Redemption As we go through life we all make mistakes‚ how we deal with them shows more about us than the mistake its self. In The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini‚ Amir makes a huge mistake that he will struggle with for many years to come‚ until one day he gets a phone call telling him that “There is a way to be good again.” (Hosseini 2) After this he sets off on a journey to redeem himself. As we read‚ we realize that redemption is very difficult but possible to achieve. Some may have to do things
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Summer Reading: The Kite Runner Betrayal “I had one last chance to make a decision. One final opportunity to decide who I was going to be. I could step into that alley‚ stand up for Hassan‚ the way he’d stood up for me all those times in the past‚ and accept whatever would happen to me. Or I could run. In the end I ran.” (Pg. 77) This quote was an example of betrayal because Amir left Hassan by himself in the alley. He didn’t stick up for him like Hassan has done many times for him. He could’ve
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Motif In The Kite Runner‚ the lamb’s purpose is to show the sacrifice of an innocent being. The author used the motif of the lamb in the novel because lambs are often used for sacrifice and the novel brings up sacrifice in many different ways. At different points of the story‚ Amir compares Hassan and Sohrab to lambs ready to be slaughtered. During Assef’s attack on Hassan‚ Amir says ““Assef knelt behind hassan‚ put his hands on Hassan’s hips and lifted his bare buttocks. He kept one hand on Hassan’s
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him he’s won it all. To them‚ they know no one else who runs‚ and thus in my almighty five foot ten‚ lanky limbed runner’s body type stature‚ I must be the new‚ slightly more milky white Mo Farah. They all almost hold the same idea that I’m a gifted runner‚ and there’s no way they could be good themselves. What i don’t think they’ve noticed is the fact that I started off from the same place that they are all at ‚and I’ve only been slowly improving each year. When I first started running‚ I was always
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In the novel‚ The Kite Runner‚ by Khaled Hosseini‚ the attack of Hassan is a significant event as it is the beginning of Amir‚ the narrator’s search for redemption. The opening chapter of the novel starts with Amir who lives in Pakistan with his father‚ Baba‚ and his servant‚ Hassan. Amir starts by retelling his childhood memories‚ particularly‚ his regrets for not rescuing Hassan who is his friend and secretly his half brother during the attack from Assef. Through Hosseini’s clever use of circular
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Do you have the experience that you deny something which is true for self-preservation? When some unavoidable things happen and we can’t accept the truth‚ in this case‚ refuse it may the best choice to comfort ourselves. In the novel The Kite Runner‚ Amir who is the protagonist‚ in order to protect himself from consequences‚ he refuses to acknowledge the truth‚ such as the jealousy‚ father’s prejudice and the guilty. Firstly‚ throughout the whole novel‚ the story is always linked with the
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Amir is a person with darkness looming inside of him. Since he was a boy‚ he faced his darkness‚ his guilt‚ differently from when he was a boy compared to his adulthood. In Khaled Hosseini’s book‚ The Kite Runner‚ Amir at first glance does not seem to grow in character. He lived a privileged childhood‚ but did not take advantage of it because he was overcome by the anguish of his inner guilt of taking his mother’s life by being born. His guilt of taking his mother’s life was an excuse to abandon
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The Kite Runner should not be banned in schools because high schoolers are old enough and mature enough to comprehend the content of the book‚ and it is not too obscene for the age group. The Kite Runner shows how it was living in Afghanistan and how nice it was‚ surprisingly how everyone wanted to live there. Then how life changed after the Taliban started taking over. This book showed people in America life from the perspective of someone‚ that is also a child‚ living in Afghanistan and that
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Kite Runner Questions 1-3 1.The book doesn’t really give a detailed description of Amir but he is referred to as a Pashtun and pashtuns have dark hair and eyes and olive colored skin .In my opinion Amir is a coward and this is evident by the way he renounces Hassan as a friend and referrers to him as a mere servant because he fears what Assef would do to him if he was truly friends with Hassan ‚does nothing to help Hassan when he is raped and after that instance Amir is too afraid to face Hassan
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Socratic Seminar Questions 2. The pomegranate tree is a symbol of the different stages of Hassan and Amir’s friendship. "One summer day‚ I used one of Ali’s kitchen knives to carve our names on it: "Amir and Hassan‚ the sultans of Kabul.’ Those words made it formal: the tree was ours" (26). This quote represents Amir and Hassan’s relationship between them during their early childhood. They are extremely close and carving their names on the tree shows that they will be a part of each other’s
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