Redemption In The Kite Runner

Redemption is compensating for an individual’s errors and sins. Redemption is not acquired simply in one quick moment, but instead through a prolonged process. Individuals need to acknowledge their sins and not let them shape their future, but instead learn how to accept that they have sinned and atone for their sins. An individual may atone for their transgression once they realize physically, emotionally, and spiritually how they sinned and how it affected others. An individual must accept the fact that they have made errors before it’s even possible to make up for them. In the novel, The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini suggests that redemption is a journey with no specific destination. This is parallelized through Amir’s journey back to Kabul, a place he’s known his whole childhood, travelling on a long, dusty road. Amir travels down this road with dust all over, guilt all over, making it difficult to travel, but he still desperately tries to seek for something good, something he used to know.
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This leads to him going back to Kabul in a truck, going on a journey to save his nephew, Sohrab, on a long, dusty road. When Amir gets to Kabul, he sees what he’s known, his whole entire childhood, become destroyed. He goes back to the pomegranate tree only to find out that it is dead. This symbolizes to how it seems impossible to redeem himself, that there isn’t any hope, but ends up “[finding] what [he] was looking for”, the carving he made when he was a child, dull and faded but still there. Redemption, faced as well, but still there, still possible. The feeling of the wood on his fingers encourage him to travel down the long, dusty road, and helps clear the dust a little, helps relieve the guilt little by