the kite runner

Rhonda Sharp
Jillian Daly
English 50
6 December 2007
My Fathers Son
Throughout the novel The increase Runner written by Khaled Hosseini, Hosseini explores the issues of atonement. Baba a wealthy gentlemans gentleman and his son amir lived in a beautiful come toice in Afghanistan while their servants Ali and Hassan lived in a mud hut. amirs mother died giving birth to him and Hassans mother ran off with traveling singers and dancers. Baba and Ali had grown up together. Ali was like family although Ali was Babas servant. emeer and Hassan had fed from the same breast. amir had nothing in joint with his father Baba and he was always looking for his acceptance. In Afghanistan, it was a winter tradition to hold a increase-fighting tournament and amir being twelve years old found this as his opportunity to gain his fathers acceptance by winning the tournament. ameer and Hassan prepare for the tournament, not knowing this day will repair him for the rest of his life. There are two guesss which clearly immortalise the theme of sin and atonement. In the first scene amir runs away and leaves Hassan alone to sacrifice himself for a kite. The second scene is when emeer finally feels free from his childhood guilt for betraying Hassan, by making things right with Sohrab, Hassans son.



We can clearly expect in these two scenes, a person can observe from their past mistakes to make the future better for themselves as healthy as others.
In chapter 7 after winning the kite tournament, Hassan and Amir embrace. Knowing that they need the blue kite as a trophy Hassan runs off to bring it back to Amir. Amir goes looking for Hassan and finds him in the alley guarding the kite from three boys, Wali, Kamal, and Assef. Assef had told Hassan to shew up the kite and he would let him go. Knowing how such(prenominal) the kite meant to Amir, Hassan sacrificed himself and was raped by Assef as the other boys held him down. Amir having the opportunity to stand up for Hassan, just ran the other way. Amir confesses to himself:
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