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Minor Characters In The Kite Runner

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In the novel, The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini minor characters help to create a greater understanding of the main character Amir and create the central message of redemption. Three minor characters like Hassan, Baba and Sohrab all contribute to giving us a more in depth understanding of Amir. Hassan helps to show the type of person Amir is as a child and how he treats and thinks of people other than himself. Baba helps us to see what Amir wants and shows us that Amirs main goals in life come from the way Baba treats him and his strong want to please Baba. Sohrab helps us understand all the regrets Amir has at the end of the novel and he helps us identify what Amir is trying to make up for. Throughout Amir’s childhood his best friend was Hassan. Hassan would do anything for Amir including standing up to Assef and taking blame for things he didn’t do. Even though Hassan was a loyal and honest friend to Amir, Amir was not the same in return. He would do things to tease and trick …show more content…

When Amir learns about Hassan being his brother he also learns he has a nephew named Sohrab. He finds out that Sohrab is in an orphanage in Kabul and makes it his priority to find him and save him. Amir didn’t find him in the orphanage but found him with the Taliban official, Assef. At this point in the novel Amir was going through all this trouble to make up for his past with Hassan, so he stood up to Assef and ended up getting beaten. While Assef was beating him Amir felt a sense of relief, like it was making up for all the horrible things he did to Hassan as a they were growing up. Later in the novel Amir looks for every possible way to get Sohrab back to America with him. Amir going to Kabul to help Sohrab, standing up to Assef and trying so hard to get Sohrab to America with him and Soraya can all be seen as a way of him redeeming himself and trying to make up for the things he did in the

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