In a lifetime, everyone will face personal battles that may result in guilt. Some may be large and others may be small. Guilt can stem from things such as sneaking out or telling something untruthful. People find peace of mind through redeeming themselves, in other words, we do something that makes up for the cause of guilt or sin. In The Kite Runner, written by Khaled Hosseini, Amir’s guilt and his urgent need for redemption are consistently a part of his life as he is growing up. The author allows his readers to understand how to overcome sin and achieve redemption through an effective use of metaphors, foreshadowing, and character development.
Amir does not have a strong relationship with his father, Baba. Like most children, Amir tries to figure out what he has done to cause the problem. He wonders if it is …show more content…
He receives a call from Rahim Kahn, calling from Pakistan, asking him to visit. Amir thinks to himself, “I knew it wasn’t just Rahim Kahn on the line. It was my past of unatoned sins” (12). Initially, the reader would not know what Amir has done to think this way, since this event is located on the very first page of chapter one. Under those circumstances, it is obvious that a phone call from Pakistan is significant enough to be forcing him to consider how he can deliver from his sins. Likewise, during the phone call, just before he hung up, Rahim Kahn says, “There is a way to be good again” (13). This foreshadows Amir’s road to redemption throughout the novel. It symbolizes that after any form of wrongdoing in one’s life, there is always a way of atoning from sins and guilt. Human beings have the capacity to do evil, but they also have the capacity to redeem themselves from their evil acts. After introducing Amir’s heavy guilt feeling and crave for redemption, the story flashes back to his childhood so the reader can understand what led to this lifetime of
Amir does not have a strong relationship with his father, Baba. Like most children, Amir tries to figure out what he has done to cause the problem. He wonders if it is …show more content…
He receives a call from Rahim Kahn, calling from Pakistan, asking him to visit. Amir thinks to himself, “I knew it wasn’t just Rahim Kahn on the line. It was my past of unatoned sins” (12). Initially, the reader would not know what Amir has done to think this way, since this event is located on the very first page of chapter one. Under those circumstances, it is obvious that a phone call from Pakistan is significant enough to be forcing him to consider how he can deliver from his sins. Likewise, during the phone call, just before he hung up, Rahim Kahn says, “There is a way to be good again” (13). This foreshadows Amir’s road to redemption throughout the novel. It symbolizes that after any form of wrongdoing in one’s life, there is always a way of atoning from sins and guilt. Human beings have the capacity to do evil, but they also have the capacity to redeem themselves from their evil acts. After introducing Amir’s heavy guilt feeling and crave for redemption, the story flashes back to his childhood so the reader can understand what led to this lifetime of