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Admitting that you have done something wrong is nails on a chalkboard, it can be painful. Within the novel, The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini, childhood friends, Amir and Hassan grow up in Afghanistan during a time of civil unrest. When Amir and Hassan’s loyalties are tested by traumatic events, Amir must learn how to atone for his actions. The concept of atonement can be examined throughout the novel. Lack of atonement is present within The Kite Runner when Amir frames Hassan for stealing his birthday gifts. As an example, Amir hears that Baba, his father, forgives Ali, Hassan’s father, and Hassan, although Hassan didn’t atone for what he was being accused of. “Except Baba stunned me by saying, I forgive you.” (Hosseini 105) When Baba forgives …show more content…

For example, after Rahim Khan and Amir talk about Amir’s true family history, Amir leaves and gets tea, where he sees a table falling apart and decides to fix it. “I wished I could fix my own life as easily.” (Hosseini 225) Wishing that he could fix his life shows that their conversation made Amir feel like he couldn’t make up for his, and his father’s actions. Instead of seeking atonement, he only wishes he could make up for things, lacking any atonement. He did something wrong but believes he has no way to make up for it. But, after fixing the table, Amir starts to realize that Rahim Khan was directing Amir to make up for his and Baba’s actions. “And with that came this realization: that Rahim Khan had summoned me here to atone not just for my sins but for Baba’s too.” (Hosseini 226) This realization is significant because Amir realizes that he can make up for everything. After many years of living with what he has done and finding out what his father has done also, he knows that he can achieve atonement. He isn’t wishing that he could fix things anymore, he realizes that he can. At first, he lacked atonement, only wishing he could change things, but then, he realizes how to achieve

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Baba’s unforgivable sin; Baba had one sin that he told Amir that he would never forgive anyone for and that was stealing. Amir, by setting Hassan up just stole Baba’s right to the truth by lying. Amir also stole Baba’s ability to have a friendship with Ali because Ali and Hassan decided to leave the family for good. Amir set Hassan up so that Amir could try to forget about what he didn’t do for Hassan. Baba’s forgiveness is ironic because he actually forgave Hassan.

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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).

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It’s the main reason for the plot of the story with Amir. Although from just being hard to do, if forgiveness isn’t done it will keep emotions and guilt with someone into the future. Therefore, for someone to be happy they must be able to forgive, forget, and can move on with what happened. Even with the worst sins, we can still forgive people to help build and maintain relationships. Holding onto bad emotions has nothing good come from

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Furthermore, Baba forgives Hassan after he is caught stealing. Amir struggles to believe that his father can forgive Hassan for the ultimate sin when he claims, “And if Baba could forgive that, then why couldn’t he forgive me for not being the son he’d always wanted” (Hosseini 89). Baba forgives Hassan even though theft is his greatest sin because he didn’t want them to

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Kite Runner Essay- Hayden Pritchard In the novel The Kite Runner written by Khaled Hosseini, the author uses characterization, plot structure, and tone throughout the story while portraying the minor (in comparison to the main character) character Hassan and how his traits compare to the primary character of Amir. In doing so the author highlights Amirs weaknesses in his life, developing the idea that forgiveness only comes to those who actively seek out reconciliation.

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He wanted to do something that would help him feel less guilty, he wanted to be good again and this is why this line was so significant to Amir when he heard it and it is important to people in general. No one wants to do something that they regret, no one wants to commit sins and be a bad person, but sometimes our situations that we are stuck in and immaturity make us do something that we regret, it makes us commit sins and sometimes we are the bad people even if we committed the action unintentionally or in anger and when we hear that line of “There is a way to be good again”, we feel like there is hope, there is a way to be good again and it begins to feel very significant to us. Once upon a time, when I was 10, I was with my best friend and we had a plan to go see a movie together. He told his family that he cannot go out with them because he had plans with me and so his family left to go out to eat, but my other friend, who hated my best friend, said if I go with him he will buy me free movie tickets. I ditched my best friend and went to see movie with other friend and I felt so

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Many people think that some actions can be forgiven and while others think it cannot. Forgiveness helps everybody feel light and get rid of hard feelings that haunt everybody. Forgiveness creates positive feeling in one’s mind. People who are close, hurt or betray an individual is difficult to forgive. This is prevalent in the story where in Amir and Hassan were best

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When Amir receives the letter from Rahim Kahn, not only does he realize that his father had done many positive contributions to the world in an attempt to redeem himself, but he learns that Baba had also been suffering from remorse. Although this is the case, Rahim Kahn concludes that “good, real good, was born out of your father’s remorse. Sometimes, I think everything he did, feeding the poor on the streets, building the orphanage, giving money to friends in need, it was all his way of redeeming himself. And that, I believe, is what true redemption is, Amir jan, when guilt leads to good”(Hosseini 302). Rahim Kahn believes that the good deeds that were committed by Baba were his attempted method of redemption, not only for the individuals who suffered from his sins but for himself.

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Hosseini portrays Amir’s quest for redemption beautifully throughout his life as an innocent teenager in the enthralling and serene city of Kabul to his life as a family man in The United States of America. Through Amir’s life, Hosseini clearly portrays the fact that all sins can be atoned however grave or futile they may be and by their atonement one can attain self-satisfaction and can be at peace. According to the Holy Bible, and the Old Testament, an act of committing a sin is that which “separates man from God himself” (Anonymous). Baba, Amir’s father believed that “there is only one sin, only one.

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However, he also turned out to be someone who tried his best to confront his sins and redeem them by building orphanages, fixing Hassan's harelip, and helping others in general (Li Cunxin, Levy98's Blog). Unlike Baba, Amir was afraid of confronting his sins. In the novel, Baba, with reference to Amir, says, "A boy won't stand up for himself becomes a man who can't stand up to anything" (page 22, chapter3) which foreshadows how Amir was unable to face his sin, unlike

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[Amir’s] new watch and a handful of Afghani bills under it” (104). After his original plan fails, Amir tries harder to dispose of Hassan by framing him for stealing from Amir. This contemptible action proves how far Amir is willing to go in order to push off his problems. When Hassan confesses to stealing from Amir, Baba responds calmly by saying, “I forgive you” (105). Baba forgives Hassan for committing the “one unforgivable sin” (106) because he loves Hassan and could not bear to send him and his “father” away.

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To undo this guilt he does different actions in the positive way that show how his actions are now used for positive good deeds. Amir grows to become someone willing to die for Sohrab and believes Sohrab to be a part of his family which is ironic because Hassan was never able to become a part of their family due to social pressures. After Amir recognizes that Hassan knew all along Amir has a bigger feeling of guilt which is only washed away through constant deeds. One service is when Amir places the crumpled money for a positive outcome rather than to chase someone out, “ Earlier that morning, when I was certain no one was looking, I did something I had done twenty-six years earlier: I planted a fistful of crumpled money under a mattress ( 242) ”. As Amir grows as a character after ridding himself of different guilts he develops and grows by changing different actions that he has committed in the past as a sin.

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Amir’s Redemption in The Kite Runner In The Kite Runner, Khalid Hosseini writes that Amir makes mistakes, and because of that, it takes his entire life to redeem himself. Throughout The Kite Runner, Amir is looking for redemption. One of the reasons why Amir redeems himself was to fix the wrong he did to Hassan in his childhood. On the other hand, many may believe that Amir didn’t earn anything and rather wasted his time in Afghanistan.

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To forgive himself, he tries to atone for all the sins he has committed. In Rahim’s letter Amir is told tat God forgives anyone who asks for it but it is the people who have a hard time forgiving others. Baba, Amir’s father, has also committed sins and done some bad deeds.

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Regardless of the motivation, it demonstrates a true humility and true repentance, not based on what he done but on what he was willing to do and eventually acted upon (Acts 26:20). He realizes he had no right to claim a blessing upon return to his father’s household, nor does he have anything to offer, except a life of service, in repentance of his previous actions. With that, he is prepared to fall at his father’s feet and hope for forgiveness and

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