Theme Of Forgiveness In The Kite Runner
Regret is a strong emotion, that can drive people through their memories and into the present. Our past actions can dictate our actions today through psychological acknowledgement and conditioning. The main character, Amir, in The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini shows the theme of redemption through his actions during the novel in order to show a revelation and forgiveness for one’s past.
From the start of the novel, Amir is an absent-minded child, blind to the hardships of the true Afghan world, while living in his mansion with his father. Growing up with his unrealized half-brother, Hassan, together they played in the same house but not on the same grounds. It is not until Hassan is raped and Amir cowardly runs away that Amir realizes
the inconvenient truth of the world. His desire for his father’s affection blinded him and lead him to avoid this confrontation. But can a character of these actions be forgiven? Amir’s childhood, as we find later in the novel, is all a glorious exaggeration. For when the Taliban take over the great district of Kabul, Amir comes back to find it destroyed. The once beautiful city becomes graced with poverty and death. But Amir still finds himself wandering the streets in search of the boy Sohrab, his nephew, under the direction of Rahim Khan. By bringing this boy back to America, Amir will finally be “good” again. It is Amir attempts to redeem himself for this past mistakes that drive the plot and the novel as a whole. The idea of forgiveness for mistakes of any kind is a great reoccurring theme in this novel Not only by Amir but by Baba, his father, as well. His father uses the construction of an orphanage and many other good deeds in his time to come to terms or make up for his “sins”. Even with the talk he gives to Amir about theft and how it is the greatest sin any man convicts, he has stolen Hassan’s right the truth contradicting himself. But his kind gestures and intentions show his want for forgiveness and allow him true redemption.
From the start of the novel, Amir is an absent-minded child, blind to the hardships of the true Afghan world, while living in his mansion with his father. Growing up with his unrealized half-brother, Hassan, together they played in the same house but not on the same grounds. It is not until Hassan is raped and Amir cowardly runs away that Amir realizes
the inconvenient truth of the world. His desire for his father’s affection blinded him and lead him to avoid this confrontation. But can a character of these actions be forgiven? Amir’s childhood, as we find later in the novel, is all a glorious exaggeration. For when the Taliban take over the great district of Kabul, Amir comes back to find it destroyed. The once beautiful city becomes graced with poverty and death. But Amir still finds himself wandering the streets in search of the boy Sohrab, his nephew, under the direction of Rahim Khan. By bringing this boy back to America, Amir will finally be “good” again. It is Amir attempts to redeem himself for this past mistakes that drive the plot and the novel as a whole. The idea of forgiveness for mistakes of any kind is a great reoccurring theme in this novel Not only by Amir but by Baba, his father, as well. His father uses the construction of an orphanage and many other good deeds in his time to come to terms or make up for his “sins”. Even with the talk he gives to Amir about theft and how it is the greatest sin any man convicts, he has stolen Hassan’s right the truth contradicting himself. But his kind gestures and intentions show his want for forgiveness and allow him true redemption.