Examples Of Forgiveness In The Kite Runner

Forgiveness: A brother’s journey
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini is an exciting and emotional book that stirs the reader into many different paths. An overarching theme that is shown throughout the two major characters (Amir and Hassan) is the element of forgiveness. The novel reveals a lot of racial and ethnicity discrimination and family secrets. As these lucrative statements get disclosed, the main character, Amir is shown to be battling with his own conscious. Forgiveness in the novel is shown in the two different relationships: Amir and Hassan, and Baba and Hassan. Amir in the entire novel tries to get his Baba’s attention and becomes very disloyal to his best friend, Hassan. On the contrary, Hassan stays by Amir’s side and always
One example is Assef beating Amir in chapter 22. Assef beats Amir with his famous brass knuckles. As Amir is getting beaten to death he says “My body was badly broken- just how badly I wouldn’t find out until later-but felt healed. Healed at last. I laughed (289). During this time in the novel, the readers see that Amir has a kidney stone and while Assef is beating him, the kidney stone is healing. During the beating, Amir also feels that he should have accepted the beating from Assef years ago, when he was given the choice of saving Hassan—and likely getting physically hurt—or letting Assef rape Hassan. Since that incident, Amir struggled with his guilt. He had even gone looking for punishment in the past, as when he tried to get Haasan to hit him with the pomegranates because he felt that there would be some justice for the way he treated Hassan. As Amir constantly threw pomegranates at Hassan, Hassan never got angry or reacted differently. Amir wanted Hassan’s anger and aggressiveness, which he never got because Hassan was faithful to Amir. However, Amir’s guilt lingered until his confrontation with Assef, which despite the physical pain, made him feel psychologically healed. Another opportunity that Amir got in the novel to get rid of his guilt in the beginning of the novel when Rahim Khan says “there is a way to be good again” in the phone. To represent Rahim Khan’s action, I drew a black telephone to represent the phone call in the beginning of the novel. The phone call was the beginning of Amir’s journey to forgiveness. Before the phone call, Amir lived with his beautiful wife and sorrowful guilt and sin. Near the phone I wrote the word Afghanistan with many branches coming out. The reason for that drawing is to show the many ways Amir gained forgiveness by going back to Kabul from San Francisco. The different colors in of