The Kite Runner Quote Analysis

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In Kite Runner there are many lesson that could be learned and many things are shown to the reader that the author is trying to point out. “It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime, Amir” he said” (Hosseini 142). One thing you do can change your whole life and make things either more difficult or easier. The scene in which Baba tells Amir about Soraya past in Khaled Hosseini’s novel, The Kite Runner, is important because Hosseini uses it to establish one thing you do can change your whole life and make things either more difficult or easier through Soraya running off with a guy, Amir watching Hassan get raped, and Baba lies. The decisions we make now as adolescents and young adults follow us our whole lives. Yet, the smallest mistake we make now can change how we live and how our lives will look for us in the future or near the future. On the other hand, we see this happen when Soraya had ran off with a guy she was dating when she had stayed in Virginia and the other Afghans started talking about her and about her situation. …show more content…

As a result, when Rahim Khan had told Amir that Hassan and him were brothers and that it was Baba that was Hassan real father. It had hurt him especially since Amir is a grown man now and just finding out, it had hurt him because now that he looks at it he pushed away his brother. “How could you hide this from me? From him?” I bellowed. “Please think, Amir jan. It was a shameful situation. People would talk. All that a man had back then, all that he was, was his honor, his name, and if people talked… We couldn’t tell anyone, surely you can see that.”(Hosseini 223). Baba’s lie had made it hard for Amir and affected him knowing what he had did was wrong. Thinking before we do or say something would be best cause we could hurt someone in the long run and not even know

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