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Sin In The Kite Runner

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If there is one thing in the world that has remained throughout history and will forever remain history, it is sin. Sin is something that will remain to torture us until we make amends. In Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini, we see Amir make decisions that will become his sin and forever change his life. With those sins, he changed slowly and rapidly at times through his journey. Midway in his journey, he comes to a point where everything he once knew, was just another fragment added to the whole story he has to learn. One of the things present in that journey is the symbol of his sins that affect him later on when he turns into an adult. He was once a child and transformed into an adult when the time came for him to make the amend for the one …show more content…

We do not think much of our daily sins because it is part of our human nature that we do so. In the Kite Runner, Amir learns a clear lesson that theft is the source of all sins and that no other sin is greater than that. His father taught him that with his own words, “ There is no act more wretched than stealing...”(pg. 18) which would end up being true later on. It is important to the story because theft comes in many forms. Whether it is stealing someone’s opportunity to live their life, stealing someone’s dignity, or even stealing someone’s happiness, it will become a sin that will stick with us until we amend it. Amir commits a sin that will forever haunt him until he changes it. He stole his friend’s, Hassan, happiness and his own. The moment he committed the crime of stealing his own safety over Hassan caused the theft of many lives to come in the future. He, “In the end, (I) ran”(pg.77) from that alleyway. That sin he caused would be the monster he created that, “(Hassan) was wrong about… it grabbed Hassan by the ankles, dragged him to the murky bottom. I was that monster.”(pg. 86) and end his peaceful life. It was the one sin he committed on the one day that would lead to a series of sins that would stick to him until he made amends to it. Though those changes were not immediate, Amir changed throughout the story he tells us and of the sins he kept in his …show more content…

He tells us his perspective of the world and what his actions meant to him. He tells us the life of when he was little. He said he, “Hassan never denied me anything… I’d tease him, expose his ignorance.”(pg.4&28) This shows us he was a child of trouble but yet weak. His father, Baba, even said, “...he never fights back”(pg.22) which clearly states that he cannot stand up for himself. This will come true when he decided to make a choice that would lead to the life he has in the present. It was at the point where he betrayed Hassan when he started to change. He couldn’t have empathy for himself or Hassan. When Hassan left him, he felt nothing because it was too late. He had become empty and alone until he had come to America to only change once again. In America he started to take the opportunity he had for education and to advance his love for writing. He started to become closer to Baba and became a man that has yet to become a man. Amir showed signs of becoming a man with his interactions with Soraya and their family. He, “...done the polite thing and declined the offer”(pg. 149) when Khanum Taheri offered him to sit down. This is a huge change from the child Amir who lied to his friend and couldn’t stand for himself or others. He also showed that he was responsible. He understood the American customs very well and adapted to it. He also graduated highschool and started junior college which was important in his culture.

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