Parallelism In The Kite Runner

How Amir Comes to Be a Fully Grown Person Becoming a fully developed person does not just have to do with developing physically. One’s majority can only be approved of if there is mental, moral advancing as well. In the book “The Kite Runner”, Khaled Hosseini guides us through the maturing of the narrator, Amir through parallelism. A grownup Amir faces parallel situations to what he had experienced in childhood. These situations are ones that Amir regrets and wishes to forget, due to their destructive consequences. So when Amir encounters their mirroring situations, he counters them in a mature and developed way, with actions he was too young to carry out before. Literary features like irony, action and characterization join with parallelism
Although the actions are the same, their intentions are ironic. The dictions they use when describing the situations are similar, because they both use “planted” and “fistful” (Hosseini 242). However, readers know that adult Amir is trying to do good by helping, because he did the action right after he realized that Wazid’s family gave him food out of respect, meaning that their children didn’t get to eat. It might be a small gesture, but it is a sizeable and a caring deed to Wazid’s. Readers can see that the child Amir was meaning bad because he was being very devious, which readers can tell by the repetition of “waiting” and dictions such as “tiptoed”, ”listened” and “shameful” (Hosseini 104). The author used situational irony to show that he has developed to be a considerate person, and is able to make amends by thinking about others. This differs a lot from when he hid money into Hassan’s mattress, when Amir was being cowardly and greedily. Also, by carrying out good deeds to others, Amir is starting to redeem his wrong doings, an important idea in the
In the corner of the alley, when Amir sees the older boys surrounding Hassan, he is very nervous. He “doesn’t breath out”, “exhales slowly”, “feels paralyzed”, “just watched”, ”bites the fist”, and “runs” (Hosseini 77). This shows his cowardice as a young child, but it also signifies his low depth of loyalty for his friend. Amir does everything he can to earn Baba’s love, and it blinds him of his and Hassan’s brotherhood. Thirty years later, Rahim Khan tells Amir “there is a way to be good again” (Hosseini 226). He tells Amir to rescue Sohrab from Afghanistan to mend the cycle of sins that Amir’s family committed to Hassan’s family. Amir’s decision to find Sohrab is the first real step he takes to atone his past. The decision he made will impact Sohrab’s life forever, so it shows that Amir is willing to think of someone other then himself. Since the setting is in Afghanistan, where it is very deadly and violent, Amir’s decisions can be seen as very brave. Amir also developed because he chooses his instant thought rather than the choice he comes up with after thinking for a long time about it. Running away at the alley was a decision based on long thinking, and Amir has regretted for his whole year. Finally, his decision proves that he is loyal to Hassan, even though he showed it at the last chance