The Theme Of Guilt In 'The Kite Runner'

Many people experience some form of guilt at one point or another in their lives, and they can do one of two choices. They can leave it alone, push it aside try and forget about it, even though that never usually works and there are going to be some sleepless nights ahead; Or, they can redeem themselves, which regardless if the problem is solved or not, they know they have done the best they can and that feeling of endless guilt isn’t in their system. Some authors plot has to deal with guilt just like in the book The Kite Runner. In the novel The Kite Runner, Hoesseini shows how someone’s life can go so terribly wrong and cause them to be so full of guilt, can bounce back and seek good and redemption. Amir was jealous of his friend Hassan …show more content…
Amir is jealous of Hassan because his Baba likes Hassan better than him, so one day he puts his watch and money that he got for his birthday under Hassans bed. Then he accused Hassan of taking his valuables which successfully got Hassan to leave the house and his life. Shortly Amir saw what had happened to Hassan that day of the Kite flying contest, he went on a trip with Baba and “[he] finally had what he wanted all those years” which was for Baba to love him more, but “[he] felt as empty as the unkempt pool [he] was dangling [his] legs into”(85). He misses Hassan because without him in his life he feels empty as if there is a piece of him missing. He really tries to get passes what he had done and saw but he just couldn’t and he couldn’t stop thinking about Hassan because whether he likes it or not he needs Hassan in his life. Hassan still tried to be friends with Amir even though Amir was pushing him away and wanted nothing to do with him. One day Hassan had a dream that him and Amir were going to go swimming in a lake but everyone said there was a monster lurking in the lake. But they went in anyways and there was no monster after all. Amir envisioned a different spin on this story, because as they were swimming instead of being safe “there was a monster in the lake, it had grabbed Hassan by the ankles and dragged him down to the murky bottom. [He] was that monster. That was the night [he] became an insomniac”(86). This really shows how Hassan thinks that their friendship is fine and that Amir would do nothing to hurt him. But Amir knows he is wrong and that he is selfish and would do something do bring him down like it says in the quote. That dream really started his sleepless nights where all he could think about was the time he saw Hassan get molested but didn’t do anything about it. The thing that makes him stay up even more is that he can’t do anything about it now that he forced Hassan out of