Kite Runner Moments

As children, we have a clear understanding of the how the world works. Eventually, however, we all learn that the world is not what we want it to be. The world we live in is not the world we were told about in family stories and fairy tales we read as children. There is just as much violence and hatred in this world as there is peace and love. In Khaled Hosseini’s novel, “The Kite Runner”, Amir learns this lesson the hard way. Amir learns that the world does not care about who he is or how he feels. This is portrayed three moments that not only defines Amir’s life and how he lives it, but how comes to understand how the world truly works. These life defining moments are Hassan’s rape, Baba getting shot and Sohrab’s attempted suicide.

In “The Kite Runner”, though Hassan is Amir’s family servant, they have what seems like an unbreakable friendship. …show more content…
He won the kite running tournament, he loses his best friend. His father shows him respect and love, he is forced to leave his home. He falls in love with a beautiful woman, his father loses his battle with cancer;however, while these moments may have helped Amir mature, there is one moment that completely broke Amir. When his half-nephew, Sohrab, attempts to commit suicide. After saving Sohrab from Assef, Amir goes through the process of adopting him so that he can get him into the United States, only to be advised to once again put Sohrab into a orphanage for a few months.Sohrab did not want to go back to the orphanage because he was afraid someone like Assef would take him again. That same night Amir gets a call from his wife saying that her father pulled a few strings and Sohrab would be able to enter the U.S. legally. When Amir goes to tell Sohrab he sees the light in the bathroom on and hears the water on. Thinking that he was in there he goes in there to tell Sohrab the good news, only to see that he has attempted to commit