Amir went to an orphanage to find the child, but was told he had been taken by an officer of the government. This is when the hero in Amir starts to show. Feeling guilty for what had happened to Hassan, he felt that he had to leave and go and find Sohrab, Hassan’s son. He leaves and find the guard who took Sohrab. His name is Assef.
After Amir meets with Rahim Khan and knows the fact that Hassan’s son, Sohrab, was in the orphanage, it is time for him to seek redemption. Amir decision of bring Sohrab to Pakistan is because of not only Rahim Khan’s request but also a way to be good again. It is his first active step he takes towards atoning for his past and it demonstrates Amir’s first conscious decision to think of another before himself, even it means risking everything he has, including his life and the welfare of his family. Amir now understands that he can endeavour to gain redemption by sacrificing himself to rescue Sohrab. As Amir continues to find Sohrab and tries to save him from Assef, he is willing to sacrifice himself for a chance to get Sohrab back.
I was going to Kabul. Told him to call the Caldwells in the morning” (227). Amir’s journey to Kabul is an effort to right his previous wrongs and give to Hassan’s son what Hassan never had--a new beginning. After bringing him out of Kabul, Amir and Sohrab face many other challenges, but they stick through it no matter how tough. He asks Sohrab if he would like to move to America, and live with him and his wife, even though that was not his original intention.
After Amir, who is looking for Hassan, sees Hassan get raped by the older group of Afghan boys, Amir is reluctant to stand up for his friend and runs away. He becomes guilty of his act of betrayal and starts to avoid his friend. After getting fed up of his guilt, which emerges from seeing his friend, he asks his dad to go to Jalalabad for vacation. As Amir goes to Jalalabad with his father and other relatives, he is caught up in his guilt, giving him an uneasy ride. Even after moving away from the house for some days, he still feels guilty in their hotel at Jalalabad.
I'll pay for it if it is a matter of money.” but in the end Amir decided to go to kabul and end the cycle of betrayal in his family. Amir is performing a good deed for his mistakes. In this case he is taking hassans son,sohrab, to the united states as a refugee. This is showing that amir is taking responsibility and is going to face his problems instead of paying his problems
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.
When Farid confronts Amir about his business in Afghanistan, he tells the family about his quest to find his nephew, Sohrab. They call him “an honorable man” and “a true Afghan” which makes Amir uncomfortable because in his mind, those descriptions define Hassan, not himself (238). At first, he does not agree with them and still views himself as a coward. However, those comments also nourish the idea that because he made the selfless decision to risk his life to save Sohrab, maybe he really can be able to adopt some of Hassan 's honorable qualities and forgive himself. Having seen tangible evidence of the changes in his demeanor, the weight of his guilt lessens, but Amir still cannot completely forgive himself.
When Amir went back to Afghanistan because of Rahim Khan’s letter, he went to redeem himself for his past mistakes. He needed to get rid of the guilt that has been haunting him for years. "What was so funny was that, for the first time since the winter of 1975 I felt at peace. I laughed because I saw that, in some nook in the corner of my mind, I had been looking forward to this." (Hosseini 289).
After rescuing Sohrab from Assef, Amir feels like he is making up for not being there for Hassan. Amir did something that was truly brave and noble. By saving Sohrab and giving him a better life in America, Amir was able to find a way to be good again. Just like Rahim Khan said he would over the phone. Amir will never be able to fully forgive himself for what happened in the winter of 1975, however, by working to become a better person, he can slowly redeem himself and move forward with his life.
Rahim acts as a physical link between the characters and themes of the story, a middleman that deepens the context of the plot. The role of a father-figure, shared by Baba and Rahim Khan is a complex relationship that heavily impacts Amir’s actions and emotions. Whilst Baba is the biological father and role model of Amir, it is Rahim Khan who is the one to provide emotional support, and stability. Amir’s selfish tendencies are a result of the lack of affection that is given to him by Baba, a man who wants to, but struggles to find similarities between himself and Amir.
Amir is the main focus of the novel; it basically starts with his childhood all the way until he’s an adult. He was one of the most wealthy people in Afghanistan, until the Russian’s take over later on. His father, Baba, is very respected by others. Baba never paid much attention to his son, also his honesty with him was very poor. Therefore, Amir would spend most of his childhood with his servant, Hassan.
Finally when he thought he couldn’t take the guilt anymore, he blames Hassan for stealing money from him and forces him out of baba’s house. Although he never sees Hassan again, he does not forget the terrible sins he committed. After years of holding the guilt of his doings, Amir sets out to seek for redemption. Amir goes back to where it all started, Kabul, to find Hassan’s son Sohrab.
He resists for Amir whom he loves with his whole heart. Amir witnesses this struggle, but he does nothing; he runs away since “he was just a Hazara, wasn’t he?” (Hosseini 77). Amir has always believed, deep down, that his father favored Hassan, a Hazara, the dirt of Afghan society, over him, his own son. Seeing Hassan reduced to that level of baseness is perversely satisfying for him.
At the same time, it is possible to look that Rahim Khan feels calm but also he feels tired because of his illness. As the shot continues, the audience is able to see that Amir feels proud and excited to show his published book to Rahim Khan, as soon as Rahim Khan reads the dedication, Rahim Khan expression has changed from tired to proud and happy. Foster keeps the camera at the same high an angle as the conversation continues and the intensity of the dialogue starts to rise. Rahim Khan’s expression changes from happy to serious when he says to Amir the following “I didn’t bring you here to complain about my health.
On the hospital bed, Sohrab tells Amir that he is tired of everything, wants his previous life back, and that Amir should have just abandoned him to perish. Amir responds: “I can’t give you your old life back, I wish to God I could. But I can take you with me… You
