Many people have done things that they can’t seek redemption for or can’t forgive themselves for, such as not being there for a friend when they need you most. Including Amir, from The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini. Amir is best friends with Hassan, a Hazara boy. They grow up together, and Amir later finds out that they are half brothers. Hassan helps Amir, but he allows a boy, Assef, and his group of friends to rape Hassan, which he doesn’t think he’ll ever be able to forgive himself for. Amir is redeemed because he receives letters from Hassan, he adopts Sohrab, and fights Assef. Amir begins to feel redemption when he goes to Pakistan and Rahim Khan has letters from Hassan to Amir. In the letters, Hassan begins talking about his wife and …show more content…
Assef is the same guy that rapes Hassan. Amir runs into Assef, who is now apart of the Taliban, while trying to get Sohrab. Amir says, “I’ll pay you for him, … I can have money wired” (282). Amir is trying to buy Sohrab from Assef, but Assef doesn’t need the money. His parents are rich and live in this gorgeous place called Rockingham. He says, “Have you ever heard of Rockingham? Western Australia, a slice of heaven… So if I need money, I’ll have them wire it to me” (282). If Assef needed money, he would just have his parents send it to him. Assef wants something else from Amir. Assef wants to settle some ‘unfinished’ business with Amir. Assef fights Amir, but really he ends up just beating him with brass knuckles. In the end, Amir feels better. He says, “My body was broken-but I felt healed. Healed at last. I laughed” (289). Amir feels the pain of Assef continuously beating him, but he also feels like he is at peace, because when he wanted Hassan to hurt him back, he wouldn’t. He laughs because he is feeling at peace. Now that he has finally gotten what he has been waiting for and what he thinks he deserves. By Amir getting beaten feeling peace, he is finally fulling
His mistakes disgust us, especially after Hassan has been by his side the entire book. As the reader gets deeper into the book, they start to develop feelings of anger but sometimes sympathy, towards Amir. By the end, we are not as angry as Amir, the reader to begin with. Amir has grown into a better person and has tried to fix his past mistakes.
Amir makes mistakes and hurts his friend Hassan, and immediately afterwards he felt guilt, and wanted forgiveness, but Hassan acted like Amir did nothing, which bothered Amir even worse. And that lasted on, throughout his childhood he’s constantly upset about what he has done to Hassan, he doesn’t feel like it can be fixed. And he strives to do things throughout the novel to achieve that. One good deed he does trying to be good again, was when he goes back home, he is at a house with Farid and
“Hassan never denied [Amir] anything.” After the life changing moment when Hassan got raped by Assef, Hassan became withdrawn. Amir was riddled with guilt because he saw the rape and did not stop it even though he had the ability. Amir was aware that Hassan knew that he saw it and did nothing, making him even feel more like coward. This led to Amir trying to make Hassan have some sort of emotion, to hit him and to be angry with him. Hassan was just not capable of those sort of ugly emotions. Although Amir did nothing to stop the rape, Hassan still was faithful to him. Amir couldn’t live with the guilt so he concocted a plan where it looked like Hassan stole a watch and birthday money from Amir. When Amir’s Baba asks “Did you steal Amir’s watch, Hasan?”” Hassan’s reply was a single word, delivered in a thin raspy voice: Yes.” This proves that Hassan is selfless; even though there would be harsh consequences he was willing to lie in order to protect Amir. Hassan knew that if Baba found out that Amir lied, Amir would be in a great deal of trouble and Hassan would do anything, at any cost to protect
Amir’s way of coping with the guilt was to push Hassan out of his life which eventually breaks the strong bond between him and Hassan. He took advantage of his new life in America by trying to forget...
To atone for his past sins, he embarks on a journey back to Afghanistan to redeem himself to Hassan for not treating him the way he was treated. He redeems himself by saving Sohrab and giving him a safer and enjoyable life in the Untied States. Amir tyres to attain redemption to baba for being the cause of his mother’s death as he believes. Gaining his fathers love and care will make him feel redeemed from all of the resentment and lack of care that his father shows to him. He must prove to Baba that he is worthy of spending time with everyday because he feels the hatred that his father shows to him. One way how he gets redemption from his father is by winning the kite running tournament to prove to him that he is worthy of being his son. Amir’s path of redemption is not only directed to other people but personal redemption for himself. He attempts to redeem himself by building an orphanage with his wife Soraya and giving Sohrab the childhood that is safer and more suitable for a young boy to grow up in. Amir has to realize that the past doesn’t define who someone is although you can’t forget the past, the actions that they decide to do to redeem themselves from the past mistakes defines who someone is. If Amir’s mother did not die at birth would he be resented from his father greatly and have to make great
In Khaled Hosseini’s “The Kite Runner,” redemption develops the story plot surrounding Amir, who had lived with regret and guilt for 26 years before he finds a way to redeem himself. Watching his own friend getting rape had became the deeping secret in his heart. A childhood fault had followed him for the rest of his life. Hosseini’s development of such theme controls the plot, the characters, and the structures of the novel. The characters grow through the mistakes they made and learn from their introspections. Hosseini stretches the plot accordingly to make the impact of redemption influential. Although redemption and forgiveness come in side by side, they are not meant to be a true erase for the mistake.
Amir is, to be put bluntly, a coward. He is led by his unstable emotions towards what he thinks will plug his emotional holes and steps over his friends and family in the process. When he sought after Baba’s invisible love, Amir allowed Hassan to be raped in an alleyway just so that the blue kite, his trophy that would win his father’s heart, could be left untouched. In the end, he felt empty and unfulfilled with the weight of his conscience on his shoulders comparable to Atlas’ burden. Unable to get over his fruitless betrayal, he lashes out and throws pomegranates at Hassan before stuffing money and a watch under his loyal friend’s pathetic excuse for a bed, framing Hassan for theft and directly causing the departure of both servants from his household. Even after moving to America, finding a loving wife, and creating a career for himself in writing, he still feels hollow when thinking of his childhood in Afghanistan. Many years later, he is alerted of Hassan’s death and sets out on a frenzied chase to find his friend’s orphaned son. He feels that he can somehow ease his regrets from all of those years ago if he takes in Hassan’s son, Sohrab. He finds Sohrab as a child sex slave for Assef, who coincidentally was the one to rape Hassan all of those years ago. After nearly dying in his attempt to take back Sohrab, he learns that he can take the damaged child back to the states with him. Sadly, Hassan’s son is so
“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” (Hosseini). In The Kite Runner, Hosseini shares Amir’s journey to atonement. As Amir states, he was unable to bury his past, similar to his father, Baba, who spent the majority of his life haunted by his sins. While both father and son are consumed by guilt, the way in which they atone for their iniquities is dissimilar. While Baba attempts to live his life according to the Afghan saying, “ Life goes on, unmindful of beginning, end...crisis or catharsis, moving forward like a slow, dusty caravan of kochis [nomads]” (Hosseini 356), Amir strays from this traditional perspective. Baba chose to continue his life unmindful of his past, while Amir, eventually decides to confront his. Although both Baba and Amir have acted immorally, the choices they make find redemption affect the success of their individual attempts. In the novel, Amir’s quest for atonement is more effective than Baba’s because he acts virtuously, while his father, acts selfishly. Ultimately, Amir is the more successful of the two because, in opposition to Baba, he seeks holistic atonement and is willing to make sacrifices to achieve redemption.
Early in the novel, Amir sees Hassan cornered by Assef and his gang while trying to defend Amir’s kite he won with during the kite running tournament. He tries to decide whether he should save Hassan like he has done for him on multiple occasions or turn his back on his only friend. “I could step into that alley, stand up for Hassan-the way he stood up for me all those times in the past
Assef responded saying, “You’re bothering me very much. In fact, you bother me more than the Hazara here” (Khaled 41). A few moments later Assef was putting on his brass knuckles. As a result, Amir was standing there, scared for what might happened next. On the contrary, Hassan picked up his slingshot and was ready to protect both himself and Amir. “Someone had challenged their god. Humiliated him. And, worst of all, that someone was a skinny Hazara” (42). Although Hassan was not as fortunate as Amir in regards to the living situation, he undoubtedly had more courage than any character in the novel. There were various occasions in the book where Hassan is taking Amir’s consequences. For instance, hours after the kite tournament Amir was out searching for Hassan in order to retrieve the kite for his father’s blessing. After hours of searching he finally found him in an alley with Assef and his followers. Once he arrived to the scene Hassan was cornered by the group of boys, they wanted the kite. Hassan was extremely loyal to Amir, in result he said no to giving them the kite. At this point Assef decided to punish Hassan in a
“For you, a thousand times over.” In The Kite Runner by Kahled Hosseini, there is a recurring theme of redemption that is portrayed by various literary devices. Kahled excellently juxtaposes devices such as irony, symbolism, and foreshadowing to show redemption within his first novel.
Even after doing something bad, a good person will always try to make it good again. There are many themes in the novel, The Kite Runner. Amir winning the kite tournament, Sohrab confessing to what happened to him, and Amir going to get Sohrab are all courageous acts that support a theme in this novel. The desire for redemption gives people courage is a major theme shown in The Kite Runner.
Novel The Kite Runner Essay In the novel The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini, there are several major themes. One of the themes that stands out the most is redemption. This theme is shown through the thoughts and actions of the protagonist of the novel, Amir. He is seeking redemption for betraying his childhood best friend and half-brother Hassan.
“Forgive and forget” is a common phrase in our society. However, one may argue that mistakes are never truly forgotten. The Kite Runner suggests that the best way to resolve your past and make up for your mistakes is through doing good. Through Rahim Khan’s wisdom, the actions of Baba, and the journey of Amir, Khaled Hosseini illustrates that the need for redemption, due to unresolved guilt, can haunt someone throughout their life.
In a lifetime, one will face an abundance of personal battles in their decision making. When bad decisions result negatively, people find peace mentally in redeeming themselves of their sin through redemption. In Khaled Hosseini’s “The Kite Runner”, the main character, Amir, commits a sin and goes through great lengths to find redemption. Using metaphors, personification, and irony Hosseini expresses the theme of sin, suffering and redemption. Achieving redemption is a long journey people seek after suffering the consequences of sin.