How Does Amir Use Forgiveness In The Kite Runner

According to Eduardo Macedo, “True redemption is seized when you accept the future consequences for your past mistakes.” Redemption can be perceived in multiple different perspectives, some spiritual process, and for others an internal process of forgiveness. This is why Amir had already received forgiveness from Hassan because Hassan had given various options to rekindle Hassan and Amir’s relationship, but Amir’s internal fight against himself forbid him from being redeemed. Until Amir’s meeting with Rahim Khan, Amir had given up on redemption, but once he realized that he can get rid of the burden of guilt within him, Amir took his venture to redemption. He accepted his past mistakes and took the consequences that faced him in Afghanistan.

Throughout the book, the struggles of Amir trying to redeem himself to Baba for murdering Amir’s mother, and the struggle to accept the guilt that came along with him witnessing Hassan’s rape and departure from his family were unbearable to Amir for a great length of his lifetime. In the book, Amir had always felt guilty for being the son that murdered his mother and always felt like he had to do something better to earn Baba’s attention. On page 19 he expresses his guilt by saying “because the truth of it was, I always felt like Baba hated me a little. And why not? After all, I had killed his beloved wife, his beautiful princess hadn’t I? The least I could have done was to have the decency to have turned out a little more like him. But I hadn’t turned out like him. Not at all.” Amir believes he cannot liberate himself for murdering his father’s happiness, leading him to make reckless choices to prove his worth to his father. In the hopes to redeem himself to

Years later, Amir learned to redeem himself through the help of Rahim Khan bringing him back on the path to redemption. Rahim Khan opened Amir’s eyes on page 227 by saying “There is a way to be good again, he said. A way to end the cycle. With a little boy. An orphan. Hassan’s son. Somewhere in Kabul.” This is when Amir went on a journey to find Sohrab and came face to face with the consequences of his past. Amir said “for the first time since the winter of 1975, I felt at peace” when he was fighting with Assef, he felt as if he deserved the pain he was receiving for all the wrong he had done. However, that wasn’t enough for him until he made sure to rescue Sohrab and give a safe home, that Sohrab can live in and be jubilant just like the other children his age. Through the journey to rescue Sohrab, he earned the characteristics of being a mature and responsible adult. Someone that cares for another, regardless of status and looks at another as if they are a human. Coming face to face with his mistakes, wrongdoings, and accepting the sins he became a mature