Comparing The Kite Runner And A Tale Of Two Cities

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Every single day people make hundreds of choices. From what to eat, or what to wear, but most importantly how to respond to specific circumstances. How we choose to respond, whether it be an evil or a just choice, can affect our entire lives. In both novels A Tale of Two Cities, by Charles Dickens, and The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini, characters are faced with the opportunity to make a choice. This choice could lead to their happiness or their demise. Dickens and Hosseini both demonstrate that by choosing to do the right thing, when it may not be the easiest thing nor the decision you want to make, is most beneficial to you.
In A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Darnay decides that “‘This property and France are lost to me’... ‘I renounce
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After he learns that his half brother Hassan left behind a young son, Amir must choose whether or not to save him. At first he is apprehensive about rescuing the boy, even telling Rahim Khan “‘I can’t go to Kabul… I have a wife in America, a home, a career, and a family’” (Hosseini 226). He realizes how hard and dangerous it will be to go and find the boy in the Taliban controlled city of Kabul, but then Amir comes to a realization of “...how could I pack up and go back home when my actions may have cost Hassan a chance at those very same things?” (Hosseini 226). He knows in his heart that saving Sohrab is the right thing. By saving him Amir can start to repay for all of those horrible choices he made as a child. By choosing to do the right thing, not only does Sohrab begin to feel happy again, but Amir as well. The change in the happiness of both boys is not immediate thing, but a slow and steady process. While they are kite fighting at a picnic Amir “... looked down at Sohrab. One corner of his mouth curled up just so. A smile… It was only a smile, nothing more… Because when spring comes and melts the snow one flake at a time, and maybe I just witnessed the first flake melting” (Hosseini 371). Although this does not mean that everything is now perfect, but it signifies the start of a new beginning. In the end by choosing to do the right thing benefits

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