Khaled Hosseini’s “Kite Runner” brilliantly illustrates the story of a young boy named Amir going through his life and the troubles he carries. Redemption is a key theme throughout the book, of which Amir goes through the entire book trying to amend for the sins he committed as a child . This also brings out another theme that goes hand in hand with redemption which is forgiveness something that takes Amir a majority of the novel in order to fully understand. In order for Amir to come to terms what has happened in his past he must truly attempt to atone for his sins in order forgive himself.
Redemption is something that Amir craves to obtain he goes through a majority of the novel reflecting on what he did when he was just a child. The first …show more content…
Here Amir is looking for a chance to get Sohrab to enjoy life and feel free while not living in a shadow of the past as Amir did, also looking for a way to forgive himself by giving Sohrab something his father never truly had. “It was only a smile, nothing more. It didn’t make everything alright. It didn’t make anything alright. Only a smile. A tiny thing. A leaf in the woods, shaking in the wake of a startled bird’s flight. But I’ll take it”(371). Amir has finally come to forgive himself for what he did in his childhood and is now working towards a brighter future with Sohrab. His redemption is yet to come as he states that it made nothing alright and uses a metaphor to compare the smile to a small leaf scattered in a wake of other leaves that represent the sins he has done in his life as well as the good. Showing that in his eyes he has a long way to go in order to truly redeem himself for what has happened, but that he has come to be able to forgive himself and move on from his past into the light of the world he lives in along with Sohrab.
The novel has shown hardships and overcomings through Amir and has given a connection between redemption and forgiveness and how they intertwine. Going through Amir’s life Hosseini shows how in order to achieve true forgiveness you must honestly attempt to atone for the sins that have been
Redemption is something that Amir craves to obtain he goes through a majority of the novel reflecting on what he did when he was just a child. The first …show more content…
Here Amir is looking for a chance to get Sohrab to enjoy life and feel free while not living in a shadow of the past as Amir did, also looking for a way to forgive himself by giving Sohrab something his father never truly had. “It was only a smile, nothing more. It didn’t make everything alright. It didn’t make anything alright. Only a smile. A tiny thing. A leaf in the woods, shaking in the wake of a startled bird’s flight. But I’ll take it”(371). Amir has finally come to forgive himself for what he did in his childhood and is now working towards a brighter future with Sohrab. His redemption is yet to come as he states that it made nothing alright and uses a metaphor to compare the smile to a small leaf scattered in a wake of other leaves that represent the sins he has done in his life as well as the good. Showing that in his eyes he has a long way to go in order to truly redeem himself for what has happened, but that he has come to be able to forgive himself and move on from his past into the light of the world he lives in along with Sohrab.
The novel has shown hardships and overcomings through Amir and has given a connection between redemption and forgiveness and how they intertwine. Going through Amir’s life Hosseini shows how in order to achieve true forgiveness you must honestly attempt to atone for the sins that have been