Will The Kite Runner Be Forgiven Analysis

Sometimes no matter how big a mistake you make is you can try to be forgiven, and make up for your mistakes by seeking redemption. No matter what someone does, if they truly want to be forgiven they can, and will, seek redemption. And more often than not they will succeed and they will be forgiven. The book The Kite Runner, is about a kid named Amir, from Afghanistan, who was rich and privileged until having to move to America. And Amir stands by as Hassan is raped, which causes the guilt he has, and this is why he’s trying to strive for redemption. 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

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 three scraggly boys were looking at Amir. Amir thought they were looking at his watch, but when he gave it to them they ignored it. He later realizes they are looking at his food, not his watch. That they are just hungry. So the next morning he puts money under a mattress. “Earlier that morning, when I was certain no one was looking I did something I had done twenty-six years earlier: I planted a fistful of crumpled money under a mattress.” (Hosseini 242) He also tries to find Hassan himself. But upon arriving Rahim Khan tells him that Hassan and his wife have been murdered by the Taliban. “Hassan protested. So they took him out to the street.” “No,” I breathed. “And order him to kneel” “No. God, no.” “And shot him in the back of the head.” “No.” “Farzana came screaming and attacked them” “No.” “Shot her too. Self-defense, they claimed later” “But all I could manage was to whimper “No. “ (Hosseini 219) Amir gets more upset after this, thinking he can’t possibly fix this anymore. But he realizes he has one final chance at redemption, saving Hassan’s son,

He needs to save Sohrab. Once he gets to where he is being held, he realizes Sohrab has been made into a sex slave for the Taliban. And, as if that wasn’t shocking enough, he realizes the leader of it all, the same man who executed the people at the soccer game earlier that day, is Assef. The same man who started this all in the first place. “His name rose from the deep and I didn’t want to say it, as if uttering it might conjure him. But he was already here, in the flesh, sitting less than ten feet from me, after all these years. His name escaped my lips.” “Assef.” (Hosseini 281) Amir is shocked, and angered about what he has just realized. Him and Assef have a conversation which eventually leads into Assef challenging Amir to a fight, over Sohrab. Assef beat up Amir very bad, and once the fight was over Sohrab confronts Assef, and tells him to stop. And Assef doesn’t listen, and yells at Sohrab to put it down. Sohrab then lets the slingshot shoot, aimed at Assef’s face, and it takes out his eye. While he’s hurt they all escape, this doesn’t prove to be the last trial though, as they are told by a man named Raymond Andrews that they can’t take him to America. But after awhile Soraya calls from California and says that they can take Sohrab back to America. But, once again, a problem gets in the way of Amir’s redemption. This time a rather serious one, when Amir goes to