Motivation

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Many believe that you bury the past, but it is not until you compensate for your sins that the past will rest in peace. In the kite runner Amir runs away from his problems for his entire life. The wrong decisions and weakness of his childhood assigns him a position to redeem his sins and create a new existence. In the kite runner Amir must forgive and redeem himself before he is able to accept the responsibilities of future relationships. Amir has buried many sins of his past, and he is beginning to realize how past sins are always able to find their way out.
Firstly, the loyal friendship between Amir and Hassan is developed, gets corrupted and then ends. As Amir States, “I never thought of Hassan and me as friends…history is not easy to overcome. Neither is religion. In the end I was a Pashtun and he was a Hazara, I was Sunni and he was Shi’a, and nothing was ever going to change that. Nothing.”(27) Despite the fact that Amir has spent his entire life in Hassan’s company he does not consider Hassan to be his friend. This is because of the social class, Hassan’s religion is seen to below Amir, and this why they will neverbe able to be friends. They grew up together and learned to crawl together. But history and religion takes over all of the factors in the relationship of Hassan and Amir, and Amir decides that he does not this relationship more than a master and his servant. Amir expresses, “I had one last chance to make a decision. One final opportunity to decide who I was going to be. I could step into the alley, stand up for Hassan –the way he had stood up for me all those time in the past . Or I could run. In the end. I ran.”(82) Amir was always trying to please Baba, to make him proud, to seek his approval. Ami...

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...) When Amir finds Sohrab with the Taliban he was determined to finally do the right thing and be strong. He was finally receiving the retribution he deserved when he did not protect Hassan. Amir needed to feel the punishment for all his buried sins. Amir was able to rescue Sohrab.
In conclusion, through Amir’s betrayal towards Hassan, leads to breaking the relationship with each other and also both their fathers. The strong connection between Amir and Hassan represents strong brotherhood but the consequential troubles breaks the bond. Amir’s guilt leads him to break a strong brotherly relationship with Hassan and Amir’s guilt haunts him for more than 30 years, but when he rescues and adopts Sohrab, the guilt ends and Amir redeems his past sins. Amir attempts to change what he did in his childhood and redeems it by retribution of his sins.

Source: USA news

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