foundation of the redemption arc Hosseini lays out for the main character, Amir, in The Kite Runner. Most notably, the beatdown Assef deals out to Amir in chapter twenty-two closes a cyclical chain of events Hassan and Amir started years earlier in chapter five. At the tender age of ten, Hassan had bravely defended Amir from

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