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Symbolism and redemption in the Kite runner
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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.
Baba’s betrayal makes both of Hassan and Amir’s respective loyalties and betrayals even more significant. Throughout the novel Baba never reveals to neither Hassan nor Amir that they are brothers, he also forces the ones close to him to lie to the boys so his secret would never come to light. Baba does not even admit his betrayal in his final moments of life, Amir only discovers this betrayal when he is an adult and goes to visit Rahim Khan (a close friend and business partner of Baba who knew of the betrayal). Once Amir arrives at Rahim Khan's apartment in Pakistan he tells Amir that Hassan, Hassan’s wife are dead and that their only son, Sohrab, was sent to an orphanage. Rahim Khan than asks Amir to go get Sohrab and bring him to Pakistan, Amir refuses and asks why they couldn't just pay someone to get Sohrab.
Also, Baba wasn’t the one that decided for Ali and Hassan to leave, it was Ali. Ali knew Amir’s motif and he understood and for that reason Ali decided it was time for he and Hassan to go. As the car pulls away it was the last time Baba would see Ali and Hassan ever again. Baba didn’t grasp why they were gone forever. He just lost his brother forever.
Amir returns to Kabul to find Sohrab, but is met by Assef, and is consequently beaten. This event absolves Amir of his guilt that stems from Hassan’s rape 26 years earlier, by liberating Sohrab from the grips the Taliban had on him. Other moments of crises: (Ch4) Baba is presented with Amir’s first short story and refuses to read it, though Rahim and Hassan enjoy it, encouraging him (Ch5) Assef threatens Amir and Hassan defends him. Amir is left fighting for his fathers affection when Baba gifts Hassan a plastic surgeon to fix his cleft lip.
Amir watched Hassan get raped and didn’t say a word about it, therefore, Amir feels partially responsible. Throughout The Kite Runner Amir moves on with his life until Rahim Khan calls. Rahim calls to ask Amir back to Kabul to retrieve Hassan’s long lost baby after Hassan’s death. “My suspicions had been right all those years. He knew about Assef, the kite, the money, the watch with the lightning bolt hands.
Due to Baba’s status as a prominent business man and figure in Afghanistan, he did not want people to know that he had relations with a Hazara and even managed to produce a child by her. Baba believed that this would have been devastating to Baba’s reputation and career, therefore he had Ali raise Hassan as if he was his own. Here
However, Amir’s selfish ambition of proving his worth to this dad resisted his urge to try to help Hassan as he wants to able to take the kite home safely. Moreover, Amir presumes that his betrayal towards Hassan is like a curse in his life since he will not be able to forgive himself for this deception or free himself from the guilt that has taken over his
He had to make his own life choices, and he was even married, a little before Baba died. Even though America grew on him, Amir still loved Afghanistan, his home country. His love for Hassan showed when he went back to wretched Afghanistan and he rescued Hassan’s son Sohrab, who was an orphan because Hassan and his wife were killed in Afghanistan. When he visited Afghanistan he drew up great valor and fought one of his enemies from when he was a kid. Although he suffered many, many injuries he still showed his love for a helpless, suffering kid.
Ali the Hazara was adopted by Baba’s father when Ali’s parents died. Because of this Ali and Baba grew up together like siblings. In a very similar circumstance, since Ali and Baba were already close, their kids Hassan and Amir also had the opportunity to grow up together. In both situations, Ali and Hassan remain humble as well as loyal to their counterparts, doing anything they ask or need. An important part of their relationships is the political situation in Afghanistan.
After both Amir and Baba had moved to America during the time skip that occurred during the joint in between chapter 10 and chapter 11, a noticeable change in the relationship between the two of them occurs. We see that the relationship is more stable and respectful compared to Amir and Baba’s relationship in Afghanistan when they had Hassan. In chapter 11, Baba acts respectfully toward Amir and supports him in his career and college which is a stark contrast to that of earlier chapters in which Baba views Amir’s interest in writing as strange. We see how Baba cares about what Amir feels like in America in this segment of the story as he directly notes how “Peshawar was good for me. Not good for you” (130), which this conversation demonstrates that Baba cares about Amir and is willing to make sacrifices for him.
Baba and Ali were inseparable so when they grew up Baba took Ali as his servant. Ali as well had a son named Hassan. Right after his birth Ali’s wife Sanaubar, ran away with dancing performers. Amir and Hassan became best friends till one day the dully Assef, raped Hassan and changed all their lives as well as the war that occurred in Afghanistan. Amir’s most significant redemption is when he saw Hassan was getting rape by Assef, and how he approaches the situation by trying to avoid Hassan to any circumstance.
He asks him to come to Pakistan. Amir decides to go because his father's friend has told him to put something straight. In addition, he has a boundless admiration for the man. In Pakistan, Khan tells what has happened in the meantime. He was living in Baba's house and had taken Hassan and Ali as servants.
Amir is informed that Baba was Hassan’s father too, and Amir agrees to go rescue Sohrab from the Orphanage. Once he arrives at the orphanage, he is told Sohrab is not there. The orphanage director says a Taliban official took Sohrab a month earlier. Amir is told to go to the soccer stadium during the game the next day if he wishes to find the official. One he arrives at the stadium a Taliban is seen on the field putting two people into holes in the ground.
was wealthy and respected. In California, he earns low wages working at a gas station. Amir makes a particularly ironic comment, remarking that some of the homes he sees make Baba’s house in Kabul look like a servant’s hut. In the past, Ali and Hassan were the servants, and Baba was the master. Now Baba is more like a servant himself.
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.
