Khaled Hosseini’s novel The Kite Runner, he shows how betrayal leads to the need for redemption in order for your guilt to be relieved while showing how this betrayal is caused by classism. We see this in the novel's protagonist Amir betrayal of another main character Hassan by not defending him when he was being raped by Assef. Then justifying his actions by saying that he is just a Hazara and that it makes Assef raping him okay. After this scene in the novel, we see how Amir now carries an overwhelming sense of guilt with him. For Amir to be able to relieve this guilt that he carries over his betrayal to Hassan he must find a way to redeem himself. Later on in the novel when Rahim Khan gives Amir and tells him to come to Afghanistan that