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Mistakes In The Kite Runner By Khaled Hosseini

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Humans are born to make faults it is what defines character. Guilt and consequences go along side with making mistakes. If humans did not make errors, they would not be the people they are today. Mistakes help shape and teach valuable morals, how a person reacts to these shows how they admirable they truly are. In The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini, there are two groups of people, the Sunnis and the Shi’as. This division results in hatred between the two groups. A wealthy man named Baba lives with his son Amir and his servants: Ali, who is much like a brother to Baba, and his son Hassan. Ali and Hassan are Shi’as or Hazaras which causes them to be in a lower class system than Baba and Amir. After his father and Hassan’s deaths, Amir discovers he and Hassan share the same father, Baba, making them half brothers. Amir, learning they are brothers, changes how he sees the type of character his father was and the morals he carries. Although Baba seems a man of admirable morals who simply made one mistake, Ira Sher’s …show more content…

After uncovering the truth, Amir questions “How had Baba brought himself to look Ali in the eye? How had Ali lived in that house… knowing he had been dishonored by his master…” (Hosseini 225). Ali remains loyal to Baba though he betrays him in one of the worst ways an Afghani can be betrayed, this showcases the type morals Ali contains. The speaker in “The Man in the Well” states “I think its important that we decided not to help him. Everyone, like myself, was probably on the verge of fetching a rope... , but we looked around and it was decided” (Sher 116). The children in the story clearly know their actions are wrong, but due to their loyalty to each other they stay together. This evidence Sher provides shows how Ali’s loyalty to Baba overrides the wrongdoing Baba has done to Ali; he still considers him a person of high moral values despite his

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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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Hassan, on one hand, was brave and did not fear defending people he cared about, like when he, “held the slingshot pointed directly at Assef’s face,” (42) when the bully confronted Amir in an aggressive fashion. When the tables turned and Assef proceeded to rape Hassan, Amir proved to be cowardice by running away because, “[he] was afraid of Assef and what he would do to [him],” (77). Loyalty was also one of Hassan’s prominent qualities as shown when although, “[h]e knew [Amir had] seen everything in that alley,” he was willing to rescue Amir, “once again, maybe for the last time,” (105). Contrastingly, Amir not only betrayed Hassan but attempted to have him and his father dismissed from service by lifting, “Hassan’s mattress and [planting his] new watch and a handful of Afghani bills under it,” (104). Yet despite all this, the two boys still had a sincere love for one another, although it may have been temporarily painful.

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Amir’s mother died giving birth to him and Hassan’s mother ran away shortly after he was born. With Ali and Hassan being Hazarats or Shi’a Muslims they don’t have the same status as Amir and Baba being Sunni Muslims. Though Amir and Baba don’t mind it the neighborhood does, this tension occurs throughout the beginning of the story especially in one event the Kite tournament. This is when children fight with their kites and where they try and take out there opposing players kites. When the kite falls down, the person who ‘won’ it runs and get it.

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