![]() ![]() Amir goes through many stages in his life, but he always seems to be redeeming himself for something. As an adult, he redeems his uncourageous past by setting it right with the help of some very close family members. Amir fails to stand up for himself and others, as a child. Finding Sohrab was Amir’s greatest accomplishment, it was the ultimate redemption for all the evil and unjust things that have haunted his past. In order for Amir to redeem his past with Hassan, he must go and find Sohrab, who is the ultimate symbol of redemption in Amir’s life. He states, “I have a way to make things right again”. Rahim Khan puts Amir up to the challenge of going to find Sohrab and giving him a proper home. Sohrab, who is Hassan’s son, has been taken by the Taliban as payment for the orphanage. The Taliban has taken over Afghanistan and they killed Hassan and his wife in cold blood. Hassan, who is dead now, has a son, but he is an orphan boy. Rahim Khan has known about the kite running competition for Amir’s entire life, and he has a way for him to try and set things right. Amir soon realizes that the main reason Rahim Khan asked him to visit was not to see him before he died, but because Rahim wants to help Amir succeed in reaching his final redemption. Although Rahim is dying, he asks Amir to come visit him in Afghanistan. ![]() Amir receives a phone call from his father’s old friend Rahim Khan. One thing Amir is deprived of in his life is the ability to have children.Īmir’s inability to have children could possibly be looked at as coincidental or symbolic to him making amends for his past mistakes and misgivings. Amir survived his childhood, made a good life for himself and marries a beautiful Afghan woman named Soraya. Things in Amir’s life have finally settled down, but now the past is brought back up he must go find redemption once more. When everything finally catches up with Amir, he is a grown man. Amir goes many years knowing this information but never tells anyone, but what goes around comes around. Amir watches Assef and his friends rape Hassan, but he does nothing to help his friend. Hassan’s final act of bravery results in his rape and Amir’s next big mistake. Amir is a very evil young boy and since Hassan would do anything for Amir, he refuses to hand the kite over to Assef. Assef and his two friends didn’t exactly want Hassan to bring the kite back to Amir. When Amir cut the last Kite down from the sky, Hassan decided to run it. Hassan will always have Amir’s back, until the day he dies he would do anything for him. Although Amir did win the competition, something went very wrong. He would win, and earn his dad’s unconditional love once and for all, but things are not always as they seem. The kit running competition was supposed to be the best day of Amir’s life. Amir makes a huge mistake one day by hurting Hassan and it takes a very long time for him to find a way to redeem himself. This is evident when he says, “For you a thousand times over”. Amir is never very nice to Hassan, but Hassan would never turn his back on Amir. Amir and Hassan are two inseparable children, but their relationship is unusual because Hassan is Amir’s servant. Although Amir impresses his father by winning the kite running competition, he ends the day by hurting his best friend in a terrible way and one day he will have to find a way to make up for it. Amir could never live up to Baba’s expectations of him and that is where the theme of redemption comes to play between these two characters. Amir sees Baba as a perfect father figure because everyone looks up to him. When the kite running competition comes around he takes this opportunity to prove to his father that he can be more of an “ideal” son to Baba, ultimately getting redemption for everything his father has not approved of. Since Amir feels his father does not love him, he thinks of ways to make things right with him.Īmir sees Baba as a perfect higher presence that he could never amount to. He does everything he can think of to try and make up for the mistakes he made in the past. When Amir is a child, he feels his father blames him for his mother’s death and cannot love him. That is why redemption is a huge underlining theme in The Kite Runner. Whether Amir is saying the wrong thing or hiding from a hurtful truth, he always finds new things he will have to redeem himself for. Throughout all stages of Amir’s life, he is striving for redemption. What he struggles with throughout the novel is finding redemption for those mistakes. The main character of The Kite Runner, Amir, knows a thing or two about making mistakes. It is only natural for humans to make mistakes, just like Amir in the novel The Kite Runner, but it is how the mistakes are resolved that will dictate ones fate. ![]()
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