The Kite Runner Redemption Quotes

The Kite Runner is a novel of love, struggle, and most importantly, redemption. The main character, Amir, is haunted throughout adulthood by transgressions of his childhood and finds himself in a journey for redemption that nearly costs him his life. By the end of the novel, Amir has grown into a respectable man through the criticism from his father, Rahim Khan’s dying confessions and influence upon him, and his own conscience choice to change who he was. Up until this point he acted as a coward in every sense of the word. The most glaring example of this was when he didn’t stand up for his closest friend and half-brother, Hassan, when he was being raped. Other small acts, such as acting cruelly toward Hassan out of spite when no one was around

One of the first instances Amir recounts of overhearing his father discussing him was, “A boy who won’t stand up for himself becomes a man who can’t stand up to anything” (Hosseini 22). This quote reappeared when Amir was struggling with if he should undertake the task Rahim Kahn was asking of him, to go and save his newfound nephew’s life. Luckily, over the years of swallowing constant criticism and disappointment from his father, Amir has grown into a man who knows when he needs to stand up despite his corrupt sense of bravery as a

His first knee-jerk reaction was to demand to Rahim Khan that someone else do it, even offering to pay for it. Rahim Khan stops him in his tracks by shouting, “It has never been about money with me, you know that. And why you? I think we both know why it has to be you, don’t we?” (Hosseini 221). Even now, after all of this time and enduring through his guilt, Amir still wasn’t sure what man he wanted to be when given the clear choice between a coward and a hero. Instead, Rahim Khan had to almost force the specific events of his past into his face to remind him what type of person he would be if he failed to