Analytical Essay On The Kite Runner

“‘A boy who won’t stand up for himself becomes a man who can’t stand up to anything.’” (Hosseini 22). In Khaled Hosseini’s historical drama novel The Kite Runner, readers meet and follow the lives of two boys growing up in the late 1900’s of Afghanistan: Amir and Hassan. With the young boys growing up in different circumstances, Amir as a wealthy Pashtun and Hassan as a servant Hazara, their lives are distinctly different. After witnessing a severe case of bullying towards Hassan due to the difference in social class, Amir is unable to deal with the guilt of running away instead of stepping forward to protect his friend, leading to his decision to drive his servant away and to move to America afterwards. After an extensive time without contact with Hassan, Amir suddenly receives notice that his childhood friend has been killed along with his wife, leaving behind his son, Sohrab, as an orphan. As a way to make amends for the disservice towards Hassan, Amir decides to travel back to Afghanistan and adopt Sohrab. Through literary devices of characterization and …show more content…
However through the pain and misery of his silence and disregard towards his sins, he finally chooses to change his cowardly self when faced with the dilemma of either choosing to run away or to stand up against forces opposing him in order to save the life of another as a chance of redemption. With time, the main character learns of the weight of his sins and strived to redeem himself by accomplishing acts of kindness, albeit knowing that his crime towards his childhood friend could never be truly forgiven. Though after years of pain from his childhood, Amir is finally able to have a chance at redemption by saving Sohrab and becomes the kite runner who no longer ran from his fears, but instead stood up and tackled them in order to atone for the wrongdoings in his