When an individual responds to injustice, they gain self-respect. If an individual suffers from hardship memory, they must respond to the injustice to maintain self-respect. Some individuals might be forgiven, atoned, or redeemed for their unjustified memory. In Khaled Hosseini's The Kite Runner, the author develops the idea that an individual seeking forgiveness, atonement, and redemption gains self-respect when responding to injustice from their past memories. In other words, responding to unjustified past memories gains an individual's self-respect when seeking forgiveness, atonement, and redemption. This idea is seen in the protagonist Amir who forgives himself and he finally responds to injustice and gains self-respect. He suffers from past memories of him disrespecting and not taking injuries for Hassan but Amir atones himself from his past …show more content…
wrong doings. Amir's major injustice from his past memory is when he flies kites while Hassan is the kite runner, and also for not standing up for Hassan, but he redeems himself and gains self-respect. Amir forgives himself for his hardship memory and his injustice. Before he forgives himself, Rahim Khan tells him over a phone call that "There is a way to be good again." At this moment, he is not responding much to injustice and he is not gaining self-respect. If he forgives himself and "be good again," then he can forgive his past wrong doings. Rahim Khan's letter addressed to Amir to "Forgive your father if you can. Forgive me if you wish. But, most important, forgive yourself." By forgiving himself from the past, he can finally show self-respect to himself. He can respect that he made the decision of being unfair to Hassan. One must forgive themselves from their injustice in order to gain self-respect. Amir atones himself and gains self-respect when responding to his past injustice memory. In Farid's house of one morning, Amir says "I planted a fistful of crumpled money under a mattress." In his childhood, he placed money and a watch under Hassan's bed and he is responding to his unfairness memory. He atones himself by giving back to the family in need and gains self-respect. The self-respect of his is him respecting his decision. Another atonement of him is when he goes through the fighting scene with Assef. For twenty-six years, Amir has been haunted by the memory of him not standing up for Hassan. Hassan is beaten up and raped by Assef and Amir lives in guilt for most of his life. Eventually Amir is atoned for taking the hit from Assef and gains more self-respect. By accepting the injury by Assef is a sign of his self-respect and atonement. One must atone their past injustice memory in order to gain self-respect. Amir redeems himself from the memory of giving unfairness to Hassan.
One night while eating dinner, General Taheri tells Amir that he is embarrassed to have a Hazard boy as a step-grandson. Amir stands up for Sohrab and tells him that he has a name and that Sohrab is his uncle. Unlike in the past, he left Hassan get raped by Assef and it shows the unfairness of the relationship. He redeems himself for standing up for Sohrab and gains his self-respect. He respects his confidence of him speaking up in front of the general. The final redemption is when he becomes the kite runner. At the end he says "I ran with the wind blowing in my face, and a smile as wide as the Valley of Panjsher on my lips." The memory of Hassan chasing kites for Amir is finally achieved and he finally redeems himself as the kite runner. Therefore it helps him gains his self-respect. His self-respect is him being redeemed and now he is proud of his decision. The injustice here is that Amir got all the recognition for flying kites and Hassan got barely any credit. One must redeem themselves from their past injustice doings in order to gain
self-respect. In Khaled Hosseini's The Kite Runner, the author suggests the idea that when an individual responds to injustice from their past memory, then they gain self-respect when they are seeking forgiveness, atonement, and redemption. Forgiveness is achieved when Amir forgives himself of his bad memories. He is atoned for his past injustice wrong doings such as putting the money under the mattress and being beaten up by Assef. Finally, he seeks redemption when he stands up for Sohrab and becoming the kite runner. He is buying back his unfairness of Hassan and Amir from his past memory. With forgiveness, atonement, redemption, and responding to his injustice from his memory, he achieves self-respect. To conclude, when an individual responds to injustice, they gain self-respect.
As he grows into a man and pushes his regrets to the side - though not ever completely out of his mind - he learns to live through and accept the pain he caused both himself and his best friend, Hassan. Towards the end of the novel, Amir goes to great lengths to earn the redemption he feels he needs in order to finally be at peace. The Kite Runner asks the audience what it truly means to be a good person - do we need to be born with goodness in our hearts, do we live the way that is comfortable and right according to ourselves, or do we have to constantly fail and prove that we are good?
The Kite Runner is a book about a young boy, Amir, who faces many struggles as he grows up in Kabul and later moves to America to flee from the Taliban. His best friend and brother , Hassan, was a big part of his life, but also a big part of guilt he held onto for many years. The book describes Amir’s attempt to make up for the past and resolve his sins so he can clear his conscious. Amir is worthy of forgiveness because although he was selfish, he was very brave and faced his past.
Redemption is gaining honor and self-forgiveness through a selfless act that reflects off of one’s regretful actions of their past. In the novel, The Kite Runner, Amir is the main character who goes through many life struggles and mistakes, then finds himself on a road to redemption. Amir and Hassan were best friends throughout their childhood and Hassan was the honorable, trusting best friend, the one to always take a stand for what he believed was right. Amir’s lack of courage caused him to stay silent in the worst of times, letting Hassan get tortured for the things he did not deserve. The themes of sacrifice, honor and redemption are carried out in many ways throughout this novel being shown through the actions of Hassan, Baba, and Amir.
To atone for his past sins, he embarks on a journey back to Afghanistan to redeem himself to Hassan for not treating him the way he was treated. He redeems himself by saving Sohrab and giving him a safer and enjoyable life in the Untied States. Amir tyres to attain redemption to baba for being the cause of his mother’s death as he believes. Gaining his fathers love and care will make him feel redeemed from all of the resentment and lack of care that his father shows to him. He must prove to Baba that he is worthy of spending time with everyday because he feels the hatred that his father shows to him. One way how he gets redemption from his father is by winning the kite running tournament to prove to him that he is worthy of being his son. Amir’s path of redemption is not only directed to other people but personal redemption for himself. He attempts to redeem himself by building an orphanage with his wife Soraya and giving Sohrab the childhood that is safer and more suitable for a young boy to grow up in. Amir has to realize that the past doesn’t define who someone is although you can’t forget the past, the actions that they decide to do to redeem themselves from the past mistakes defines who someone is. If Amir’s mother did not die at birth would he be resented from his father greatly and have to make great
At the beginning of The Kite Runner, young Amir wins a kite fighting tournament. He feels like he has finally redeemed himself for his father. However, Amir’s happy day turns dark, when an hour later, he witnesses Hassan, his best friend, raped in an alley. He had “one final opportunity to decide who [he] was going to be. (77) Instead of standing up for his friend and...
As a foreword, the story of The Kite Runner focuses on a man named Amir. In his childhood, he enjoyed a high-class life in Kabul, Afghanistan, living with his father Baba. They have two servants, Ali and his son Hassan. They are Hazaras, a lower class ethnic minority in Afghanistan. In one Winter of their childhood, Amir and Hassan participate in a kite-fighting tournament; the goal is to be the last kite flying. When a kite is cut, boys chase after it as a trophy. Amir wins the tournament, and Hassan flies to catch the losing kite. Later, following Hassan's path, Amir comes upon a neighbourhood bully named Assef about to rape Hassan who has the trophy, the blue kite. Amir does not interject, believing this will secure him the kite. Thus, Amir sets forth a chain of events he must redeem in his adulthood.
The story The Kite Runner is centered around learning “to be good again.” Both the movie and the book share the idea that the sins of the past must be paid for or atoned for in the present. In the book, Amir can be seen as a troubled young boy who is struggling with a tremendous amount of guilt. It is easy to blame Amir’s actions on his guilt and his father’s lack of love for him.
In his first historical fiction novel, Khaled Hosseini tells the story of a young boy growing up in Afghanistan. The Kite Runner is the story of Amir, the young boy, and the path his life takes because of the decisions he makes when he is a young child. Forgiveness is woven throughout the book as it takes Amir to places he might not have gone if he hadn’t been able to forgive.
In the literature, The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini, the idea and representation of justice, and its relationship to that of the treatment of women in Afghan society, the ever-changing politics of Afghanistan, and the desired results of redemption and forgiveness, become illustrated through the novel’s characters and motives. Justice can be defined as the quality of being guided by truth, reason, and fairness. The Kite Runner illustrates the power of influence from an outside power and its effects on society, and the minds and lifestyles of the people. In relationship to the Cheverus High School Grad-at-Grad profile the actions and wrongdoings that take place in the The Kite Runner and in Afghanistan prove to be injustice.
Amir also committed a sin that affected him negatively throughout his life. This sin occurred when Hassan, Amir’s best friend during his childhood, was getting raped by Assef. This situation occurred when the children were chasing kites. Hassan got the kite first, but Assef insisted that he wanted the kite. Assef also had a racial and religious prejudice against Hassan. Because Hassan did not give the kite, Assef decides to rape Hassan as a “punishment”. Instead of helping his friend out, Amir just walked away from the scene and let Hassan get violated in one of the most vulgar ways. After this incident, Hassan quietly walked back home and gave Amir the kite for which he was confronted by Assef for. The kite in this situation proves to be an important symbol. Whereas earlier in the novel the kite represented happiness and fun to Amir, in this situation it represented sin and guilt to Amir. The only reason that Hassan got raped was that he was trying to get a kite for Amir. Now the kite acts a reminder to Hassan of his wrong-doing and it will now begin to haunt him for a long time. Although when in America, Amir does not get reminded about Hassan, deep inside he still feels guilty. Amir immediately begins to feel the most guilt when he goes to Iran when Rahim Khan, Amir’s childhood friend, asks him to come. He feels that Rahim Khan has reminded him of his “past of unatoned sins”(Hosseini 2).
During The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini reinforces the theme of the loss of innocence and redemption. Many characters lose innocence or are the cause of another character losing theirs. Amir both loses his innocence and that of others. His innocence is stolen by his father. In the novel Amir overhears Baba saying, “‘If I hadn’t seen the doctor pull him out of my wife with my own eyes, I’d never believe he’s my son’” (Hosseini 24-25). This affects Amir for his entire life as he tries to compete with Hassan for his father's attention. He does not realize that in doing so, this crumbles his world as he knows it. It makes Amir resentful, calloused, and even cruel, all of which are characteristics of someone who has lost their innocence. In turn, Amir’s loss of innocence causes other to lose their innocence because of his lack of courage and disregard for others feelings.
The Kite Runner tells the story of Amir and Hassan, two best friends, close like brothers and experts at kite flying. The novel starts off with a flashback to the winter of 1975 which he refers to as an event that made him who he is today and sets the tone for the entire novel. The narrator of the story, Amir, stirs our curiosity upon what could possibly have occured in his past to garner such an introduction Being the antihero, he begins the story by highlighting two important lines: “... for you a thousand times over ” and “...there is a way to be good again” (Hosseini 210). These ideas about forgiveness are ever present within The Kite Runner. Hassan's own language and treatment of Amir that he forgives Amir for his sin, although Amir’s
As a child, I often discovered limitations that were not meant to be passed, as well as feelings that lingered after breaking such restrictions. One particularly rebellious day, I stole a twenty-dollar bill from my mother’s purse, which was clearly meant for the babysitter. Soon after, a feeling of guilt prevailed throughout my body, similar to guilt displayed by characters in The Kite Runner. Although guilt is a common sentiment found in The Kite Runner, each individual contains unique levels of intensity and personal consequences. In this powerful novel, Khaled Hosseini advocated the importance of ascertaining guilt, recognizing loyalty, and honoring courage.
Throughout The Kite Runner Hosseini demonstrates that through unscrupulous decisions and immoral conduct, feelings of guilt have the power
Throughout the beginning of “The kite Runner” and towards the midway there is a reoccurring theme of redemption. The main character Amir, during the middle of the novel struggles with the guilt of breaking the best friendship he had ever had with the only person who had always been there for him. The horrible memory he had created as a young boy still haunt him throughout his adulthood in the United States. The theme of redemption is most prominent when his friend, Rahim Khan calls Amir telling him, “there is a way to be good again.” (Chapter 14). This is the initiating incident driving Amir back to Afghanistan to finds Hassan’s son and the introduction to one of the main themes of redemption. Amir finally gaining the courage to do the right thing by saving Hassan’s son at the cost, he