The Kite Runner
Sirwan Zarifnejad
Essay
We have heard that ignorance is bliss, but that is just an illusion. When people fear the truth secrets are kept and lies are being told. With those secrets and lies you live in a false world. Eventually one must deal with the truth and awake from the ignorance in secrets. When the truth comes out the safety that secrets provide disappears. People realize then that they rather handle the truth when they see things how they really are. In Khaled Hosseini´s novel The Kite Runner, the characters caused pain to the people around them by keeping secrets. Suffering from guilt and realizing the consequences of the secrets they learn that the truth would have caused less pain. Amir suffers richly from guilt because the huge secret he holds creates pain through guilt. It becomes clear that Amir have this guilt when he visits Whahid´s family and Whahid says to Amir, “You are an honorable man, Amir aga”. (238) Amir “cringes inside” when he hear that. Deep inside he was bothered by this compliment. The more lies he tells to disguise his true nature the more the true comes knocking on his door, as a result he is suffering from more pain. The conflict of truths and lies creates the guilt and the conflict will not end until the truth prevails. Amir gets stuck in this cycle of lies and eventually the pain reaches a level that he cannot take it anymore physically. Amir could have been spared this pain if he had told the truth earlier and making a closure for himself. Another character who kept secrets and avoided telling the truth was Baba. Baba never told the truth to Hassan that he was his real father. If he had done that Hassan probably would be near him instead he leaved and they never saw each other again. And this caused him a massive pain. This is another example of how harshly you suffer from the aftermath of secrets. Instead of telling the truth to the people around him he keeps them ignorant, because Baba thinks it is what is best for
Essay
We have heard that ignorance is bliss, but that is just an illusion. When people fear the truth secrets are kept and lies are being told. With those secrets and lies you live in a false world. Eventually one must deal with the truth and awake from the ignorance in secrets. When the truth comes out the safety that secrets provide disappears. People realize then that they rather handle the truth when they see things how they really are. In Khaled Hosseini´s novel The Kite Runner, the characters caused pain to the people around them by keeping secrets. Suffering from guilt and realizing the consequences of the secrets they learn that the truth would have caused less pain. Amir suffers richly from guilt because the huge secret he holds creates pain through guilt. It becomes clear that Amir have this guilt when he visits Whahid´s family and Whahid says to Amir, “You are an honorable man, Amir aga”. (238) Amir “cringes inside” when he hear that. Deep inside he was bothered by this compliment. The more lies he tells to disguise his true nature the more the true comes knocking on his door, as a result he is suffering from more pain. The conflict of truths and lies creates the guilt and the conflict will not end until the truth prevails. Amir gets stuck in this cycle of lies and eventually the pain reaches a level that he cannot take it anymore physically. Amir could have been spared this pain if he had told the truth earlier and making a closure for himself. Another character who kept secrets and avoided telling the truth was Baba. Baba never told the truth to Hassan that he was his real father. If he had done that Hassan probably would be near him instead he leaved and they never saw each other again. And this caused him a massive pain. This is another example of how harshly you suffer from the aftermath of secrets. Instead of telling the truth to the people around him he keeps them ignorant, because Baba thinks it is what is best for