Does time heal pain, or does pain heal time?
“There is no monster, he’d said, just water. Except he’d been wrong about that. There was a monster in the lake. It had grabbed Hassan by the ankles, dragged him to the murky bottom. I was that monster.” (Hosseini 86). To start off, In the story The Kite Runner, the main character Amir, has indeed betrayed his best friend (brother) Hassan by allowing him to be raped by Assef, the antagonist. After a harsh twenty-six years of regret, Sohrab, his nephew, is found starving and being used as a sex slave. This story is a prime example of acts of betrayal that time will never fix, from his brother being abused, to his nephew, and himself, he one day realizes the unfortunate circumstances that has risen …show more content…
“Looking back now, I realize I have been peeking into that deserted alley for the last twenty-six years” (1). The conflict starts at page one, it was Amirs fault that Hassan was raped, and it carried with him for 26 years. What he craved after that was punishment, he wanted to feel the pain of what he had did to balance the equation, and he took it to a very intense level. “I hit him with another pomegranate…’hit me back!’... I wished he would. I wished he would give me the punishment I craved, so I could sleep at night” (92). At this point in the story, he regrets not helping, the whole reason any of it happened is because Amir wanted to be closer to Baba. Due to him winning the final flag, Baba felt much pride for his young boy, and for once spent a lot more time with him.“I didn 't want any of it--it was all blood money; Baba would have never thrown me a party like that if I hadn 't won the competition.” (101). But as he threw the party for his victorious son, that 's not what he wanted. He did not feel that it was right that he got a party for what had to happen in that alley, nor did he feel like the party was centered towards him. Which leads back to the same question, was it worth it? What happens in twenty-six years to remove these traumatic feelings? “Another rib snapped, this time left lower. What was funny was that, for the first time since the winter of 1975, I felt at peace.” …show more content…
The book taught a valuable lesson - time cannot heal pain, but pain can heal time. If Hassan wouldn 't have gotten raped, he wouldn 't have ever left and Amir wouldn 't have ever had to go rescue Sohrab from Afghanistan. The last twenty-six years of regret was relieved, ironically, by pain. The sorrow of all three of them is what binded the pages together, there wouldn 't have been a story, there wouldn 't have been a lesson to learn. Lastly, this story is telling us ultimately, hurt can heal you, it can shape you to eventually be better than you ever were
“There is no monster, he’d said, just water. Except he’d been wrong about that. There was a monster in the lake. It had grabbed Hassan by the ankles, dragged him to the murky bottom. I was that monster.” (Hosseini 86). To start off, In the story The Kite Runner, the main character Amir, has indeed betrayed his best friend (brother) Hassan by allowing him to be raped by Assef, the antagonist. After a harsh twenty-six years of regret, Sohrab, his nephew, is found starving and being used as a sex slave. This story is a prime example of acts of betrayal that time will never fix, from his brother being abused, to his nephew, and himself, he one day realizes the unfortunate circumstances that has risen …show more content…
“Looking back now, I realize I have been peeking into that deserted alley for the last twenty-six years” (1). The conflict starts at page one, it was Amirs fault that Hassan was raped, and it carried with him for 26 years. What he craved after that was punishment, he wanted to feel the pain of what he had did to balance the equation, and he took it to a very intense level. “I hit him with another pomegranate…’hit me back!’... I wished he would. I wished he would give me the punishment I craved, so I could sleep at night” (92). At this point in the story, he regrets not helping, the whole reason any of it happened is because Amir wanted to be closer to Baba. Due to him winning the final flag, Baba felt much pride for his young boy, and for once spent a lot more time with him.“I didn 't want any of it--it was all blood money; Baba would have never thrown me a party like that if I hadn 't won the competition.” (101). But as he threw the party for his victorious son, that 's not what he wanted. He did not feel that it was right that he got a party for what had to happen in that alley, nor did he feel like the party was centered towards him. Which leads back to the same question, was it worth it? What happens in twenty-six years to remove these traumatic feelings? “Another rib snapped, this time left lower. What was funny was that, for the first time since the winter of 1975, I felt at peace.” …show more content…
The book taught a valuable lesson - time cannot heal pain, but pain can heal time. If Hassan wouldn 't have gotten raped, he wouldn 't have ever left and Amir wouldn 't have ever had to go rescue Sohrab from Afghanistan. The last twenty-six years of regret was relieved, ironically, by pain. The sorrow of all three of them is what binded the pages together, there wouldn 't have been a story, there wouldn 't have been a lesson to learn. Lastly, this story is telling us ultimately, hurt can heal you, it can shape you to eventually be better than you ever were