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Maydelssohn.perez Atonement can take a lot of working to do depending the situation. In the kite runner a boy named Amir in afghanistan and was bestfriends with his servant. In the beginning of the story amir witnesses hassan,Amir's best friend, get raped by the neighborhood bullys.Come to find out later in the story Amir's father slept with the servants wife so hassan is amir's brother. Amir is atoning for his huge mistake is he is putting his fear aside to save sohrab.Some argue amir is not atoning because he didn't want to take in sohrab. While others say he is cannot atone for watching Hassan get raped because friends don't do that to one another. Ultimately, Amir atones because he is stepping out his comfort zone to make up for his mistakes. …show more content…

Afghanistan is a state that they being controlled by the taliban.The taliban has very strict laws and if they are not followed there can be serious consequences, including death! Amir was told to come back to afghanistan because Raheim khan, his father's friend, was dying and needed someone to take Hassan's son back to united states. Amir immediately did not want to do it because he knew he was taking a risk because he was disobeying the taliban. Amir says, “why me?why can't you pay someone here to go? 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

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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.

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Amir makes hassan look like a thief by “planting [his] new watch and a handful of Afghani bills under [the mattress]” (Hosseini 104). Hassan knew of Amirs intentions that Amir wanted him to leave so Hassan lies and says that he stole it in order to remain loyal with his friend Amir. Thus, Hassan and his father Ali, feel like they can no longer serve Baba or Amir anymore and leave forever; Amir never sees him again. It was then that Amir realized how much of a horrible person he was and how undeserving he was to have Hassan. His father realized it was him and forgave him even though his father said “theft is unforgivable.”

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The novel, The Kite Runner, tells a story about two incredibly strong and courageous boys, who have to find their way back from a dreadful thing which they thought they could never forget. The two boys are guided by their father, Baba, who is also looking for forgivness in himself. In the end, all of the boys find redemption for their wrongdoings. One of the boys, Hassan, shows extreme courage from the very beginning of the book.

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In his novel The Kite Runner author, Khaled Hosseini uses the actions of main character Amir to demonstrate that when man betrays one another, he seeks redemption from his guilt, and once redemption is found, he feels at

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Javed 1 Sumaiya Javed Ms.Dhaliwal ENG 3U0 29th, October 2014 Jealousy Is a Disease Sometimes people cannot control the way they feel about certain people. No matter how many times they try to suppress their inner feeling eventually their true feelings begin to show. In Khaled Hosseini’s "The Kite Runner” the metaphor jealousy is a disease with no cure can act as a representation for Amir's relationship with Hassan, because as time goes by the disease escalates and it becomes beyond one’s control to remedy it. This metaphor represents Amir's jealousy towards Hassan because Baba treats him the same as Amir, he receives sympathy from Baba, and he receives unconditional love from Ali.

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Amir’s guilt is expressed through his envisioning of Rahim’s body language. Amir knows that he can make things right if he goes back to Afghanistan, so he naturally finds importance in Rahim’s passing remark. Amir is not totally sure that he wants to return to Afghanistan at first, but he is eventually assured by a dream that comes to him. While laying in bed, Amir dreams of a memory of Hassan - “He was yelling over his shoulder: For you, a thousand times over!”

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As Amir was on the phone explaining his story to Soraya he is able to reach a second step of atonement as he starts to redeem his guilt by letting go. His final redemption is seen as he takes Sohrab to America he is at peace. Through taking care of Sohrab Amir grows the most as a character and through reaching redemption he also is able to grow. While spending his life with Sohrab he repays Sohrab everyday by becoming more servant-like, loyal, and persistent waiting for him to open up. In the final chapter, Amir is seen waiting on the child like Hassan, which is ironic because the roles have switched and this shows how Amir has finally let go of his

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In the novel Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini tragically displays betrayal from a so called friend. In the beginning, Amir and Hassan were the best of friends and did everything together. But things turned out for the worst for Amir and he betrayed Hassan to get Baba’s affection. Amir redeemed himself of his horrible past by taking in Hassan’s son, so he can have a future sin free. Hosseini portrays that the guilt does eat a person up, and that Amir couldn’t stand the guilt but was too late to fix his horrible deed.

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He would do anything for Hassan to make up for his childhood. After finding Sohrab, Amir comes face to face with Assef, Hassan 's rapist. “Another rib snapped, this time lower. 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 hidden nook in the corner of my mind, I’d even been looking forward to this…

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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.

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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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It might be thought that Amir did not revert his wrong to Hassan and did not redeem himself. Amir was able to do this in various ways throughout the book, especially towards the end. The Kite Runner by Khalid Hosseini shows that Amir is able to redeem himself from the wrong he did to Hassan by putting himself in danger to rescue Sohrab, by receiving a scar from the fight with Assef signifying his redemption, and finally by bringing Sohrab back to United States with him. Amir is able to redeem himself by putting his life in danger to rescue Sohrab.

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It helps one to redeem and forgive oneself for all the sins committed in life. This paper will prove that atonement of past sins is possible by using ‘The Kite Runner’ as the primary source and several secondary sources. Amir is one of the main characters of the novel and has committed many sins during his childhood. Unable to forgive himself he goes back to Afghanistan to make things right and become good again.

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