Mistakes In The Kite Runner By Khaled Hosseini

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

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