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Kite Runner Betrayal

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In Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner, Amir learns that betrayal, a form of sin, towards a friend will leave him guilty, but if a friendship is true there is hope in redemption. Amir recalls an incident that happens 26 years ago, leaving him with a quest to redeem himself. The memory starts in Kabul, where Amir lives with his father, Baba, and his two servants, Hassan and Ali. Hassan is very loyal towards Amir. His love for him as a friend is selfless, leaving the two inseparable. When winter arrives, Amir and Hassan participate in the kite flying tournaments; a tournament where boys compete against each other, using glass covered strings to cut eachothers lines. Once a line is cut, the winning team runs after the kite to redeem it as their …show more content…

Amir and Baba struggle to escape to Pakistan where it is safer and eventually move themselves to America. As Amir finishes college,strives in his writing career, and even gets married, somewhere deep-down he still feels the guilt from the betrayal towards Hassan. One day, Amir gets a call from Rahim Kahn, Baba’s close friend, who still lives in Pakistan. He insists that Amir comes back and visit him because of his poor health and he accepts. After a week,. Amir makes it to Pakistan and hears some news from Rahim Kahn. Hassan is dead. Amir, who is devastated, asks how. Rahim Kahn says that the Taliban shot both Hassan and his wife and sent his son, Sohrab, to an orphanage in Kabul. Rahim Kahn insists that Amir receives Sohrab from the orphanage. Amir almost declines until Rahim tells him that -- Hassan is his brother. “ There is a way to be good again, he’d said. / With a little boy. An orphan. Hassan’s son” (Hosseini 226-7). Amir makes it to Kabul and finds the orphanage, but the owner says that Sohrab was taken by a Taliban official. Amir searches for the official and eventually is able to meet with him, finding out that he is Assef or the man who raped Hassan. Assef says he has some unfinished business with Amir and starts beating him to the point there he breaks Amir’s rib and rips his lip. Sohrab uses a slingshot (which was something Hassan was known for) to shoot Assef in the eye socket with , giving the two time to

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In the process, Amir is badly beaten. He probably would have died if not saved by Sohrab, who shoots Assef in the eye with his slingshot. That day in Assef’s house made Sohrab begin to trust Amir. He promises Sohrab that he will never go back to an orphanage. They get to know and trust each other better, and Amir plans on adopting Sohrab and taking him to back to America.

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Baba had another son, that had died not too long before Amir had arrived in Pakistan. In fact, he had spent his childhood playing with this boy. His name was Hassan. He was murdered by the government for staying in a upper-class house.

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“For you a thousand times over” says Amir, to the son of his former servant, after he has redeemed himself for all of his actions. Amir is a man who finds courage through correcting his wrong doings by making new valuable decisions. Khaled Hosseini’s novel, The Kite Runner, expresses how lies can change someone’s life and how one man finds redemption through doing good. Upon doing good there are also many other ways that redemption must be found, taking on great responsibilities, fighting for what is right, and finding ways to become closer to God. Amir has found redemption through doing what is beneficial to others in his life.

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He also learns that Hassan has a son named Sohrab, who is in a lot of danger in an orphanage in Kabul. Amir feels that he should take on the responsibility to get Sohrab because of what he did to Hassan in their past. Baba once said “A boy who won’t stand up for himself becomes a man who can’t stand up to anything.” (Hosseini 78 ) Amir really took that to heart and not only wanted to prove his redemption to himself but also to

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Hassan ends up being trapped and raped in the alleyway with Amir watching. Amir could have intervened but did not. This leads to Amir hating Hassan because he did not know how to handle his guilt. Amir and his father travel to America where his father eventually dies and Amir grows up. Years later Amir goes back to Kabul

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