Kite Runner Essay
Madi Harris
McGough
In the novel The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini, the reader experiences the balance between friendship and betrayal with the main characters. Two major friendships happen in The Kite Runner and one of them is between the narrator, Amir and his father; and the other is between Amir and his childhood best friend, Hassan. The novel is about a journey that Amir makes with his father and Hassan to right his wrongs and to “be good again” (pg 2). In order for Amir to maintain his father’s friendship, he finds it necessary to betray his best friend. He may have been able to keep his father’s friendship but he would sacrifice the sole attention he would get with Hassan out of the way. Amir spends most of his …show more content…
Rahim Khan had told Amir that he needed to see him soon and he had something important to tell him. “Come. There is a way to be good again” (pg 192). Amir turned this line over and over in his head for hours before deciding that he had to go see Rahim Khan. For all of the years that Amir felt his father didn’t pay any attention to him, it was Rahim Khan who would be there to listen about Amir’s day and read his short stories and praise him. Amir owed it to Rahim Khan and to his past secrets and lies to go back to Afghanistan and see what Rahim Khan needed to tell him. When Amir arrived to see Rahim Khan he found out that his father’s beloved best friend was very ill and dying. He also learned that Hassan had actually been Amir’s half-brother which only made Amir angry that his father and Rahim Khan had kept this a secret from him for all those years. Amir learned that Hassan told Rahim Khan everything and he knew about all of the lies. This is why he said on the phone that it wasn’t too late to make everything okay again. Rahim Khan sent Amir on a journey to find Hassan’s orphaned son. In the end, Amir had saved Hassan’s son and taken him back to America so he and his wife could adopt the
Madi Harris
McGough
In the novel The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini, the reader experiences the balance between friendship and betrayal with the main characters. Two major friendships happen in The Kite Runner and one of them is between the narrator, Amir and his father; and the other is between Amir and his childhood best friend, Hassan. The novel is about a journey that Amir makes with his father and Hassan to right his wrongs and to “be good again” (pg 2). In order for Amir to maintain his father’s friendship, he finds it necessary to betray his best friend. He may have been able to keep his father’s friendship but he would sacrifice the sole attention he would get with Hassan out of the way. Amir spends most of his …show more content…
Rahim Khan had told Amir that he needed to see him soon and he had something important to tell him. “Come. There is a way to be good again” (pg 192). Amir turned this line over and over in his head for hours before deciding that he had to go see Rahim Khan. For all of the years that Amir felt his father didn’t pay any attention to him, it was Rahim Khan who would be there to listen about Amir’s day and read his short stories and praise him. Amir owed it to Rahim Khan and to his past secrets and lies to go back to Afghanistan and see what Rahim Khan needed to tell him. When Amir arrived to see Rahim Khan he found out that his father’s beloved best friend was very ill and dying. He also learned that Hassan had actually been Amir’s half-brother which only made Amir angry that his father and Rahim Khan had kept this a secret from him for all those years. Amir learned that Hassan told Rahim Khan everything and he knew about all of the lies. This is why he said on the phone that it wasn’t too late to make everything okay again. Rahim Khan sent Amir on a journey to find Hassan’s orphaned son. In the end, Amir had saved Hassan’s son and taken him back to America so he and his wife could adopt the