There Is A Way To Be Good Again Analysis

“There is a way to be good again.” This is a lesson that I personally learned from The Kite Runner, and I truly believe it to be true. In the book, Amir went through his whole life feeling guilty about all of the wrong and cruel things he did to his friend Hassan. When Rahim Khan called Amir and told him that he could in fact be good again, Amir went out of his way (to another country) to fix what he had done. This is a lesson that we can all apply to our lives in more ways than one. Everybody has something to feel guilty about. This can be something as small as turning in a paper or assignment late to something as big as murdering someone (although hopefully this is not as common). Things like this can bring us so much guilt all throughout our lives, and we just want to feel like we have gotten the punishment we deserve
This is the struggle for most people. Although Amir did not experience this because Hassan forgave him and was still a good friend to him, we face it whenever we do something wrong to someone that we care about. The other end of the spectrum is that the person we have wronged will forgive us, but we feel so guilty that we push them away. This was the situation for Amir and Hassan, and it is actually very sad. Of course we do not want to lose someone that we care about. However, we do not understand how they can forgive us, and every time we are around them we seem to think of what happened.
Overall, the theme of “there is a way to be good again” relates to everyone. It is something that most people will face in their life, so it is a nice lesson to learn early on. Everyone needs to know that they cannot punish themselves forever, and there is a way to make up for the bad things in life. The Kite Runner gives us these lessons. Everybody should take these lessons to heart because they will help at some point in