What Is The Human Spirit In The Kite Runner

Everybody wants to live their own way and do as they please. But for Eli, from Night by Elie Wiesel, and Amir, from The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini, that wasn’t always a possibility. For a time in their lives, they both struggled and were forced under somebody else’s wing. Because of this, they learned what they were both capable of. Though their home countries may have ended in turmoil, Amir and Eli both had to be cogent, full of valor, and optimistic in order for their futures to later be under their own will. Night relates to the theme, the human spirit because it has to do with the Holocaust. Millions of people suffered and died because of Nazi ideas that Adolf Hitler spread through Europe. With all the death, the human spirit went away because there was less life. The Holocaust

With his mother dying at his birth, Amir spent his life trying to impress Baba, which he failed to do. But after time he acquired love for Hassan, Ali, and Rahim Khan, whether he would ever admit it or not. Amir did not protect Hassan once, and Amir was haunted for 25 years. One event caused suffering for so many years. Once Amir moved to America and Baba died, his love and dependence on Baba showed. He had to make his own life choices, and he was even married, a little before Baba died. Even though America grew on him, Amir still loved Afghanistan, his home country. His love for Hassan showed when he went back to wretched Afghanistan and he rescued Hassan’s son Sohrab, who was an orphan because Hassan and his wife were killed in Afghanistan. When he visited Afghanistan he drew up great valor and fought one of his enemies from when he was a kid. Although he suffered many, many injuries he still showed his love for a helpless, suffering kid. Human spirit acts were portrayed through Amir’s love and commitment to helping Sohrab, and it was a way of repaying Hassan for all his good