Essay On Amir's Lie In 'The Kite Runner'

Lies are something that many people have said before, either for gain or harm. In The Kite Runner lying in the story leads some important events in the story. As the story goes one each lie affect the story in many ways as it guides the main character, Amir to start of his growth and to the end of this story. This is why I think lies is an important theme in The Kite Runner as it's used as a proxy for the actions of its main characters. As the novel goes on the Amir begins to wonder how his life could have differed if the lies weren’t prevalent. Khaled Hossenini’s novel, The Kite Runner, teaches the reader how lies lead to life and choices that were made during the story through Amir‘s lie affecting how he lives from then on and Baba’s lie could have lead to a different future.

Near the beginning of the novel Amir witnessed something terrible which caused him to consequently change his ideals and tell a lie that affected him and his family forever. Later in the future Amir is getting married to Soraya and he begins to wonder about people in his past “And I remember wondering if Hassan too had married. And if so, whose face had he seen in the mirror under the veil? Whose henna-painted hands had he held?” (171). Despite Amir’s guilt

about his past negligence he still wished that Hassan was still around and is sorry for the lie that drove him away.
Baba once said that “‘There is no act more wretched than stealing, Amir’” (18) and this applies to lies as well as he explains telling a lie is like stealing the right to the truth.

Aside from this ideal that was placed in Amir’s and probably Hassan’s heads all three of them have lied in one point. Amir lied about Hassan stealing his watch, Hassan covered for Amir when he was being framed, and Baba lied about Hassan’s and Amir’s true relations. “How could I have been so blind? The signs had been there for me to see all along;” (224) was Amir’s reaction to Baba’s lie and it’s rather justifiable. This leads Amir to wonder how his life would have been if he knew and how he felt robbed of the truth from the person he looked up to the

most.
Lies are like a sign on a splitting path showing a way next to the truth and which way life takes you is. Just as lies are just another option down in life the effects of those lies can change lives forever. With each option thought of what could have been if the truth had been known all along. The truth is usually the best option but even then they can lead to worse circumstances as well, but if it weren't for those lies Amir wouldn’t have grown into the man he is at the end of the book. Past actions are the deciding point in any future and in The Kite Runner Amir’s life specifically