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The Kite Runner Quotes Analysis

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When Amir, the son of a wealthy Afghan man, witnesses a terrible act committed against his childhood best friend, he spends the next 20 years of his life trying to redeem himself from the guilt that haunts him. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini is a book that revolves around the main character, Amir, and his life leading up to and after he witnessed his best friend, Hassan, get raped. Amir stood by and watched the bullies attack Hassan, but he did not dare to interfere for fear that he too would face the same fate. In this moment where Amir chose to be a coward, he made a decision that he would carry with him throughout the rest of his life. The theme that was most prevalent in The Kite Runner was redemption due to guilt. This is embodied …show more content…

Amir feels responsible for the death of his mother who died giving birth to him. Amir was nothing like his father, he instead was much like his mother. This leads to Amir and Baba having a strained relationship. On page 19 Amir said how “I always felt like Baba hated me a little. And why not? After all, I had killed his beloved wife, his beautiful princess, hadn’t I? The least I could do was to have the decency to have turned out a little more like him.” This quote really shows how Amir felt about his relationship with his father. He was just a little boy who wanted his father’s love and appreciation. When the annual kite tournament came around, Amir saw it as his chance to finally redeem himself to his father. He says “I was going to win, and I was going to run that last kite… show it to Baba… show him once and for all that his son was worthy” (Hosseini 56). This is when Amir finally realizes how he was going to redeem himself, he was going to win the kite competition. Amir’s character is defined by his guilt, the book starts off with him saying, “I became what I am today at the age of …show more content…

From the instant Amir failed to save his friend from being raped he became plagued with never-ending guilt. It became his ultimate and secret sin that he has carried with him since he was twelve years old. Right after Amir decided not to save Hassan, he says “Maybe Hassan was the price I had to pay, the lamb I had to slay, to win Baba.” (Hosseini 77). This ties into the previous paragraph talking about how Amir wanted to redeem himself to his father. Amir realized that everything has a price and how his guilt from not saving Hassan was the price he had to pay to finally redeem himself in his father’s eyes. It is twenty years later when one of Amir’s old business associates Rahim Khan contacts him and tells him “there is a way to be good again” (Hosseini 2). Amir now lives in America and is married but he is still suffering from his guilt. Rahim Khan gives Amir an opportunity to finally redeem himself and be free from his guilt. Amir goes to Pakistan and learns new things about Hassan, such as how they are brothers and how Hassan was killed. Rahim Khan tells Amir that Hassan had a son, Sohrab, and how he must go and save him from the orphanage. The ending scene of the book is a kite competition like when Amir and Hassan were kids, except now it was Amir

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The words are blunt, unapologetic in nature, resonating with so much truth that it pierces Amir’s false happiness (Hosseini 133). For Amir, the kite brought only a false sense of freedom from his remorse. In reality, he was still entrenched in the battle for his father’s love, still trying to find a way to get all of his father’s attention. The kite-flying competition was an illusion, a dream that Amir could ever be his father’s only son. The reality that Hassan was Amir’s half-brother, and the equitable love that Baba gives them, serves as the anchor that keeps Amir from his own childhood dreams, the truth that Amir could never escape.

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“For you a thousand times over” says Amir, to the son of his former servant, after he has redeemed himself for all of his actions. Amir is a man who finds courage through correcting his wrong doings by making new valuable decisions. Khaled Hosseini’s novel, The Kite Runner, expresses how lies can change someone’s life and how one man finds redemption through doing good. Upon doing good there are also many other ways that redemption must be found, taking on great responsibilities, fighting for what is right, and finding ways to become closer to God. Amir has found redemption through doing what is beneficial to others in his life.

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The author puts a lot of moral ambitious character in the story the Kite Runner. Amir is an example of a moral ambitious character. He is evil in the beginning of the story, but as he matures and grows up as an adult. The Kite Runner By Khaled Hosseini, is a novel about a young boy named Amir and how he grows up in the Afghan war and how life was during the war. Amir's Moral Ambiguity is important to this story because he provides readers to like and hate him.

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At this point in the novel Amir’s character is the complete opposite of when he was just a boy. Before, Amir would have run away, thinking only of himself. The new Amir however, stands up for Sohrab, without a single selfish thought. He bravely faces Assef, acting to help Sohrab, instead of being an unmoving bystander. Amir has gone from a weak-willed, jealous, and egotistical boy, to courageous and selfless

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In Khaled Hosseini’s novel, The Kite Runner, Amir struggles to cope with his inaction during Hassan’s rape. Overwhelmed with guilt, Amir devises a plan to get Hassan and Ali dismissed so they would no longer be a constant reminder of all the times Hassan had protected him and his failure to do the same. The guilt of betraying Hassan burdens him for years, and even after he and Baba move to America, he carries the weight of his actions with him. However, after he accepts Rahim Khan’s request to rescue Sohrab and bring him to safety, Amir strives to leave behind the selfishness and cowardice he had previously succumbed to. Amir progressively begins to forgive himself for his injustices towards Hassan as he recognizes his evolution from a coward

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However, Amir’s selfish ambition of proving his worth to this dad resisted his urge to try to help Hassan as he wants to able to take the kite home safely. Moreover, Amir presumes that his betrayal towards Hassan is like a curse in his life since he will not be able to forgive himself for this deception or free himself from the guilt that has taken over his

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Amir wants to find atonement, So he sacrifices much to achieve “Redemption”. Amir constantly tries to impress and redeem himself to his father, Baba. This is because he feels responsible for his mother's death during his birth. Amir supposes that to redeem himself, he must win the kite tournament. though competing in the kite tournament may cause more guilt.

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For example, Amir insists that Baba visits a “...radian oncologist to talk to Baba into getting radiation treatment” (161) after being diagnosed with a metastasized form of cancer. From this quote, Amir’s intent is to help Baba survive the cancer so he can live a longer lifespan. Even after refusing to undergo preventive medical procedures, Amir remains faithful to Baba and fulfills his commands until his death in Chapter 13. Sacrificing Hassan to gain Baba’s affection is another horrifically indicative yet illustrative precedent of Amir’s past, specifically in the quote, “Maybe Hassan was the price I had to pay, the lamb I had to slay, to win Baba” (77). To validate his reasoning for leaving Hassan, Amir uses self-deception into thinking that his relationship with Baba carried more value rather than a Hazara.

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After years of no contact, Amir receives a call from Rahim Khan summoning him to Peshawar with the claim that he can absolve his wrongdoings. He travels to Pakistan and Rahim reveals that Hassan has been killed and Amir must retrieve his son Sohrab from an orphanage in Afghanistan. Amir realizes that “He was gone now, but a little part of him lived on. It was in Kabul. Waiting” (227).

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One of the most noticeable conflicts that emerges in the early chapters seem to be almost mundane, but affects the overall characterization of both Amir and Baba. Amir is a young child, yearning for his father’s attention, his approval, his love. The conflict is one of both external and internal. It had gotten to the point where Amir went through with the kite flying with Hassan just to receive his father’s approbation.

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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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