Theme Of Sins In The Kite Runner

Sin 's Ties Sin binds the characters together in The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini. Be the sin of their own doing or a sin done to them. Hosseini takes the hardships from Afghanistan to historic fiction story of a family in Kabul. During the novel the characters Baba and his son Amir are bound to the Hassan, a son of their servant, by sins of their past. Baba and Amir are united through this but are opposites and other aspects. Hosseini shows the correlations as well as the differences between Baba and Amir through the novel’s message: sins of the past have a grasp on a person throughout their life. The personalities of Baba and Amir are varied as well as similar. A major component of Baba 's personality is courage. Courage is the core of masculinity. Baba is a man, a brave, burly, fearless man. In the face of danger, Baba stands up to a Russian soldier wielding a gun to protect a young woman from assault or, more likely, rape. In contrast, Amir is controlled by his own cowardice. Put in a similar …show more content…
Baba and Amir both commit their sin early in their life. While Baba had a son with his servant 's wife, Amir watched this son get raped. Baba 's servant, Ali, is a brother figure to Baba. Ali was taken in by Baba 's family and grew up in their home. Hassan is a brother figure to Amir, "there [is] a brotherhood between people who had fed from the same breast, a kinship that not even time could break. Hassan and [Amir] fed from the same breasts." (11) Baba and Amir betrayed a brother. They are both reminded of their sin by the same boy, Hassan. Baba did his sin out of reckless and lustful behavior. Amir, on the other hand, caused his sin by doing just the opposite, he did nothing. Both sins are morally wrong. Rahim Khan, a close friend of Baba and a father figure for Amir, knows of both the sins. The father and son are connected by Hassan and their sin and both must deal with their