Kite Runner Redemption

The Kite Runner is an extraordinary novel where the author, Khaled Hosseini emphasizes that the most dominant theme throughout the story is betrayal and redemption. This book focuses on the childhood of an Afghani-American named Amir and the issues he undergoes that soon become the main plot of the story. Amir struggles to seek redemption after his betrayal of his childhood best friend, Hassan. Amir had huge cowardness after Hassan's rape, betrayed Hassan soon after the rape, and created one of the biggest sins anyone in the Afghan culture could make. To get the redemption he needed, Amir took a journey back to his war-torn homeland to make an attempt to clear the guilt he had been feeling for a majority of his lifetime. As children, Amir and Hassan were inseparable. The two of them “used to climb the poplar trees in the driveway of [Amir’s] father’s house and annoy [Amir and Hassan] neighbors by reflecting sunlight into their homes with a shard of mirror” (3), but after a kite-running tournament in Kabul in the year of 1975, everything had changed for the worse. Since Hassan comes from a different social class than Amir, Hassan never participated in the events due to his political, ethnical, and religious …show more content…
Living in the United States was much more different from living in Kabul on Amir's part and his life was like a roller coaster that kept going down. After he settles in with his new wife and after his dad had died from cancer, Amir had got an unexpected call from his dads old friend, Rahim Khan saying that he was sick. A week later, Amir takes his journey back to Pakistan in hopes he can get the redemption he wanted, the redemption Rahim Khan wanted. “[Amir] thought about a comment Rahim Khan had made just before we hung up..[Rahim Khan] knew about Assef, the kite, the money, the watch with the lighting bolt hands. He had always known”