Bravery In The Kite Runner

Bravery: courageous behavior or character. Someone who is brave does not care what would happen to them if a serious or dangerous matter were to happen. They are ready to endure danger or pain to help whoever they are helping. Bravery can save someone’s life in any given situation. Baba was willing to risk his life for a girl he did not know for being raped from a russian soldier. Amir knew what he was going into when he was trying to save Sohrab from Assef. They did not care if they were going to be hurt or killed because they were brave enough to help them out. The consequences were very high but they knew the right thing to do was to save the person they were fighting for. Khaled Hosseini’s novel, The Kite Runner, teaches the reader that bravery could save someone's life through Baba trying to save the women from being harassed and sexually assaulted by the russian soldier and Amir risking his life to save Sohrab by fighting to the death with Assef. …show more content…
He knew that he was going to do anything to stop the soldier from causing any harm. Hosseini himself writes, “Baba slapped my hand away. Haven’t I taught you anything? He snapped. He turned to the grinning soldier. Tell him he’d better kill me good with that first shot. Because if I don’t go down, I’m tearing him to pieces, goddamn his father” (Hosseini 116). What Baba was doing was protecting the girl he has never seen before from being sexually assaulted or even being killed. He knew what he was getting himself into but knew it was the right thing to do. Baba had to do help out because no one else was brave enough to help the