The Kite Runner Sacrifice

How much are you willing to sacrifice for another? Whether they are a family member or a complete stranger. In the novel The Kite Runner Baba was was willing to risk his life when he had stood up and was trying to stop the Russian soldier from rape the young woman as payment for letting them pass through one of the checkpoints. Then there had been Amir it was when he had suffered extreme injuries, nearly losing his life when he had fought Assef, so that he could save Sohrab for the abuse he was suffering from the Taliban. Both Character Baba and Amir were willing to sacrifice themselves for another person, regardless of who they were. Khaled Hosseini’s novel, The Kite Runner, teaches the reader sacrificing your life can lead to another person’s happiness through Baba saving the woman from the Russian soldier and Amir fighting Assef.

When Baba, Amir, the young woman, her husband and their child were on a truck taking them to Jalalabad they had been stopped at a checkpoint. There had been a Russian Soldier who had opened the back of the truck and told the driver that he wanted the woman as payment for letting them through. Baba had began to protest telling the driver that he was not going to let the Russian Soldier harm the young woman. Hosseini himself writes“‘Tell him I’ll take a thousand bullets before I let this indecency take place’” (Hosseini 116). Baba had been willing to die and abandon Amir in order to save the young woman. Based off Baba’s risk along with the reaction from the young woman and her husband because Russian soldier had not harmed the young woman. Basically Hosseini is saying that risking your life for another can lead to that person’s happiness. Considering that Hosseini states that both the man and woman were thankful for Baba standing up to the