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
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Amir and Hassan are in a different social class of not just based on their wealthy and poor but the ethnic that represent the separation and the racism in Afghanistan. In Afghan society there are many criticism of how other Muslims help other Muslims but other Muslims treated other Muslims unfairly. Amir is a Pashtuns which is a high population living in Afghanistan and Hassan is a Hazaras in a lower population. Throughout the novel‚ Amir found his mother’s old history book and found chapters about
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Pashtuns and Hazaras are two different ethnic groups that play significant roles by how individuals behave or think throughout the text. "’Afghanistan is the land of Pashtuns. It always has been‚ always will be. We are the true Afghans‚ the pure Afghans‚ not this Flat-Nose here’"(69). This quote is an example of how Assef‚ a Pashtun‚ thinks that he his more superior than another person just because of their ethnicity. Additionally‚ this quote is foreshadowing how Assef is going to behave later on
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Amir - The narrator and the protagonist of the story. Amir is the sensitive and intelligent son of a well-to-do businessman in Kabul‚ and he grows up with a sense of entitlement. His best friend is Hassan‚ and he goes back and forth between acting as a loyal friend and attacking Hassan out of jealousy whenever Hassan receives Amir’s father’s affection. Amir is a gifted storyteller and grows from aspiring writer to published novelist. His great desire to please his father is the primary motivation
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Once Amir gets some answers concerning Baba’s transgression‚ he feels as if his whole life has been a cycle of disloyalty‚ even before he sold out Hassan. Be that as it may‚ having an essence of treachery himself does little towards recovering Amir. At the point when Assef very nearly murders Amir‚ he feels "mended‚" as if now that Assef has hurt him‚ he is recovered. He even tells Farid that in the room with Assef‚ he "got what he merited." In the end‚ Amir figures out that discipline is not what
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In this passage‚ Baba gives Hassan a birthday gift‚ which is a hired-surgeon to fix Hassan’s cleft lip. We can see in this passage that Amir is obviously jealous that Hassan gets more affection to Baba. This is ironic because Amir is Hassan’s friend and he should be happy for him. Amir thinks that Hassan steals Baba’s attention. Jealousy is an underlying cause of the problems Amir has with his friendship with Hassan. Amir is also jealous of the unwavering loyalty and strong personality that Hassan
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Amir and Soraya found out they couldn’t have children. Without a child they feel disconnected towards each other. I think Amir should tell Soraya because he can finally get it off his chest. Chapters 15-20 Amir and Rahim Khan are in Pakistan. Amir says that the reason cliches exist is because they are true. He uses the cliche about the “an elephant in the room” because doesn’t want to talk about what happened to Hassan. Hassan was living in a small village. Ali father is dead. Hassan is married
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When Amir says "it"‚ he is referring to the act of watching Hassan get raped. "It" is a curse for Amir‚ because even though Amir was somewhat powerless when he witnessed Hassan’s rape‚ he didn’t try to stop this horrific event from happening. Amir‚ though he was not the perpetrator of the crime‚ feels that because he did not even try to prevent the grievous harm that would come of Hassan‚ because he did not take any chances which could have kept this event from happening‚ he is partly responsible
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Being the focus of the story‚ Amir is incontrovertibly the protagonist of this film. Not only was this illustrated by the details of his emotional activities‚ his appearance in almost every scene in the movie also justified his role as the protagonist. Amir was a boy born from a wealthy and highly regarded family in Kabul‚ Afghanistan. His mother passed away giving birth to him‚ and Amir inferred to this and his cowardice as to why Baba‚ his father‚ developed displeasure at his presence. Soon‚ the
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The Importance of Forgiveness Forgiveness is essential to daily life. An important person does the unthinkable‚ and finally that person earns forgiveness. It is important to forgive oneself‚ so one can forgive others‚ too. In The Kite Runner‚ novelist Khaled Hosseini tells about the past of the Afghan refugee‚ Amir‚ and about the importance of forgiveness regarding to what happens in Afghanistan a long time before Amir arrives in America. Amir grows up in Kabul with his prosperous father‚ Baba
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