Amir's Guilt Quotes

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 guilt Amir felt because of letting Hassan be raped affected many of his future decisions. He made the choice to make it look as though Hassan stole from him, which caused Hassan and Hassan’s father to leave. Amir then moved to America with his father and thought moving would diminish his guilt.

Since Amir was a child he never had the confidence to defend himself but luckily whenever there was danger Hassan was there to protect Amir. Even Amir’s father Baba stated how Amir was unable to defend himself when he was discussing the issue with Rahim Khan, “You know what always happens when the neighborhood boys tease him? Hassan steps in and fends them off”. The truth of

As Assef confronts Amir about his association with Hassan, expressing disgust and questioning how Amir can consider Hassan a friend, Amir develops mixed feelings for Hassan. This scenario depicts their society's significant impacts and socioeconomic divisions. Amir, feeling defensive, nearly blurts out that Hassan is his servant, not his buddy. But then he doubts himself, wondering why he didn't include Hassan in games when Baba's friends were around. It's a period of self-reflection in which Amir recognizes the disparities in his treatment of Hassan and begins to rethink his behaviour.

As leading psychologists say, guilt drives you away from the person you have harmed. Feeling guilty is an everlasting burden that can only be fixed by counteracting your wrongs, it can be made even worse when the victim of your actions is not there to see you redeem yourself. In the Kite Runner Hassan and Amir were childhood best friends, until it all came down when Amir abandoned him when he needed him the most. Years later, Amir's search for Hassan’s lost child brings him to terms with himself, but not Haasan. Amir feels regret for not helping Hassan when he needed it the most and for driving him from their house.

The way we deal with guilt is a process that does not happen overnight. Guilt follows us, consumes us, and lingers within our everyday lives. For Amir, this leads to be true in his process of dealing with his actions and distraught relationships. Progressively through the novel, Amir deals with various important landmarks within his life filled with guilt. The most significant and obvious being the rape of Hassan.

He learned about how he was right his whole life, Hassan meant something to Baba. This brought to light who Baba really was; a man with secrets. By hiding this during Amir’s life it exhibits the reality of their relationship. Amir finds out his father and he is more alike than he ever believed possible. He finally saw his father as an imperfect human instead of the unrealistic expectation of becoming someone as honorable as Baba was seen.

During his graduation, Baba had mentioned that he wished Hassan could have been there, and “a pair of steel hands closed around [his] windpipe at the sound of Hassan’s name. [He] rolled down the window. Waited for the steel hands to loosen their grip” (134). Even moving to America cannot make him forget about Hassan. The “steel hands” represent the guilt of betraying Hassan, and being reminded of him just refreshes the guilt he feels.

Throughout the novel, Amir has a difficult time letting go of this guilt and feels trapped, hyper-fixating on the assault and his actions. This is highlighted when Amir states “It’s wrong what they say about the past”. I've learned how to bury it. Because the past claws its way out. Looking back now, I realize I've been peeking into that deserted alley for the past twenty-six years (Hosseini 1).

The regret of not saving Hassan haunts Amir for the rest of his life and influence his actions. Amir’s guilt eats away at him and he wishes that Hassan will “ give me the punishment I carved, so maybe I’d finally sleep at night”(Hosseini 92). The guilt from Amir’s crime alters the rest of his life. Amir attempts to forget about Hassan “He succeeds in removing him physically, but the ghosts of the past are always present”(Hayes 1). No matter how far physically he gets away from Hassan, but his guilt still haunts him.

Amir’s betrayal of Hassan causes him to feel guilt throughout the rest of his childhood, and into his adulthood, and he can’t get rid of that feeling no matter what he does. A little while after Hassan and Ali move out, Amir and Baba move to America to try and start a new life. Amir did this hoping it would help him move on from Hassan, but it didn’t. Once they got America, Amir did his best to forget about Hassan, and he was somewhat able to, until someone would mention his name. After living in America for a few years, Amir met his future wife Soraya, and Baba came down with a deadly disease. Before Baba died however, he granted Amir’s wish of getting the general’s (soraya’s dad) blessing for Amir to marry Soraya. Before they got married

From time to time again, Amir would think back to that day, wishing he had done something to help. For a long period of time he continued on with his life but the guilt was never removed. His heavy conscience did not allow him to forgive himself. And he had extreme resentment towards his cowardly inability to react. ““Hassan,” I said.

Amir first asks Baba if they could fire them, but after Baba’s reaction, he finds he’ll have to do it in another way. “I lifted Hassan’s mattress and planted my new watch and a handful of Afghani bills under it. ”(Hosseini 104). This is where Amir decides to clean the slate, and he frames Hassan in an attempt to escape his guilt. At this point, Amir has separated Hassan and himself, purposefully avoiding the other.

On page one, Amir foreshadows the novel by stating, “That was a long time ago, but it’s wrong what they say about the past, I’ve learned, about how you can bury it. Because the past claws its way out. Looking back now, I realize I have been peeking into that deserted alley for the last twenty-six years.” Amir is narrating about the experience that changed his life forever, watching Hassan being sexually abused, and looking back with guilt for the rest of his life. Clearly, one of the predominant themes in “The Kite Runner”, written by Khaled Hosseini, is the idea of living life with regret, as Amir has done ever since peeking into the alley and not taking action to save Hassan.

The time Amir felt the most guilt was when Amir saw Hassan get raped and ran instead of helping or getting help. Later in Amir's life he realized that he was a terribly dishonest friend to Hassan and realized he was a monster. Amir says to himself, “ There was a monster in the lake. It grabbed Hassan by the ankles, dragged him to the murky bottom. I was that monster. That was the night i became an insomniac”(Hosseini 86). Amir began to hate himself feeling guilty because of his mistakes in the past, he couldn't even sleep at night.And the monster in Hassan dream symbolizes Amir being a coward which will leave him feeling guilt for the rest of his life. Later on Amir decides to to adopt Sohrab to fix past mistakes and remove that guilt from him. Amir also realized that terrible things were done to Sohrab their. And when Sohrab tries to kill himself, it leaves a lot of pressure on Amir because he already had guilt in him from a death of a great friend and if Hassan son died in the hand of him it would ruin his life.Amir mumbled a prayer at the hospital, “my hands are stained with Hassan's blood; I pray God doesn’t let the get stained with the blood of his boy to”(Hosseini 346). Amir prays because he knows if Sohrab dies he will feel guilty for the rest of hi