The scene in which Baba was explaining to Amir his beliefs and what he considered as sins in Khaled Hosseini’s novel, The Kite Runner, is important because Hosseini uses it to establish the reasons why Baba and Amir’s actions throughout the novel contributed to the variety of ways they choose to follow their own beliefs. Throughout the novel there were numerous times were Baba’s beliefs effected Amir’s actions and fate. For instance, when Baba was correcting Amir about what he’d learned from his teachers in school. At that specific time in the novel Baba constantly fed different thoughts and guidelines to Amir defining ways in which he should live, but at the same time Baba was only following his own beliefs when they were convenient. Baba’s beliefs constantly influenced Amir’s actions and views through the novel. “There is only one sin only one. And that is theft. Every other sin is a variation of theft”. (Hosseini 17). At this exact moment the true character of Baba begins to show, but it was often overlooked with all the good Baba did to cover up his sins and bad he has done in life. Leaving Baba as one of the most influential figures in the novel and in …show more content…
During this moment Amir hoped for Hassan to finally be looked down upon by Baba instead of it always being him disappointing Baba. It really revealed how Amir tried to use Baba’s beliefs about theft being the worst sin to an advantage so that Hassan would be perceived as a thief to Baba. After finding out Baba had forgiven Hassan for what he considered the worst sin Amir became confused with Baba’s concept of a thief. “Hadn’t Baba sat me on his lap and said those words to me? Then how could he just forgive Hassan?” (Hosseini 106). Even though Amir and Hassan were the only ones that knew that Amir framed Hassan the truth about Amir true colors and guilt were beginning to