Atonement In The Kite Runner

In his critically acclaimed first novel, The Kite Runner, author Khaled Hosseini tells the story of a 12-year-old Afghan boy named Amir, who seeks his father’s love but is hindered by his own cowardice. Both Amir’s cowardice and his father’s lack of attention are compounded by the people and events surrounding Amir, until they feed into each other in a vicious, never-ending cycle.

In the novel The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini tells a notable coming-of-age story portraying the actions and thoughts of Amir, a penitent adult living in the United States and his reminiscence of his affluent childhood in the unstable political environment of Afghanistan. Throughout the novel Khaled Hosseini uses character description to display his thoughts on sin and redemption.

The Kite runner is the first novel by Afghan-American author Khaled Hosseini, published in 2003 by Riverhead Books . It takes place before Afghanistan’s revolution and its invasion by Russian forces. The kite runner is a vivid and engaging story that gives a picture of how long Afghanis struggled to triumph over the forces of violence, forces that threaten them even today. In this novel , four themes have been introduced, first of all Redemption is a way to make up sins committed , secondly, Adversities contribute to a person’s personality , thirdly , Fear can lead to severe mistakes and long term consequences, before last, After pain and struggles come survival and lastly, Friendship is the essence of a bond that seek the best mutually.

While Amir defeats his final obstacle to win Baba’s approval, he reciprocally falls down and fails to show courage in Hassan’s rape. Amir assumes that Hassan “was the price I had to pay, the lamb I had to slay, to win Baba” as he watches Assef sodomize Hassan, and he “actually aspired to cowardice” (77). The atonement of Amir’s sins to Baba sparks the commencement of Amir’s betrayal to Hassan. Furthermore, Amir runs away and hides from his sins in Amerca knowing that he cannot gain the courage to redeem himself and completely fulfill his quest to adulthood. Nonetheless, Rahim Khan provides Amir an opportunity to accomplish his redemption. After decades of hiding, Rahim Khan calls Amir to tell him to “come” back to Kabul since “there is a way to be good again” (192). Amir must successfully accomplish his final obligation to complete his quest to maturity. In addition, Amir must stop hiding like a boy and begin to stand up like a man. As Amir returns to Kabul to save Sohrab, and ultimately redeem himself, he must fight Assef one last time, which results in Amir’s “body being broken – just how badly I wouldn’t find out until later – but I felt healed. Healed at last” (289). Amir now receives his deserved punishment and, most importantly, he learns to stand up and finally matures into a man. Although Amir completes his quest to adulthood, readers must realize that Amir must ultimately grant Sohrab a

This research project is focused on understanding a book, The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini. In addition, the project objective is to understand choices, actions, and processes of characters and what factors led them to arrive to such consequences.

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.

The characters of the novel “The Kite Runner” Baba, Amir, and Sanaubar show the sacrifice of atonement through the suppression of forgiveness and emotional courage to those they love the most. In the novel “The Kite Runner” by Khaled Hosseini, the theme of atonement reveals the true and often hidden meanings that people try to hide, the characters of Khaled Hosseini mirror our world by revealing how atonement is a force brought forward by courage and motivation. In “The Kite Runner”, Baba at the beginning of the novel hides his past from Amir and Hassan only revealing that he had an affair with Sanaubar after he died in the form of Rahim Khan's plea to Amir leaving Hassan in the dark about his entire life. Baba portrayed himself as a very strong

Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner is a remarkable coming-of-age novel describing and revealing the thoughts and actions of Amir, a compunctious adult in the United States and his memories of his affluent childhood in the unstable political environment of Afghanistan. The novel showcases the simplistic yet powerful ability of guilt to influence decisions and cause conflict which arises between Amir’s childhood friend and half-brother, Hassan; Amir’s father, Baba; and importantly, himself. Difference in class The quest to become “good again” causes a reflection in Amir to atone for his sins and transform into the person of which he chooses to be.

Social conditions are what shape a country. Over the years, people, not only in Afghanistan, but around the world create norms that define people’s roles in life, their future, and how they should be treated based on their gender and beliefs. Khaled Hosseini’s first novel, The Kite Runner, comments on the social conditions of Afghanistan through telling a story about the lives of two Muslim boys; a privileged Sunni Pashtun, Amir, and his long-time friend and servant, Hassan, a loyal but disadvantaged Shia Hazara. Hosseini expresses Amir’s uncertain feelings toward Hassan which form the decisions he makes throughout the book. These choices result in Amir destroying his relationship with Hassan. The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini is a commentary on the social conditions in Afghanistan as shown through the roles of women and men in society and the ideals of Afghan culture. Unfortunately, these problems are still active in most of Afghanistan.

The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini, follows the maturation of Amir, a boy from Afghanistan, as he discovers what it means to stand up for what he believes in. His quest to redeem himself after betraying his friend and brother, Hassan, makes up the heart of the novel. When Amir hears that his father’s old business partner, Rahim Khan, is sick and dying, he travels to Pakistan to say his goodbyes. Rahim Khan tells Amir about Hassan’s life and eventual death; the Taliban murdered Hassan while he was living in Amir’s childhood home. As his dying wish, Rahim Khan asks Amir to rescue Hassan’s son, Sohrab, from an orphanage in Afghanistan. Although Amir refuses at first, he thinks about what Rahim Khan had always told him: “There is a way to be

The novel “The Kite Runner” by Afghan-American author Khaled Hosseini is a powerful story about two boys whose friendship is threatened by deception and betrayal yet withstands the pressures of cultural barriers and legal boundaries. Amir, who is both the protagonist and narrator of the novel, is conflicted between tumultuous events in his own life and the fall of the Afghan monarchy. The novel uses Baba's diminishing health and emotional turmoil to reflect the significant changes of Afghanistan's sociopolitical degradation from a peaceful and affluent era to a warzone torn between the russian invasion and the talibans attempt to overthrow the afghan monarchy. What the reader learns about Baba through Amir's viewpoint is not the entire story. As described by Amir, he is a man who seems untouchable, unreachable, because he towers over ordinary men.

When you were a child, do you remember ever making a promise to be loyal to a friend? Maybe you exchanged cute heart necklaces or pendants or carved your names into a tree. In Khaled Hosseini 's The Kite Runner, two kids, Amir, and Hassan seem to have a strong friendship, represented in their names carved into a pomegranate tree. However, Amir reveals weakness in their friendship when he betrays Hassan by not intervening when the town bully, Assef, sexually assaults Hassan. In Mindset: The New Psychology of Success, Carol S. Dweck describes two types of mindsets. One is the fixed mindset, which is the belief that a person has a fixed amount of intelligence, and one cannot see growth in error, and a growth mindset, which is the belief that

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini, an Afghan-American author, is about a man, Amir, talking about his life as an Afghan in both Afghanistan and the United States. The book begins in the 1970’s when Amir lives in Afghanistan until he moves to the United States by 1980, and throughout his life in America, Amir persists to talk about his life in Afghanistan until he returns there in 2001 to visit an old family friend. Since Hosseini is an Afghan-American, he uses his own experiences to develop the novel with a character with similar experiences and persona as well as a completely accurate history of Afghanistan from the 1970’s to 2002. Though sad-hearted, the book is very compelling and intriguing while readers experience Amir’s journey with

“There is a way to be good again” (Hosseini 2). In the historical fiction novel, The Kite Runner, written by Khaled Hosseini, Rahim Khan, one of the significant characters, proposes this line as a way to inform the protagonist that there is always a way to seek forgiveness. Hosseini illustrates that relationships can be reestablished by atoning one’s mistake. This reflects back to society’s expectation on making amends.

Do you ever wonder what the effects of atonement are? In Khaled Hosseini’s novel, The Kite Runner, Baba committed sins involving his family and later tried to atone for them. The good deeds Baba fulfilled changed other people’s lives and made him feel redeemed. Another character from the novel, Amir was able to show his good character by saving his nephew, Sohrab, from Assef in Afghanistan, and bringing him home to America to a new life. When Amir does this, it makes Sohrab’s life better. Amir’s life also improves when he feels the pain and guilt of his past sins slip away. The Kite Runner demonstrates that after doing something wrong individuals seek atonement in order to show that they have good character and as an attempt to feel free of their past guilt and sins which makes a positive difference in the lives of others.