In life there are many people that can have a clouded vision in their moral decisions, Amir is a perfect example of moral ambiguity. In Khaled Hosseini's The Kite Runner young Amir makes some unethical decisions, he was selfish and afraid to stick for himself or others. He would later greatly regret these decisions. Amir spends the many years following his youth trying to fix is mistakes and truly redeem himself.
On the surface Amir comes across as a terrible person, especially in in younger years. Although nobody is truly perfect, Amir is purely a selfish coward. Amir is trying to navigate through life knowing that he has done something terribly wrong. Amir witnesses his best and only real friend, Hassan get raped by the town bully. Amir just stands there in the shadows of the alley, he doesn't intervene, he doesn't get help. Amir says “In the end I ran. I ran because I was a coward. I was afraid of Assef and what he would do to me. I was afraid of getting hurt…. The answer floated to my conscious mind before I could thwart …show more content…
He can’t make decision on the spot, he freezes up alot. As a result of this it changes the plot of the novel as a whole. One decision could change your entire life. If he would have intervened while hassan was getting harassed, maybe Hassan would have stayed. Maybe Amir would not have gone to America with Baba, Maybe Hassan would still be alive. Maybe Sohrab would still be in Afghanistan. However in the end it all worked out. Rahim Khan said “And that I believe, is what true redemption is, Amir Jan,when guilt leads to good” (302). That is exactly what happened to Amir. Amir says to himself “I looked down at sohrab. One corner of his mouth has curled up just so. A smile... Hardly there. But there”(371). By the end of the novel Amir is now truly redeemed. He cleared his name, he righted a wrong. Most importantly he rescued Sohrab from the taliban where he was doomed to
On the surface Amir comes across as a terrible person, especially in in younger years. Although nobody is truly perfect, Amir is purely a selfish coward. Amir is trying to navigate through life knowing that he has done something terribly wrong. Amir witnesses his best and only real friend, Hassan get raped by the town bully. Amir just stands there in the shadows of the alley, he doesn't intervene, he doesn't get help. Amir says “In the end I ran. I ran because I was a coward. I was afraid of Assef and what he would do to me. I was afraid of getting hurt…. The answer floated to my conscious mind before I could thwart …show more content…
He can’t make decision on the spot, he freezes up alot. As a result of this it changes the plot of the novel as a whole. One decision could change your entire life. If he would have intervened while hassan was getting harassed, maybe Hassan would have stayed. Maybe Amir would not have gone to America with Baba, Maybe Hassan would still be alive. Maybe Sohrab would still be in Afghanistan. However in the end it all worked out. Rahim Khan said “And that I believe, is what true redemption is, Amir Jan,when guilt leads to good” (302). That is exactly what happened to Amir. Amir says to himself “I looked down at sohrab. One corner of his mouth has curled up just so. A smile... Hardly there. But there”(371). By the end of the novel Amir is now truly redeemed. He cleared his name, he righted a wrong. Most importantly he rescued Sohrab from the taliban where he was doomed to