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The Kite Runner Important Quotes

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A main thing that is constant throughout the book is that, due to Amir not being able to get over his past, now that he’s older he's dealing with the persistence of his past. Amir feels a lot a guilt throughout his whole life and can’t get over the situations he had gotten himself into and tried getting “out of” even though when he did he felt even worse. His older self is still cautious about the situations as if it had just happened just yesterday. You know this is true because in the book on page 1, 2nd sentence it quotes “it's wrong what they say about the past, I've learned, about how you can bury it. Because the past claws its way out. Looking back now, I realize I have been peeking into that deserted alley for the last twenty-six years.” (“Full text of "The Kite Runner PDF"”) In this quote the sentence “Because the past claws its way out” means like no matter …show more content…

This conflict is a little of both because what happened previously with Hassan getting raped was external, but now that Amir wants redemption its more internal cause hes dealing with his emotions and the little voices in his head.Amir wants to find a way to stop feeling guilty. Once Amir got the call from rahim Khan and he said “theres a way to be good again” Amir knew this was his opportunity to gain redemption and get over what happened in his past, just Amir doesn’t quiet know what hes getting himself into.This passage is significant in the novel because its the part where finally even after so many year Amir is finally gonna get over what happened plenty of years ago, because he knows its the right thing to do. This part of the book is the 2nd part where Amir takes a big step in his life and his life starts changing for

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Amir witnessed a lot of bad things around him, but kept pushing to better himself. “I don't believe the world's a particularly beautiful place, but I do believe in redemption” (Colum McCann). Seeing hard things around your life often is tough to overcome, but Amir had to overcome these issues to find his redemption. In the end, he found redemption through the toughest of circumstances around him.

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It raises the question of: Why is Hassan so Loyal and brave after all the pain Amir’s cowardliness has caused him? The author uses this scene to juxtapose Amir’s cowardliness with Hassan’s bravery. Hassan’s bravery could be unexpected due to the fact that he has been treated like less of a person because he was a Hazara. This mistreatment could cause people to feel insecure and insignificant, but Hassan overcame the mistreatment and became a loyal and brave person, son and friend.

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This guilt haunts Amir throughout the entirety of the novel as an obstacle that he constantly tries to overcome as shown when he finds out the truth and says, “I felt like a man who awakens in his own house and finds all the furniture rearranged , so that every familiar nook and cranny looks foreign now. Disoriented, he has to reevaluate his surroundings, reorient himself,” (Hosseini 224). This is the beginning of Amir finding out who he was as a person,and it is a big step to finding his own identity. When Amir finds out it seems as if “every familiar nook and cranny looks foreign” because what he has always used to defend himself was that Hassan was just a servant, but now he was his brother. Amir’s selfishness soon turns unjustifiable and as he now feels that it is time to finally get over his guilt and “reorient himself.”

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The author provides the reader with mixed feeling about Amir. In his childhood in Kabul Amir comes off as heartless person. He is this because he has done evil stuff in his life. In the beginning of the story something bad happens to Hassan, Amir says,¨In the end, I ran.

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The novel, The Kite Runner, tells a story about two incredibly strong and courageous boys, who have to find their way back from a dreadful thing which they thought they could never forget. The two boys are guided by their father, Baba, who is also looking for forgivness in himself. In the end, all of the boys find redemption for their wrongdoings. One of the boys, Hassan, shows extreme courage from the very beginning of the book.

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Amir starts off as a cowardly character, but his desire to achieve redemption from his past sins pushes him to perform acts that require tremendous amount of courage. Amir’s sin is when he betrayed his loyal friend Hassan. Amir witnessed Assef sexually assaulting Hassan, yet offered no assistance due to the fear of what may occur to him if he interfered. Amir’s failure to gather up courage in this situation forced him to commit a series of horrible acts that is the opposite of what he truly desires to do to escape the guilt that is taking over him. The guilt that Amir felt ,will continue to haunt him throughout his life until Rahim Khan said “There is a way to be good again”.

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The author had us view Amir as selfish, guilty, and then working towards forgiveness. These characteristics help us to better understand the overall theme of the novel. They showtime stages that one goes through when they are on a path toward forgiveness. The themes of betrayal, guilt, and forgiveness all appear in this novel and are able to be seen clearly through the feelings and actions of

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Amir put his own feelings over Hassan’s, when Hassan needed a friend most, Amir wasn’t there for him. His one true friend, the person he grew up with, his brother, who he loved so dearly, was now suddenly pushing him away, just because he felt guilty. If Amir

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I feel like this is a way for Amir to reflect and make the right decision where in the past he just watched Hassan get raped. In the future he is able to save Sohrab and get him out of such a bad situation. In a way I feel like by the end he gets what he wants. He not only becomes good again but he also gets to have the child that he and his wife Soroya couldn’t have and make everything up to Hassan. He can be a good father to Sohrab an opportunity that they would not have gotten if he did not go back to Afghanistan to get him due to the fact that Soroya could not have children.

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The past is always with Amir, That’s because Amir identifies himself by his past. The guilt of his past actions continues to drive him. It was a decent way of redemption, But “A person who keeps blaming himself has a pure clean soul”. Amir surprisingly feels responsible for the Taliban murdering Hassan. he believes when he drove Hassan and Ali out of Baba’s house, that was the reason that Hassan dies.

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Although, Amir shows many acts of kindness and selflessness, in the end, he was not able to truly redeem himself. To begin, Amir started his journey to redemption with conviction and confession although he was not very successful. The guilt bothered Amir very often even in his adulthood when he believed he had been denied “fatherhood for the thing [he] had done.” (188) Almost immediately after Amir watched Hassan get raped he believed he had done something wrong. He believed he could not have children with Soraya because he did not help Hassan, but he does not confess until more than fifteen years later.

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For so many years, Amir has been carrying this built up guilt of deception. It must have been suffocating for him to not be able to tell anyone about what he’s done to Hassan. It must’ve been devastating to know that there’s nothing he could do to fix what he’s done. But when Rahim Khan called one day and told Amir there was a way he could right his wrong, he took his first breath, knowing that he would redeem himself from guilt and

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Author, Khaled Hosseini has introduced us to many characters throughout the first two sections of the book. So far, we have discovered the protagonist, antagonist, the dynamic, static, round, and flat character of the novel. During the first section, it was hard to get an understanding of some of the character traits because they changed so drastically, however, entering the second part of the book, you got to develop and understand certain characters more better than in the first. Amir is the protagonist of the story, even though we don’t see that near the end of the first part.

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Hassan’s rape is the first great piece of conflict which appears in the novel, and the most important piece of irony as well, with important recurring consequences throughout the story. First and foremost, the event of Hassan’s rape, negatively affects the relationship Amir and Hassan have, due to Amir’s cowardness and Hassan’s awareness of what he did, making them start to drift apart. “Hassan kept trying to rekindle things between [them],” however, Amir pushes him further away at every attempt, from the torturing guilt of what he has done. Amir feels “sorry” for his cowardly reaction at seeing Hassan’s sexual abuse, and only wishes to be freed from his guilt. In spite of this, he does not receive his awaited ‘trial’, as Hassan’s loyalty surpasses

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To undo this guilt he does different actions in the positive way that show how his actions are now used for positive good deeds. Amir grows to become someone willing to die for Sohrab and believes Sohrab to be a part of his family which is ironic because Hassan was never able to become a part of their family due to social pressures. After Amir recognizes that Hassan knew all along Amir has a bigger feeling of guilt which is only washed away through constant deeds. One service is when Amir places the crumpled money for a positive outcome rather than to chase someone out, “ Earlier that morning, when I was certain no one was looking, I did something I had done twenty-six years earlier: I planted a fistful of crumpled money under a mattress ( 242) ”. As Amir grows as a character after ridding himself of different guilts he develops and grows by changing different actions that he has committed in the past as a sin.

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