Rahim Khan’s Advice Nicole Hamaway The novel The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini tells the story of Amir‚ a boy who faces numerous complications; such as‚ living in the household of an unloving father‚ and ultimately fails miserably when he tried to impress his father. His cowardice is revealed after witnessing the rape of his best friend‚ Hassan. With a guilty conscience‚ Rahim Khan tells Amir to travel to Afghanistan‚ in which Rahim says “there is a way to be good again” as a
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path to redeem his honour and pride. On this path Amir gets beat up to redeem his faults toward his brother‚ Hassan. Amir finally redeems himself once he gets his depressed nephew‚ Sohrab‚ to smile. Amir has truly redeemed his honour and pride on his path to redemption‚ sacrifices himself by getting beat up‚ and making Sohrab smile. Amir has been set on his journey by Rahim Khan‚ his father’s best friend‚ to redeem his honour and
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happiness rather than increasing it. Once Amir has married and established a career‚ only two things prevent his complete happiness: his guilt and his inability to have a child with Soraya. Sohrab‚ who acts as a substitute for Hassan to Amir‚ actually becomes a solution to both problems. Amir describes Sohrab as looking like a sacrificial lamb during his confrontation with Assef‚ but it is actually himself that Amir courageously sacrifices. In doing this‚ as Hassan once did for him‚ Amir redeems
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too much content to be put in a film. However‚ the fil executed the scenes where hassan got raped for Amir’s kite‚ where baba was willing to die for the young woman in the truck‚ the scenes where farid assisted Amir to find sohrab and where Amir got beaten by assef to get sohrab well. All of these scenes are perfect examples of sacrifice. Hassan sacrificed himself for Amir’s kite. So Hassan got raped by assef so that he could get back Amir’s kite that assef didn’t want to give Hassan. Hassan was
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that he could keep the kite Amir wanted. Sohrab‚ Hassan’s son‚ saved Amir’s life while Assef was beating him up. SInce Amir is not capable of standing up for himself‚ he should not be worthy of forgiveness. The last big example of Amir’s selfishness is shown when Sohrab is in the hospital after his failed suicide attempt. The only thing Sohrab asked Amir for was to not be put back into an orphanage‚ and Amir told him he might have to do so. After Amir told Sohrab about the orphanage‚ he left him unsupervised
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of the narrative and may be seen as the turning point in the novel. During this chapter‚ Amir is handed a letter by Hassan writing about his son Sohrab and how life in Kabul has changed dramatically since he and Baba fled to America. Rahim Khan explains how Hassan and Farzana were killed by the Taliban and as his dying wish‚ Amir must go and rescue Sohrab. It is revealed that Baba is Hassan’s father‚ making him and Amir half brothers. Hosseini uses 3 different narrative voices in chapter 17 opposed
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Ethan Shan Ms. Yamamoto World Literature II 9 November 2015 The Past Doesn’t Affect the Future Some say that the future is always influenced by the past. This is often applied to The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini. In this book‚ the protagonist is haunted by guilt his entire life from the failure to help his friend when he needed it‚ but is given the chance to redeem himself later on in his life. Many people say that the idea of the past influencing the future appears frequently in The Kite Runner
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Hassan and his wife Farzana to come live with him along with his child Sohrab. Amir later finds out that the Taliban killed Hassan and Farzana‚ sent Sohrab to an orphanage‚ and that him and Hassan were actually half-brothers. After Amir recovered from the news‚ Rahim Khan asked Amir to go to the orphanage where Sohrab is staying and take him to a couple that will take good care of him. When Amir goes to the orphanage‚ Sohrab isn’t there. The couple informs Amir that a Taliban officer took him and
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Summary Amir recalls an event that happened twenty-six years before‚ when he was still a boy in Afghanistan‚ and says that that made him who he is. He lives in a nice home in Kabul‚ Afghanistan‚ with Baba‚ his father. They have two servants‚ Ali and his son‚ Hassan‚ who are Hazaras. One day‚ Amir and Hassan are playing when they run into three boys‚ the group of Assef. Assef threatens to beat up Amir for hanging around with a Hazara‚ but Hassan uses his slingshot to stop Assef. Hassan’s birthday
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incidents that set the rest of the novel in motion. The more substantial part of Amir’s search for redemption‚ however‚ stems from his guilt regarding Hassan. That guilt drives the climactic events of the story‚ including Amir’s journey to Kabul to find Sohrab and his confrontation with Assef. The moral standard Amir must meet to earn his redemption is set early in the book‚ when Baba says that a boy who doesn’t stand up for himself becomes a man who can’t stand up to anything. As a boy‚ Amir fails to stand
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