Amir's Redemption Quotes

“For you a thousand times over” says Amir, to the son of his former servant, after he has redeemed himself for all of his actions. Amir is a man who finds courage through correcting his wrong doings by making new valuable decisions. Khaled Hosseini’s novel, The Kite Runner, expresses how lies can change someone’s life and how one man finds redemption through doing good. Upon doing good there are also many other ways that redemption must be found, taking on great responsibilities, fighting for what is right, and finding ways to become closer to God. Amir has found redemption through doing what is beneficial to others in his life. Amir’s guilt leads to going to Afghanistan, fighting Assef, and making a promise to God.
By taking on great responsibilities,

Once Amir found Sohrab, he is not able to take him without a price, Assef wants to fight Amir for the boy. Assef became a leader of the Taliban and once he found that Hassan had a child, he wanted to take him. Amir fought Assef only because it was Assef’s way of keeping his promise and it was Amir’s way to gain redemption. Amir felt like it was time to redeem himself for his actions that night in the alley. In the alley Amir watched Hassan get raped by Assef, he did this because he wanted to show his power. Assef had promised to get back at the boys for what they had done. He had the chance to fight Amir before, but “Assef had backed down, promised that in the end he’d get us both down. He’d kept his promise with Hassan. Now it was my turn” (Hosseini 286). Assef had made a threat to the boys that he would fight them sooner or later, he kept his word with Hassan by killing him and he now had to deal with Amir. This fight did not go as expected for Assef because Amir ended up winning for Sohrab. Amir has come this far with working toward redemption, he has won the fight against Assef and now he has taken

Following Sohrab’s suicide attempt, Amir was pleading to God and he made a promise to follow through in his religion, if he did not let Sohrab’s blood be on his hands as well as Hassan’s. While Sohrab was in the hospital, Amir prayed to God and pleaded that he save Sohrab and not let him die. Amir vows to do all of the required actions to follow religion and in return all he wants is to have Sohrab back and healthy. Amir pleads, “I will do all of this and I will think of Him every day from this day on if He only grants me this one wish: My hands are stained with Hassan’s blood; I pray God doesn’t let them get stained with the blood of his boy too” (Hosseini 346). Amir had the guilt of Hassan’s death on and he did not want the blood of Sohrab on his hands as well. Amir did not literally kill Hassan, but he felt guilty for the times that Hassan has stood up for him. Amir is working toward redemption with this because he vowed to be a follower of religion and meet all of the requirements of the