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“The kite Runner shows that it is better to confront our mistakes than attempt to leave them behind” Discuss.
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini is a realistic fiction novel about making mistakes, and Attempt tp leave them behind. The novel takes place in Kabul, Pakistan and America in recent times. The Kite Runner is about two motherless boys who create lifelong memories together. The main character tries to find inner peace after he betrays his best friend. Amir is a boy who has dark skin and blue eyes. He desperately tries to make his father love him and pay attention to him. He writes stories that have meaning. He becomes a kind gentile man who always gives money when people are in need.

Hassan is Baba's son and Amir's half-brother. He is raised most of his life by Ali, Baba's Slave. He has a flat broad nose and slanting eyes that look like many colors depending on the light. He has tiny low set ears and a pointed stub of a chin. Hassan would do whatever Amir would tell him. He does not like violence but would do anything to save Amir. People make fun of him because he is Hazara.
The Kite Runner Analysis
The expression "riddled with guilt" is a good way to describe the main character's life, Amir, in the book The Kite Runner, written by Khaled Hosseini. The Kite Runner is a story about an Afghan boy, Amir, who has many hardships throughout his life as he grows from a boy living in war-torn Afghanistan, to a successful writer living in America. Amir experiences many events that caused him to carry a great amount of guilt throughout his life. So much guilt that it even turned him into an insomniac. He needed to find a way to make amends which would allow him to forgive himself and hopefully, one day, be able to sleep soundly again.
Guilt was a main theme that occurred over and over again throughout the story. Amir can trace his feelings of guilt back to the moment he was born since his mother died during childbirth and Amir thinks his father blamed him.

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