The Kite Runner Redemption

What is the worst thing you start through with(p) to a wiz or family member? Have you be to them? Stolen from them? after(prenominal) the dreadful deed, did they forgive you? More importantly, did you forgive yourself? Regret and repurchase are rattling important themes in the book The Kite Runner. Having sorrowfulness for well-nighthing can affect your whole life, as seen with the character, amir. Through the development of ameer and his childhood friend, Hassan, amir has to live with his regret and hope for salvation for the outride of his life. From the beginning of the story The Kite Runner, it is apparent that amir did something wrong from the very first page.Amir says, Standing in the kitchen with the receiver to my ear, I knew it wasnt just Rahim Khan on the line. It was my past of unat iodined sins. (1). The reader understands that Amir had done something wrong in the winter of 1975. Later, we figure out what this something was he watched Hassan puzzle raped. It was after Amir had just won his kite race and Hassan had gone(p) to fetch the winning kite. He then came across the bullies of the neighborhood Assef, Kamal, and Wali. Assef act to take the kite, but like a loyal friend, Hassan would not allow him.Assef then let Hassan keep the kite, but only to pay the outlay of existence raped. Amir stood behind a wall and watched it all pass off without saying one word. This is probably one of the to the highest degree important scenes in the whole book Amirs actions from this shaped how he grew up and lived the rest of his life with regret. After Amir watched Hassan get raped, nothing was the same. He was filled with guilt trip and regret. He felt like a coward. I ran because I was a coward. I was afraid of Assef and what he would do to me. I was afraid of getting hurt. (77).He could not turn and help his friend because he was scared, and he wanted the approval of his father for once he thought bringing home the kite would win Baba over . Little did he know that he ruined the rest of his life by doing this. Amir was filled with such regret that he had to get rid of Hassan one way or another. He could not stand the secret that he had from that night and wanted the pain to go away. Amir changed his and Hassans kin that night. Even after Amir framed Hassan and got him to leave, Amirs guilt did not go away and he was forever regretting all the decisions he had been making up to this point.Amir and Baba ended up going to the States to try to get away from their past and get the redemption they two were longing for. After living life in America, Amir stock a phone call from his old friend, Rahim Khan. Rahim Khan had been looking for some redemption of his own because he had been keeping a secret from Amir his whole life Hassan was actually Babas son and Amirs half brother. Hassan had died and Rahim wanted Amir to retrieve Hassans son, Sohrab. Amir serene carried around the guilt from the winter of 1975 and decided thi s was his chance to redeem himself.As Rahim Khan said, There was a way to be good again. (2). This was Amirs way to be good again. Amir had been looking for redemption his whole life. Retrieving Sohrab would rid himself of this. Amir also outstepped his coward personality when he was face up to a battle with Assef. This part of the book was one of the other most important scenes. Amir came out with Sohrab and he finally got the redemption that he was seeking for since the day he watched Hassan get raped. Throughout the book on that point were many examples of redemption.It mostly occurred in Amir as we saw his kin with Hassan grow throughout the book. Amir had such guilt that he had to pound Hassan away this proved how much of a coward he really was. After that day, he always carried around the guilt of betraying his friend and finally exculpated himself by finding his redemption when retrieving Sohrab. Even though his decision of being a coward affected his life miserably, it still shaped him into the man that he was at the end of the book. Hosseini, Khaled. The Kite Runner. New York Riverhead Books, 2003.