Consequences Of Guilt In Shakespeare's The Kite Runner

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The Secret Runner
The story The Kite Runner shows how secrets can also lead into guilt and other problems. Guilt can alway be redeemed by doing something good. In the story both Baba and Amir do bad things and they try to redeem them when they get older. Secrets aren’t always the way out of a problem, in the story baba hid a very big secret from Amir but in the end he find out about the secret. In the story Amir had many secrets that were kept away from him. The biggest one was by Baba and it affected him in a very bad way when he finds out.
In the story Baba and Amir both try to redeem themselves when they grow up because they realized that they did bad things when they were younger. We see Baba in the story doing a lot of things to help
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Guilt can lead into other problems guilt lead Baba into not telling Amir that he had a brother that he never knew about.guilt can always be redeemed by doing something good the first premise shows how Baba and Amir try to redeem themselves by doing something unexpected to help a helpless person and putting that person’s need before there own same as what Baba did with the orphanage and what Amir did with Sohrab. Secrets aren’t always the way out of a problem. In the story Baba never told Amir that hassan was his brother because he was not from the same mother but when Baba died Amir found out and that made things even worse and when Hassan told Rahim about what happened in the alley Amr thought it would be better if he never to Amir about the fact that he knew but that only made things worse because now Amir had no one to talk to about what happened. Secrets can have a bad effect on other people 's lives. Baba thought it would help Amir live a happier life but instead it made him more depressed when he found out about the fact that he had a brother that he never knew about and Hassan also helped Baba keep the secret because he knew that Amir was his brother but he never told him mainly because Baba told him not to but it 's Hassan’s fault that he did not talk some sense into Baba and convince him to tell Amir about the fact that they were

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