Courage In The Kite Runner

There are different kinds of courage a person can have. There is no one way courage can be defined. A man who confronts a murderer can be considered courageous, and a man who leaves his best friend of forty two years can also be regarded as courageous. The only action in common between these two events is the fact that they are doing something that would frighten them. In Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner, there are different kinds of courage each character in the book experiences. Amir, Hassan, and Baba are three characters in the book that can all be considered courageous, but they are all courageous in different ways.In the story, Amir, Baba, and Hassan did things that frightened them, but they were able to get over their fears and do what

He stood up to people he knew would be able to make his life miserable. He did all of this while remaining calm. Doing that takes a lot of courage and bravery because he knew there was a chance of something terrible happening to him. “‘If you make a move, they’ll have to change your name from Assef ‘The Ear Eater’ to ‘One-Eyed Assef,’ because I have this rock pointed at your left eye.’ He said this so flatly that even I had to strain to hear the fear that I knew hid under his calm voice” (Hosseini 42). In this quote, Hassan is pointing a slingshot at Assef’s left eye, ready to shoot him after he knocked him over with a rock. This shows Hassan’s courage, because as said by Amir, Hassan is scared of Assef; he could hear it in his voice, and he is standing there ready to embarrass him. Another example of Hassan’s courage is all the times when he took the blame for everything Amir did. “‘Yes, Father,’ Hassan would mumble, looking down at his feet. But he never told on me. Never told that the mirror, like shooting walnuts at the neighbor 's dog, was always my idea” (4). Later in the book, when Baba called Ali and Hassan into the house when Amir left the money and the watch under Hassan’s pillow, Hassan is still taking the blame for him.“Hassan’s reply was a single word, delivered in a thin, raspy voice: ‘Yes’” (105). In these two quotes, the reader see even though Hassan got in

In the part of the book where he left Afghanistan, it was evident he did not want to leave at all. “For me, America was a place to bury my memories. For Baba, a place to mourn his” (129). It takes a great deal of strength to move away from a place somebody lived their whole life. Amir only lived his childhood in Afghanistan; Baba lived most of his life there. Afghanistan was his home. He was born there, and he belonged there. One of the only times in the book that isn’t emotional courage is the time Baba stood up to the Russian soldier. He was ready to get shot to keep the soldier from getting time with the woman in the back of the truck. He was completely serious when doing it too. “Tell him I 'll take a thousand of his bullets before I let this indecency take place"(116). The soldier had a gun pointed at Baba, and Baba would not move until he was dead. Both Baba and the Russian soldier were serious during the whole ordeal. This took a lot of courage, Baba knew he was about to die, and he was ready