The Kite Runner Analysis

From the wealthiest neighborhood in Kabul to the poverty of San Francisco, Khaled Hosseini creates an unforgettable novel base on salvation, which goes beyond cultures and time in The Kite Runner. The kite runner is a captivating story about betrayal and redemption, following two motherless boys who learn to grow up together. This novel is considered to be a banned book because of its explicit content such as offensive language, religious viewpoints, and sexually explicit scenes, but despite a lot of its graphic material, The Kite Runner remains to be a relevant text for students to study today because of its timeless themes, teaching valuable life lessons that enables students to use their knowledge from the book in present and future references.
In the novel, Amir tries to deal with his guilt after witnessing Hassan being harassed by Assef by avoiding it. This did not help his position in redeeming himself from his guilt, especially after Hassan’s death, but under time he began to acknowledge his faults, and found a way to repay Hassan for his mistakes. “…I realized how much of who I was, what I was, had been defined by Baba and the marks he had left on people’s lives… Now he was gone. Baba couldn’t show me the way anymore; I’d have to find it on my own.” (Hosseini
Every relationship in the novel shows a different type of love and how complex it is. For an example, Hassan’s love for Amir is selfless, while Amir’s love towards Hassan is the exact opposite. This is shown through many moments in the story where Hassan shows gratitude and loyalty while Amir thinks only of himself. These two relationships show the nature of brotherly love. This type of love evolves around protectiveness, insecurity, and jealousy because in Amir’s case, he is insecure about the way his father sees him as a son, and because he shows more love towards Hassan than towards him, he grows to become jealous over Hassan’s relationship with