Amir's Mistake In The Kite Runner

Mistakes can be extremely influential to the person who made the mistake’s life. Khaled Hosseini uses multiple forms of conflict involving Amir, a character from his book The Kite Runner to show that mistakes can haunt a person’s life and have monumental effects on them in the future. Amir’s mistake was fatal and continued to affect him many years later, even into his adulthood. The internal and social conflicts occurring when Amir made his mistake clarify the gravity of his mistake as well as show why his mistake haunts him even as an adult. Hosseini uses internal and social conflict to show the fatality of Amir’s mistake which shows why this mistake haunts him and affects his choices years later.

The use of the forms of conflict in The Kite Runner showed how Amir’s mistake would be life changing. Amir’s mistake was not helping his friend and half brother while he was being raped when they were children. This mistake was caused by two forms of conflict; internal and social. Social conflict occurred between Assef, Wali, and Kamal when Kamal and Wali refused to participate in the actual raping of Hassan. Wali claimed that his father “said it was sinful” (Hosseini, pg 75) and refused to partake in the act. The conflict between the three boys showed that what Assef was about to do was socially unacceptable to do to even a Hazara, who were considered to be the inferior group of people. This conflict is significant because it shows the severity of the mistake Amir was about to make by not helping Hassan. Hassan’s heritage had a

Amir faced social as well as internal conflict when faced with the decision that he made a mistake about. This monumental mistake affected him for his entire life. Mistakes have the ability to influence a person’s entire