Amir's Flaws In The Kite Runner

The character of Amir goes through drastic changes as he moves from adolescence to adulthood. As a child Amir begins his life in Kabul, where his character is shaped through conflicts with his father and Hassan. Later, when he moves to America he leaves these conflicts behind and is able to create a stronger relationship with his father. However, when Amir is an adult he is called back to Afghanistan by an old friend to confront these earlier conflicts. In The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini, observable changes can be seen in Amir’s character as he moves from Kabul, Fremont, and later back to Kabul.

Hosseini shows that it is Amirs immense guilt that drives him to want to make things right and to earn redemption. We learn the basis Amir's guilt through his memories. It is caused by a lack of response at a time when his loyal servant and close friend Hassan is in trouble. Amir makes a conscious decision to hide in the distance and just watch, not because he was afraid. He sacrifices Hassan in order to earn his fathers attention and affection. This decision results in Hassan suffering though a traumatic experience and is the root of Amir's lasting regret.

Born in Kabul, Afghanistan, Amir was the son of a wealthy social worker. He was brought up with the son of his servant, and perhaps his only best friend, Hassan. Amir had a rocky relation with his father. At times, it seemed as his father loved him but those moments didn’t lasted forever. He thinks Baba (his father) wishes Amir were more like him, and that Baba holds him responsible for killing his mother, who died during his birth. Despite being best friends, Amir thinks that Hassan is beneath him because he belonged to an inferior cast. He used to mock him jokingly or tried to outsmart him. In all fairness, it was Amir’s cowardly nature that

The guilt that Amir feels due to his destroyed relationship with Hassan haunts him throughout his entire life. First, Hosseini uses the scene of Hassan’s rape as a haunting source of

The story becomes centered on Amir’s quest for redemption as his cowardly instincts restrain him from preventing the rape of Hassan. However, redemption has actually been a big portion of Amir’s life as even as a child he had trying to make Baba, his father, proud as an attempt to redeem himself because Amir believes he is completely responsible for the death of his mother, as she died during his birth. This leads to Amir trying to win the local kite tournament, which results in Amir watching Hassan getting raped because Amir wants to ensure that he can show the last kite that he beat in the tournament to make Baba proud. This moment imposes a ton of guilt on Amir, which sparks his quest to redeem himself. Hosseini

He was actually embarrassed by his friend. Amir might have adored Hassan deep inside, but the fact that he would think these horrible things about his closest friend just shows how judgemental he is as a friend. Second, Hassan is the character that Hosseini shows true friendship through. He is the complete opposite of Amir–though he accepts all the wrongdoings Amir has done. According to the book, when Hassan was about to run off to get the kite for Amir, he said: “For you, a thousand times over”.

One phrase Hosseini used that really stuck out to me was “My hands are stained with Hassan’s blood; I pray God doesn’t let them get stained with the blood of his boy too” (Hosseini 346). While reading the novel I found the connotative meaning to be very clear and easy to see that Amir is very submerged with guilt as of what happened to Hassan, but now the occurrences are happening again with Hassan’s son, Sohrab. Amir finally comprehends that he is forever Obligated to Hassan. It was because of Hassan that Amir learned true loyalty and friendship. Because of this Amir thinks he is the one who needs to be the hero and save Sohrab from his terrible situation. When a bad incident happens Amir prays to god for direction in what to do so he doesn’t

The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini takes place in the 1970s in Kabul, Afghanistan, when the country is in a time of an ending monarchy. The novel depicts the story of Amir, a boy living in Afghanistan, and his journey as he matures throughout life. Amir is the son of wealthy Afghanistan man, Baba, and his play mate, Hassan, the son of Baba’s servants son Ali. Hassan is a Hazara and Amir is a Pashtun, making them from different social classes. Hazara’s are the lowest on the social scale, making Hassan and Amir very different.

However, Amir's condescending trait could be the result of his emptiness inside, due to the lack of love and affection from his father. He yearns for his father's affection, he makes himself superior to others, mostly Hassan, and he constantly tries anything he can in order to get his father to show the least bit of interest in him. We see how hurt Amir is when his father pays more attention to Hassan than him when he says, "I wished I too had some kind of scar that would beget Baba's sympathy...Hassan hasn't done anything to earn Baba's affections..." (Hosseini 46) Although Amir possess these negative traits, he is not an awful person. He is also guilt-ridden and as the author portrayed, he has been so since birth. His mother died giving birth to him and he always felt at fault for it. Her death was the reason he thought his father hated him as he states by saying, "I always felt like Babe hated me a little.

The main character is Amir in the story The Kite Runner. Amir has a servant named Hassan. Hassan really cares about Amir and treats him like a brother throughout the book. Meanwhile, Amir treats him really badly but thinks he treats him like a friend. Hassan and Amir used to climb the poplar tress when they were children.

Amir had great influences on him as a child; Baba was a brave person, generous to everyone, and should’ve influenced Amir to be the same. On the contrary, Amir was selfish and chose not to stand up for his friend, even when the situation desperately needs it. This is not because of how he grew up, of his environment. Amir’s genetics made him to be fearful and mean, as shown throughout the book. “I knew I was being cruel, like when I’d taunt him if he didn’t know some big word. But there was something fascinating - albeit in a sick way - about teasing Hassan.” (Hosseini 54). Even though Amir had great influences growing up, Hassan took the brunt of his attacks and neglect. Near the beginning of the book, Hassan is raped in the alleys running a kite for Amir. Going after Hassan, Amir finds Hassan while this is going on but does not stop the rapist or stand up for his friend. Instead, Amir ran away and proceeded to abandon Hassan emotionally after the event. Baba was a brave man and would’ve stood up for Hassan, regardless of the danger to him, but Amir was not influenced nearly as much by his positive environment rather than his negative cowardice, or

The Kite Runner, a novel written by Khaled Hosseini, focuses on Amir’s journey in life, both physically and emotionally. During Amir’s childhood Afghanistan became very unsafe. He and his father, Baba, fled from the city of Kabul to Pakistan and then made their way to America in hope of a better life for Amir. "For me, America was a place to bury my memories. For Baba, it was a place to mourn his." The need for Amir to "become good again" is embedded in the idea of a physical for redemption of his dignity.

Hosseini conveys the turning point when Amir gets on the right path to learning and understanding the true nature of sacrifice by attempting to redeem himself. Amir plants money and his new watch that he got for his birthday under Hassan's bed to make it look like Hassan stole it. Baba brings Ali, Hassan and Amir together and Amir explains that “They’d both been crying; [He] could tell from their red, puffed-up eyes...they stood before Baba, hand in hand, and [he] wondered how and when [he’d] become capable of causing this kind of pain” (105). Hosseini uses this scene to demonstrate the true colors of Amir that he is a liar. This scene also highlights the loyalty that Hassan has towards Amir and his family and but it is not the same from Amir to Hassan. This illuminates Hassan’s loyalty most more than other scenes because as you can tell Baba and Ali were very surprised about what (they thought) Hassan had done because nothing like this has ever happened before. This explains one of the many sins that Amir has and reveals the lying and

As much as the book showed growth within Amir and how he realized his mistakes, he primarily disregards Hassan as a friend because he put Baba’s love in front of the relationship and always took into consideration his race and his social class. While Hosseini writes about Amir fulfilling his destiny and fixing his wrongdoings with Hassan, it brings up questions about how to treat each other: can you always fix mistakes later, or should you do the correct decision right

Amir is a young Afghani boy that possesses few differences from any other boys his age. He looks like, acts like, and lives like a young boy, but he has the advantage of living with a wealthy father. Jealousy is a flaw of his, and is one of the reasons he wallows in his own self pity for the majority of the novel. Hosseini does a remarkable job of making this character real and understandable. Amir is not a hero in any factor, but he does find a