1. Describe Amir’s injuries Amir’s spleen had ruptured. He had a delayed rupture because he has signs of hemorrhage in his abdominal cavity. Amir also has several broken ribs. One of his broken ribs caused a pneumothorax.…
In the eyes of Amir, a character in The Kite Runner, “[...]it’s wrong what they say about the past, I’ve learned, about how you can bury it. Because the past claws its way out” (Hosseini 1). Not only do some of the past events in Amir’s adolescent life unfold before him in adulthood, but Amir is in many ways a person of the past. By the end of Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner, Amir has become an unchanged man.…
The more significant piece of Amir's quest for reclamation, on the other hand, originates from his blame with respect to Hassan. Not until the end that Amir finds out that Hassan is his sibling and makes a move to vindicate himself for his selling out to Hassan. That blame drives the climactic occasions of the story, including Amir's excursion to Kabul to rescue Sohrab from the Assef and the Taliban. At last when Amir redeems himself by saving Sohrab and…
Sohrab didn't want to go back so he tried to commit suicide. Sohrab's conflict is within himself when Amir betrayed him. He couldn't decide whether to live a new life with Amir, or to have his "old life" back, where his life would be at risk. This reflects that betrayal leads to the…
These shameful memories drove Amir to find Sohrab in Kabul and bring him back to America. Amir was looking for redemption from his wrongdoings as a child, rather than finding Sohrab out of…
As Amir seeks redemption for his cruelty to Hassan, saving Sohrab is not enough to atone for all his past mistakes. To begin, Amir is a selfish person, especially when it comes to Hassan. The first example of Amir’s selfishness is after cutting the last kite. “For the next few minutes, I scoured the bazaar in vain. Maybe the old merchant’s eyes had betrayed him.…
He showed the same loyalty as he did with Assef, by not fighting back. He didn’t argue with Amir, he just accepted it, and unfortunately also tried to leave the terrible life he was living. Sohrab shows moral loyalty. He doesn’t want to hurt Assef, but does so to save Amir, and this fulfills the legacy his father created of “One-eyed…
Amir is willing to put his life on the line in order to save Sohrab. An example from the text is, “Another rib snapped, this time lower. What was so funny was that, for the first time since the winter of 1975, I felt at peace. I laughed…
After years of contemplating the errors that he had made, Amir decides to rescue Sohrab, the son of his late…
Just as Hassan did, Sohrab also protected Amir. Sohrab not only helped save Amir, but he also saved himself. Sohrab also was very reliable and strong minded, even after all of the things he has been through he was able to live on. His reliability came in when he saved Amir from…
Time might not heal all wounds; but one’s careful actions might. Shakespeare’s play Hamlet and Khaled Hosseini’s novel The Kite Runner, are two different pieces of writing, written centuries apart, yet have countless common themes. Both Hamlet and The Kite Runner display similarities such as, the main characters continuous lack of activity, the relationships between the father and son, and both main characters right their wrongs and take action.…
Had I really thought that?... I turned and came face to face with Hassan 's slingshot[that was aimed at Assef]"(41). Speculating the quote, Amir is shown to have a weak resolve where he is easily persuaded. Hassan, on the other hand, bravely pulls out his slingshot immediately to protect Amir. In this scene, Hassan is speculated as a hero compared to the weak Amir.…
Later Amir finds out that the leader is Assef, Assef tells him that if he wants Sohrab than he has to fight him. So Amir fights him and he is being beaten badly, at last getting what he thought he deserved. He had been looking forward to this moment and “for the first time since the winter of 1975, [he] felt at peace. [He] laughed because [he] saw that, in some hidden nook in the corner of [his] mind, [he’d] even been looking forward to this… [His] body was broken- just how badly [he] wouldn 't find out until later-…
He goes on to tell Amir that Hassan and his wife got killed while his son, Sohrab, got sent to an orphanage. He asks Amir if he could go find Sohrab and bring him back to Pakistan where a family will care for him. This is the opportunity that Amir has been waiting for his entire life: a chance to redeem himself and make amends. After rescuing Sohrab, Amir spent much of his time attempting to justify his actions for the sake of Hassan. Sohrab had left Afghanistan a lifeless boy which caused him to enter America an empty soul.…
“Sohrab’s eyes flicked to me. They were slaughter sheep’s eyes” (Hosseini, 298). When Amir looked into Sohrab’s eyes it was a flashback to the time when the sheep was being slaughtered and when Hassan was innocently raped. When he rescued Sohrab he achieved the redemption that he needed and felt that he owed it to Hassan. He decided to raise Sohrab as his own son.…