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    Do you have a kite project on The Kite Runner due soon? If so you have come to the right place to get your kite on the themes of guilt and redemption. My kite is perfect to either fly outside on a nice windy day, or to use for a project for school. I chose the theme of guilt, because it is a major plot line of the book as it changes the story once it first started. Guilt was shown in the story, when Amir let Hassan get abused by Assef in the alley, aswell as well as throwing pomegranates at Hassan

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    Guilt and Redemption are two different words with extremely powerful meanings, guilt: the knowledge of committing a wrongdoing, and redemption: the action of compensating for your mistakes. The Kite Runner is a novel based on a pre-revolutionary Afghanistan and takes place the city Kabul. However the lives of all Afghani’s begins to change after their king is overthrown while on vacation. Khaled Hosseini’s novel is a unique representation of guilt and redemption which is expressed various times

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    True redemption is the ability of a person to entirely forgive oneself after doing an unethical or immoral deed. Some think true redemption is reachable, others do not. In the novel, “The Kite Runner”, author Khaled Hosseini makes it apparent that he believes redemption is achievable. The main character’s actions show the determination of a man that wants to make up for all of the horrible things he did as a child. Amir made many bad decisions during his childhood that brought great amounts of grief

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    the price I had to pay, the lamb I had to slay, to win Baba.” (Hosseini, 77) Nobody would ever believe that something innocent as kite flying or kite running could lead into an epic tale of betrayal and redemption, however Hosseini, in his novel The Kite Runner, manages to weld this activity with the journey that a man has to make from his betrayer to his redemption. Though Amir is the protagonist in this novel and we’re supposed to want him to come through as victorious, it’s hard with a character

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    It is in human’s nature to make mistakes, but what is important is how we solve those mistakes. The novel The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini explores the theme of redemption. Khaled Hosseini conveys the theme of redemption through the character by when sins are made redemption can be found. This is first demonstrated when Amir betrays Hassan by not standing up for him when he was getting raped but later makes peace with Hassan. Secondly, when Baba cannot accept Amir for who he is, later he then redeems

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    The Kite Runner Many themes were mentioned in the Kite Runner, but the ones that reflect the life of Amir is betrayal and redemption, the immigrant experience and love. Other themes that were mentioned were forgiveness and social class and ethnic tensions. Betrayal and redemption reflected Amir’s life in many ways. Betrayal can be considered a form of sin , it ends up being the cyclical in the novel. Throughout most of the Kite Runner, the novel Amir tries to deal with his guilt by avoiding it and

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    Kite Runner is a novel written by author Khaled Hosseini. The setting takes place in multiple cities and countries such as California, America specifically Fremont, but the main story is in Kabul, Afghanistan in 1975 through 2001. The story is about the protagonist and the narrator of the story Amir. Amir is a wealthy Pashtun boy who grows up in Kabul along with his father Baba. When Amir is nearly 12 years old along with his friend Hassan they spend their days trying to win the prizes in the tournament

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    The well-known rapper, Ice T. once said, “Redemption just means you just make a change in your life and you try to do right, versus what you were doing, which was wrong.” In his book, The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini writes a story about a friendship between two Afghan boys, Amir and Hassan, and how an act of disloyalty affected their lives. Amir struggles with the disappointment of his father, Baba. When the opportunity arrived for him to make Baba proud, it came with a price. When Hassan was being

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    In the literary novel, The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini, the kite is a driving force throughout the novel. The kite is an important symbol seen throughout the novel, hence the name of the novel, and is a driving force in the events which occur in the novel. The kite represents guilt and redemption, where it is seen at the beginning, and at the end of the novel. Many of the characters in the novel are brought together by the kite, and are able to make connections with one another. Challenges presented

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    deception and atonement. “The Kite Runner” is considered to be Khaled Hosseini finest novel. It is cleverly narrated through Amir eyes, as he tells the the journey of his past, escaping from his taunted childhood while torturing himself with his own remorse. Disloyalty and redemption play a decisive role throughout the novel to highlight key ideas and further our understanding of the novel as a whole. The main theme highlighted by the novel is that of disloyalty and redemption, which revolves around Amir’s

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