I recently finished reading “The Kite Runner”, a bestseller novel by Khaled Hosseini. Amir’s emotional quest for redemption evolves when his best friend Hassan was raped by a neighborhood bully while Amir was a bystander. This experience made Amir feel guilty for a long time even after he migrated to USA. Years later, Amir returns to Afghanistan and learns that Hassan and his wife have been killed by the Taliban. He also learns that Hassan’s son, Sohrab, was taken hostage by the Taliban. To redeem himself from his past, Amir rescues Sohrab and later adopts him. The story was inspirational due to its powerful morals and plot. Reading this book was eye-opening because it made me realize that as much as we try, we can not run away from our past