The Kite Runner Redemption Quotes

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Everyone has made mistakes during some point in their life, although there have been a few mistakes that people considered “I have done something extremely horrible… How will I be able to fix this?” and that is where redemption comes along. According to dictionary.com Redemption is “ An act of redeeming or atoning for a fault or a mistake, or the state of being redeemed.” and in the historical fiction novel The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini, Amir has done disgusting deeds to Hassan just as a result of Hassan being noticed more often by Baba than Amir was. The biggest deed Amir wanted to redeem himself was for the night Hassan was a raped with Amir doing nothing but watching horrified. It has come to a point where near the end of the novel,

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