Comparing The Kite Runner: The Road To Redemption

Most people, at some point in their life, will go through a specific journey in order to seek redemption for a wrong decision or mistake they made at some point in their lives. This journey can only be completed by an individual who is willing to do whatever it takes in order to find the redemption they seek. In Khaled Hosseini 's novel The Kite Runner, Amir, the main character, has to risk his life to find redemption for a decision he made during his childhood in Afganistan. Amir witnesses Hassan, his best friend, being raped by Assef. Instead of helping Hassan, Amir, thinking only about his own safety, runs away. By doing this, Amir has an unending feeling of remorse for not helping Hassan. He then chooses to go on this journey and finally is able to become "good again". Khaled Hossieni, in The Kite Runner, explores how the road to redemption begins with a moral mishap, such as Amir 's betrayal of Hassan, that causes and internal struggle, like guilt, and a desire to seek forgiveness and successfully atone for one 's past mistakes, as Amir does in confronting Assef and saving Sohrab. In order to win …show more content…
The feeling of remorse causes Amir to make really difficult decisions, such as confronting Assef, that makes the journey so much harder. In addition to finding a freedom from the guilt, Amir tries to find forgiveness for his mistake by saving Sohrab, Hassan 's son. Throughout the entire book Amir goes on this journey to try to find a way to be "good again". In real life, people constantly struggle to find forgiveness or redemption for a mistake they made. This journey causes people to go outside their limits to atone their mistakes by confronting those whom they betrayed or somehow finding a way to correct their