Khaled Hosseini is a well-known Afghan born American novelist. After his notably debut in The Kite runner, 2003 he dropped his doctor profession and became a full-time writer. The Kite runner is his first published novel which is set in his native Afghanistan, offered simple tales of redemption and grace while the ugly realities of war in the country rumbled through the news. It is a tale of two boys, Amir and Hassan, during their growing up years in Kabul. In the winter of 1975 an event takes place that creates a chasm between Amir and Hassan, and five years later when Amir and his father move to San Francisco to escape the Russian takeover of Afghanistan, Amir is glad to start over. Amir grows, attends college, and finally develops a relationship
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We also see how the quest to alleviate this guilt is all consuming and how the road to redemption is often paved with pain and regrets. Guilt is a prevailing emotion that has the power to destroy one’s life if one does not confess his sins and ask for forgiveness. One’s life is defined by the emotions they portray. If one’s emotions are guilt and remorse, the decisions one makes in his/her life will be greatly impacted.
In this paper I am interested in discussing the major theme that evolved in the novel The Kite Runner that is of guilt and redemption. I wish to show the guilt of Amir that he goes through in the incident that happened during his childhood years and how to overcome the guilt he paves a way of redemption by returning to Afghanistan for the aid of Hassan. This guilt of Amir is not only of personal guilt but it becomes familial and societal guilt which stays with him for a long …show more content…
The novel is also on Hosseini's personal memories of growing up in the Wazir Akbar Khan section of Kabul and a subsequent migration to USA and adapting to life in California.. This guilt and redemption becomes a major theme of the novel. The tension that pervades throughout the novel, does not emerge from a mere juxtaposition of the opposite forces like sin and redemption, loyalty and betrayal, political and religious fundamentalism and secular liberalism; it is rather a result of failed reconciliation between the opposites that brings about the crises leading to a dilemma. For the author as well as the protagonist of the novel, Afghanistan in those difficult times was a hell to live
We also see how the quest to alleviate this guilt is all consuming and how the road to redemption is often paved with pain and regrets. Guilt is a prevailing emotion that has the power to destroy one’s life if one does not confess his sins and ask for forgiveness. One’s life is defined by the emotions they portray. If one’s emotions are guilt and remorse, the decisions one makes in his/her life will be greatly impacted.
In this paper I am interested in discussing the major theme that evolved in the novel The Kite Runner that is of guilt and redemption. I wish to show the guilt of Amir that he goes through in the incident that happened during his childhood years and how to overcome the guilt he paves a way of redemption by returning to Afghanistan for the aid of Hassan. This guilt of Amir is not only of personal guilt but it becomes familial and societal guilt which stays with him for a long …show more content…
The novel is also on Hosseini's personal memories of growing up in the Wazir Akbar Khan section of Kabul and a subsequent migration to USA and adapting to life in California.. This guilt and redemption becomes a major theme of the novel. The tension that pervades throughout the novel, does not emerge from a mere juxtaposition of the opposite forces like sin and redemption, loyalty and betrayal, political and religious fundamentalism and secular liberalism; it is rather a result of failed reconciliation between the opposites that brings about the crises leading to a dilemma. For the author as well as the protagonist of the novel, Afghanistan in those difficult times was a hell to live