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Restorative Justice In The Kite Runner

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The Kite Runner & Themes of Restorative Justice
Have you ever had a referral? How about ISS or OSS? I bet you felt regretful didn't you, or even if you haven’t felt regretful there had to be a lot of consequences behind getting any of these disciplinaries. Have you ever heard of Restorative Justice? Well if not here's what in other words “RJ” means; a system of criminal justice that focuses on the rehabilitation of offenders through reconciliation with victims and the community at large. I am a student from Carolina High School and Academy our school wants to make it possible to incorporate “RJ” into our everyday discipline rules this meaning that we want to give students a second chance to talk about how they felt or why they felt a certain …show more content…

At the end of the book Sohrab tries to commit suicide due to the fact that there was a long process he had to go through in order to go to America with Amir and he feared that since it would take so long he wouldn't be able to go and would be sent back to an orphanage in Kabul which he feared heavily. After his suicide attempt Sohrab sat in the hospital for a few days to recover from his bruises. Amir attempted many times to make conversation with Sohrab but Sohrab would not seem to budge. After a few more attempts Sohrab finally explained to Amir that he was “tired” Amir thought Sohrab meant he was physically tired and suggested he get some rest, but then Sohrab went further to say he was not feeling restless physically he was “tired of everything” altogether (Hosseini, pg 307). I personally believe this is similar to RJ because Sohrab suffers from a pain he inflicted himself, kind of like he had to pay the price since he decided to try and commit suicide unaware that everything would be alright in the end. Since this book is centered around religiousness and things of that sort, I wanna go on to say since it was not verbally stated in the book I believe “Allah” forgives Sohrab for attempting suicide since theft is the only sin and Sohrab tried to rob himself of his own life which was given to him by the great

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