Redemption In Khaled Hosseini's The Kite Runner
The novel The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini presents an enriching story about love, guilt, and redemption. Hosseini uses real, relatable characters by recognizing and honoring the flaw in human nature. He takes you on an eye-opening journey of self-discovery and teaches us that good can always bloom from bad.
In the first part of the book there is a kite tournament, which the characters Amir and Hassan attend. In the competition many brilliantly colored kites with razor sharp string, fly magnificently through the air while trying to cut each other out of the sky. When a kite is cut, it is the job of the kite runner to retrieve it and claim it as their prize. Hassan is Amir 's kite runner, but instead of claiming it as his own he runs the kite for Amir. Throughout the book, Amir is trying to find the kite runner in himself. He is yearning for the freedom and righteousness that he saw in Hassan 's soul. But he is unable to do that until he can redeem his past.
The road to redemption is a long and uncomfortable one, but like the kite tournament it is also very beautiful. Amir 's journey into the heart of Afghanistan isn 't by any …show more content…
But although Sohrab eats and sleeps in the same house as the two of them, their parent-child relationship is very small. The boy spends most of his time in bed and barely opens his mouth. But somehow in the melancholy of this empty relationship, the author 's last few words leave you knowing that everything will turn out fine. "It was only a smile, nothing more. It didn 't make everything all right. It didn 't make anything all right. Only a smile. A tiny thing. A leaf in the woods, shaking in the wake of a startled bird 's flight. But I 'll take it. With open arms. Because when spring comes, it melts the snow one flake at a time, and maybe I just witnessed the first flake melting" (Hosseini
In the first part of the book there is a kite tournament, which the characters Amir and Hassan attend. In the competition many brilliantly colored kites with razor sharp string, fly magnificently through the air while trying to cut each other out of the sky. When a kite is cut, it is the job of the kite runner to retrieve it and claim it as their prize. Hassan is Amir 's kite runner, but instead of claiming it as his own he runs the kite for Amir. Throughout the book, Amir is trying to find the kite runner in himself. He is yearning for the freedom and righteousness that he saw in Hassan 's soul. But he is unable to do that until he can redeem his past.
The road to redemption is a long and uncomfortable one, but like the kite tournament it is also very beautiful. Amir 's journey into the heart of Afghanistan isn 't by any …show more content…
But although Sohrab eats and sleeps in the same house as the two of them, their parent-child relationship is very small. The boy spends most of his time in bed and barely opens his mouth. But somehow in the melancholy of this empty relationship, the author 's last few words leave you knowing that everything will turn out fine. "It was only a smile, nothing more. It didn 't make everything all right. It didn 't make anything all right. Only a smile. A tiny thing. A leaf in the woods, shaking in the wake of a startled bird 's flight. But I 'll take it. With open arms. Because when spring comes, it melts the snow one flake at a time, and maybe I just witnessed the first flake melting" (Hosseini