Redemption In The Kite Runner

Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner: How a Novel Illustrates a Person’s Need for Redemption In a time where nothing is as certain as it was in childhood, it is the small things that make a difference. War makes monster of men and sometimes, those monsters are things (or people) that have been there all along. The human mind wants always to be happy, to know that there are only good things in the world, and can become horrified when faced with the terrors that are all around it. But, most importantly, the guilt that can come with the realization of inaction after a wrongdoing is what drives people towards the thought of atonement. By describing the journey of redemption and acceptance of Amir in The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini highlights a person’s need to alleviate long-standing guilt brought on by inaction in order to depict the need and journey to redemption.
In his teens, him and his family were moved to Paris, France, due to his father’s status as a diplomat. In 1980, when they came back from Paris, their native Afghanistan had been through a coup which replaced the Afghan King with a president, and was in the midst of a war with the Soviet Union, the result of the Soviets attempting the stomp down an uprising. Soon after returning to Afghanistan and seeing this turmoil, the Hosseini’s applied for and received asylum in the U.S., where Hosseini would attend high school and college, and go on to medical school. He wrote The Kite Runner while he was still practicing medicine