![]() Amir and Soraya illustrate romantic love, and their relationship plays an important part in Amir's character development. Ali, Baba, the General, Hassan, Rahim Khan, and even Amir demonstrate varying degrees of paternal love, each having expectations for his child and providing physical and/or emotional support. ![]() The two relationships thus demonstrate - albeit unknowingly to the characters - the nature of brotherly love, a love that includes jealousy and insecurity. Hassan's love for Amir is selfless, while Amir's for Hassan is mostly selfish. Thus, the only way complete forgiveness can occur is when one forgives oneself, and that will only occur when one has truly attempted to atone for the mistakes that one has made.Įvery relationship in The Kite Runner is strained at one point or another, thus providing multiple examples of the complexity of various types of love. Rahim Khan understands that it is God who readily forgives those who ask for forgiveness, but it is people who have a hard time forgiving. In his letter, he asks Amir to forgive him for keeping Baba's secret but also writes explicitly "God will forgive." Rahim Khan is confident that God will forgive all transgressions, and he encourages Amir to do so, too. Yet the person who speaks most poignantly about the nature of forgiveness is Rahim Khan. Baba's treatment of Hassan is his attempt at gaining public forgiveness for what he has not even publicly admitted to have done. Hassan's actions demonstrate that he forgives Amir's betrayal, although Amir needs to spend practically the entire novel to learn about the nature of forgiveness. Ideas about forgiveness permeate The Kite Runner. Only when Amir decides to take Sohrab to the United States and provide his nephew a chance at happiness and prosperity that was denied to his half-brother does Amir take the necessary steps toward atonement and redemption. Rescuing Sohrab from Assef is not enough either. Neither feelings of betrayal nor punishment are enough to redeem Amir. But Baba has been dead for fifteen years, and there is nothing he can do about the situation. When Amir finds out about Baba's betrayal of Ali (and subsequent betrayal of Hassan), he realizes that everything he thought he knew and understood about his father was false. That is why he still cringes every time Hassan's name is mentioned. But doing this clearly does nothing toward redeeming himself, and thus his guilt endures. For most of the novel, Amir attempts to deal with his guilt by avoiding it. Scholar Journal of Arts, Humanities and Social Science, 5, 179-187.Betrayal, which can be considered a form of sin, is enduring and ends up being cyclical in The Kite Runner. Crisis of Cultural Identity in Khaled Hosseini‘s The Kite Runner. Can the West Read? Western Readers, Orientalist Stereotypes, and the Sensational Response to The Kite Runner. International Review of Literary Studies, 2(1), 29-38. Can subaltern be heard: an analysis of the kite runner and the thousand splendid suns by Khalid Hosseini: can subaltern be heard. English Language and Literature Studies, 7(3), 90-93. ![]() A journey of self-actualization of Amir in The Kite Runner. A Study of Amir's Psychological Change in" The Kite Runner". Journal of Media Literacy Education, 5(1), 4. Exploring adolescents’ multimodal responses to The Kite Runner: Understanding how students use digital media for academic purposes. Translating Trauma in Khaled Hosseini's The Kite Runner. Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 45(4), 389-400. To be good (again): The Kite Runner as allegory of global ethics. Afghanistan meets the amazon: reading the kite runner in America.
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