Good people make bad decisions. Texting and driving is a bad choice, but just because you make this choice does not make you a bad person. Lying, sometimes you lie to help or save someone's feelings from the truth. Just because you make this choice does not make you a bad person. Stealing, "there is no act more wretched than stealing."(20) That is a bad choice that does make you a bad person according to Baba in the novel "The Kite Runner",but yet many people he admire, do in fact commit this "wretched crime"(Baba20) Some as close to him as his best friend. Rahim Khan who committed this crime when he stole Hassan and Amir's right to know they are brothers, and the truth about many other secrets he knew, or the boy next door who he wished his
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For this Rahim khan had a lot of guilt and before he died he wanted to get rid of that guilt and the information he knew and needed to share. So when he called Amir it was not just to help Amir, or to save Sohrab, but also to help himself. To free him of the secrets, lies , and information only he has known about for many years. In chapters 14-17 of the book Rahim Khan calls Amir and meets with him so he can free his knowledge and tell Amir all about the past. About how Hassan got married to Farzana and had his son Sohrab. "This is my wife..."Hassan tells Rahim on page 217 Rahim goes on to ask "when is the baby coming?" Later when Hassan lives with Rahim Khan the child is born "...you know all those years I lived in your fathers house...I was not alone for all of them. Hassan [and his family] lived with me." (Rahim Khan212) About how "...Ali...had been killed by a land mine two years before." (217). About when Hassan's mother collapsed in the driveway and became involved in his and his families lives, especially Sohrab's. "She sewed clothes for him, built him toys from scraps of wood, rags, and dried grass." (221-223) About Hassans letter to Amir and the picture sent with it. In the photo their was "A tall man dressed in a white turban and green-striped chapan [who] stood with a little boy..." …show more content…
Stole Hassan and his son Sohrabs innocents and Sohrabs right to feel clean and free of sin. When Amir and Hassan were young boys they had to deal with Assef a few times. The first time they got away, but Assef wanted pay back. When Amir and Hassan won the kite flying tournament. Hassan ran to get the final kite for Amir saying "For you a thousand times over!"(Hassan71) But it became Hassans worst nightmare. When Hassan got the kite, Assef decided he wanted it "... my pardon comes with a small price...it's only going to cost you that blue kite..." (Assef77) when Hassan would not give up the kite he promised to Amir things took a more drastic turn for the worst. "I've changed my mind...i'm letting you keep the kite...so it will always remind you of what im about to do." Assef told Hassan before he "...undid his own belt buckle... unzipped his jeans [and]... dropped his underwear."(81) After that day nothing was the same with Hassan "...it seems all he wants to do is sleep...he just wants to crawl under his blanket." (Ali85) He was not the sweet, smiling, and happy boy who was so innocent. He was just sad. The smile he always wore, was no more, and the close bond with Amir was gone, The same thing then happened to Sohrab, Hassan's son. Asseff sexually abused Sohrab when he was in the orphanage and made sohrab feel "Dirty."(Sohrab335) and that he does not want his parents to see him because he is "so dirty and full of sin."(335) It got so bad that
For this Rahim khan had a lot of guilt and before he died he wanted to get rid of that guilt and the information he knew and needed to share. So when he called Amir it was not just to help Amir, or to save Sohrab, but also to help himself. To free him of the secrets, lies , and information only he has known about for many years. In chapters 14-17 of the book Rahim Khan calls Amir and meets with him so he can free his knowledge and tell Amir all about the past. About how Hassan got married to Farzana and had his son Sohrab. "This is my wife..."Hassan tells Rahim on page 217 Rahim goes on to ask "when is the baby coming?" Later when Hassan lives with Rahim Khan the child is born "...you know all those years I lived in your fathers house...I was not alone for all of them. Hassan [and his family] lived with me." (Rahim Khan212) About how "...Ali...had been killed by a land mine two years before." (217). About when Hassan's mother collapsed in the driveway and became involved in his and his families lives, especially Sohrab's. "She sewed clothes for him, built him toys from scraps of wood, rags, and dried grass." (221-223) About Hassans letter to Amir and the picture sent with it. In the photo their was "A tall man dressed in a white turban and green-striped chapan [who] stood with a little boy..." …show more content…
Stole Hassan and his son Sohrabs innocents and Sohrabs right to feel clean and free of sin. When Amir and Hassan were young boys they had to deal with Assef a few times. The first time they got away, but Assef wanted pay back. When Amir and Hassan won the kite flying tournament. Hassan ran to get the final kite for Amir saying "For you a thousand times over!"(Hassan71) But it became Hassans worst nightmare. When Hassan got the kite, Assef decided he wanted it "... my pardon comes with a small price...it's only going to cost you that blue kite..." (Assef77) when Hassan would not give up the kite he promised to Amir things took a more drastic turn for the worst. "I've changed my mind...i'm letting you keep the kite...so it will always remind you of what im about to do." Assef told Hassan before he "...undid his own belt buckle... unzipped his jeans [and]... dropped his underwear."(81) After that day nothing was the same with Hassan "...it seems all he wants to do is sleep...he just wants to crawl under his blanket." (Ali85) He was not the sweet, smiling, and happy boy who was so innocent. He was just sad. The smile he always wore, was no more, and the close bond with Amir was gone, The same thing then happened to Sohrab, Hassan's son. Asseff sexually abused Sohrab when he was in the orphanage and made sohrab feel "Dirty."(Sohrab335) and that he does not want his parents to see him because he is "so dirty and full of sin."(335) It got so bad that