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Amir In John Steinbeck's The Kite Runner

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Amir is the main character that because of his actions he is consider a wicked or villainous human. The reason why Amir is considered an iniquitous person because he treats Hassan like if he was ignominious even though Hassan acts toward as a loyal friend. When the reader scrutinizes the book the reader reacts more sympathetically than the reader otherwise might because Baba has rejected him most of his life until he graduates from high school. Amir makes the reader react more vicarious throughout the story by telling the stories on how awful his childhood was. Amir was an awful person because he did not care about Hassan’s loyalty for him. Amir in the story tries to make the reader feel sympathy for him so that the reader forgets about the …show more content…

Baba got cancer when Amir was at his best time of his life. Amir graduating was one of his best moments and he still gets a bad outcome with his father getting cancer. Amir’s life will always be bad since all the bad things he did are coming back to haunt him in different forms. The reader is always feeling sympathetic since he gets something good and then something bad happens and then the reader feels sorry since the reader doesn’t notice that Amir deserves everything that happens to him. Amir in the story goes through some awful stuff but it is not the same as what Hassan went through. Amir in the story tries to make his story harsher so that the reader forgets about Hassan and focuses in Amir. The readers are giving more sympathy to Amir than Hassan because he goes through more stuff but Amir didn’t suffer what Hassan suffered. Hassan was betrayed many times by Amir. Amir was an awful person who betrayed in many occasions Hassan who was considered his best friend. Amir tried to make the reader sympathize his actions and Amir accomplished it since the reader felt sorry and no one would image the horrors he when through. Amir also tried make the reader sympathizes more about him than Hassan. It was partially the fault of Baba of making Amir this person. Amir a selfish, reprobate, and dishonest. Amir was suffering from the pain of his past and he could not escape the

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The author provides the reader with mixed feeling about Amir. In his childhood in Kabul Amir comes off as heartless person. He is this because he has done evil stuff in his life. In the beginning of the story something bad happens to Hassan, Amir says,¨In the end, I ran.

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In Khaled Hosseini’s novel, The Kite Runner, Amir struggles to cope with his inaction during Hassan’s rape. Overwhelmed with guilt, Amir devises a plan to get Hassan and Ali dismissed so they would no longer be a constant reminder of all the times Hassan had protected him and his failure to do the same. The guilt of betraying Hassan burdens him for years, and even after he and Baba move to America, he carries the weight of his actions with him. However, after he accepts Rahim Khan’s request to rescue Sohrab and bring him to safety, Amir strives to leave behind the selfishness and cowardice he had previously succumbed to. Amir progressively begins to forgive himself for his injustices towards Hassan as he recognizes his evolution from a coward

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Therefore I think Hassan knew he had let Amir know that he would always find a friend in Kabul. In doing that Hassan showed Amir that forgiving is important and never too late. The last character to influence Amir was Baba because he shaped Amir into the man he is. In the letter that Rahim Khan left for Amir when he arrived back in Pakistan in the hospital, he reads, “When he saw you , he saw himself.”

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Can Amir be good again… ? This is the exact question that has been continuously running through my mind with each turn of the page in The Kite Runner, though before hand, I found myself wondering what aspects, qualities, or characteristics have ever defined Amir as “good” in the first place? Furthermore, by the term, “good”, do our minds think of “good” as in only benefiting thyself, or benefiting those of the world around us? Before one can determine if Amir can be good again, these questions that linger in the depths of our mind must be brought to the surface of reality and acknowledged. As far as the reader knows, Hassan and Amir both started life at the same place, but when one analyzes the characters personal characteristics, they foil each other in such a way that Hassan seems to have a sole purpose of exposing the flaws of Amir throughout their childhood, leaving an everlasting impact on the reader's thoughts, in which it is hard for the reader to detect the good in Amir when there seems to be so much bad.

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On the other hand, Amir was portrayed as an unloyal friend until the end of the book. Amir treated Hassan badly out of jealousy and shame. However, Amir was able to atone for his mistreatment by taking care of Sohrab. He finally shows his loyalty towards Hassan by giving Sohrab a better life in America. Farid was another loyal friend.

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It’s human nature to want to be liked by everyone. Obviously, though, is impossible. Amir feels neglected and unloved and strives to change this. He focuses on his father 's interests and as a result of this Amir changes. He matures and values intelligence more.

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In the novel the Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini he illustrates the sacrifice one gives for love. Over the course of the novel Amir, Hassan, and Baba all face dramatic events that shape them to the person they are. Each one of them sacrifice a piece of their own happiness for the one they love. Hassan is loyal to Amir even though in their childhood Amir was not a good friend. Baba sacrifices his life in Afghanistan for Amir to have an education in America.

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Baba and Amir ultimately grew a stronger bond but at the expense of permanent guilt for Amir. The father-son relationship that occurs throughout this story enables the reader to personally connect with Amir, which explains the novel’s universal

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Amir is an ambiguous character because of what he did in the story to one of his good friend but then later on in the story he shows some good in and I think that he really showed that he can be a good guy. What Amir has done that is bad is that he watched his best friend Hassan get rapped in the allyway and he did nothing, when he watched it happen he got scared and ran away instead of being a good friend and helping him out and protecting him. Amir was a bad friend through out the rest of the years he lived there. Hassan never wanted to talk to him anymore for what he did.

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Although, Amir shows many acts of kindness and selflessness, in the end, he was not able to truly redeem himself. To begin, Amir started his journey to redemption with conviction and confession although he was not very successful. The guilt bothered Amir very often even in his adulthood when he believed he had been denied “fatherhood for the thing [he] had done.” (188) Almost immediately after Amir watched Hassan get raped he believed he had done something wrong. He believed he could not have children with Soraya because he did not help Hassan, but he does not confess until more than fifteen years later.

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Thus, glancing towards either direction to make sure that ‘the coast is clear’. He deprives Hassan and Ali from the house they have served faithfully for a long time, thereby stealing the truth from Hassan and depriving them of a home they knew well. Amir is driven by both the greed for his father’s attention and the guilt of being helpless when Hassan was raped. The reason why he couldn’t remain under the same roof as Hassan was because he felt guilty that he hadn’t tried to stop the rape and save his friend. The reason why he couldn’t step in to save his friend was because he was not strong enough and wanted to please his father at any

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The main character had to manage his father’s neglect while growing up. All Amir really wants is to be “looked at, not seen, listened to, not heard” (Hosseini 65), and while this conflict shapes the way that Amir grew up, readers are exposed to the

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The saddest part was that Amir was there watching from a distance and was unwilling to help his best friend due to his lack of courage and inability to stand up for himself. Up until adulthood, Amir had to carry the baggage of betraying Hassan by not being there when he most needed him, this guilt tormented him to the point where he moved to America with his dad, Baba, as a way to escape his

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He was just a middle age gas station worker. For Amir it was all he ever wanted, to be was under the raider. Not baba though he wanted to be known by all and respected by all. So in the middle of the book we see a switch. We see how Amir Character developed how he go from a scared little boy to a young confident men.

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Baba neglected Amir, which caused him to make poor decisions, while vying for his father’s love. Amir finds his true self and in the end his relationship with Baba helped to form him into the man he was at the end of the novel, one Baba is proud of. A loving and empathetic fatherly figure is necessary in a son’s

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