Redemption In The Kite Runner

This found poem was written in relation to Amir’s character transition from his youth to his matured self, and highlights how a person’s guilt can lead to redemption by taking action to make reparations for their mistakes, and seeking forgiveness from themselves. From the beginning, Amir has to desire to seek for Baba’s affection, but Baba never expresses it until they move to the States. As tension increase, Amir begins to think that capturing the kite in the kite tournament would lead to Baba’s approval, which would give him the happiness that he was looking for. Yet, Amir becomes a coward for not standing up for Hassan, allowing Hassan to be the “sacrificial lamb” and be raped, becoming the exact opposite figure Baba wanted him to become:

When Rahim Khan gives him an opportunity to seek redemption and to “become good again,” he forces himself to leave Pakistan “as soon as possible,” to travel to Afghanistan, where Sohrab supposedly resided in the orphanage. This is because Amir was “afraid [he would] change his mind,” and cowardly return back to America to remain safe. On another hand, he can not employ the idea of holding the feelings of guilt that has persisted in his mind for twenty-six years, and this situation evidently shows how he thinks that he would be able to seek redemption by simply rescuing Sohrab. As a result, he rescues Sohrab, and an unforeseen circumstance forces him to take him back home. By the time he realizes that there is no more guilt, he admits that Hassan represented what was “pure and noble” in Baba. This “blackness of sorrow” that Amir was suffering from finally lifts from his mind as he gives Sohrab the chance at happiness and prosperity that he single-handedly deny Hassan, which ultimately gives him a degree of peace. For the first time, Amir learns to sacrifice for other individuals, because he wants to receive the redemption he is looking for, and seek forgiveness for his past