Amir discovers how badly he treated Hassan in their past, that he wants to make up for it. I personally do not believe that Amir finds redemption because although he wants to redeem himself, he is only thinking of himself again. He never adopts Sohrab out of the goodness of his heart but
However, through an attempt to overcome the shame of his past, Amir is able to find comfort and hope. By the end of The Kite Runner, Amir has become kamyab through the peace and renewal he finds in reconciling his past. Sohrab helps Amir overcome the guilt he felt for Hassan’s rape. At the beginning of the novel, Khaled Hosseini introduces Amir’s unhappiness that follows this guilt. Even as an old man narrating the story, Amir is still haunted by the memories of Hassan’s rape.
While this selfless sense can be though of by some as not enough to make him the heroic character as I am setting him out to be, it is not only this characteristic itself, but rather the actions of sleeplessness in its entirety throughout the novel. These actions are seen towards the end of the novel when Amir goes back to Afghanistan from his life in America, which in itself is already the discussed sense of selflessness. However, it doesn’t end there, he goes back to save Sohrab, Hassan’s son. While Amir might have been doing this soley because of the guilt he still has with the rape incident with Hassan when he was a child, it still shows his heroic actions, even though he is trying to redeem himself for not saving Hassan as a child, but instead saving his son years later. These actions thus far set up Amir to be seen as a heroic figure in the novel, but as the novel progresses even further he heroic symbolism becomes more and more backed up and confirmed.
He calls himself a coward because he does not stand up for himself or others when the time calls, until the end of the story when he saves Sohrab. However, other people show courage throughout their entire part of the book. The main people who do this are Baba, and Hassan. The first act of courage that you really get to see and understand is when Assef and his boys are hassling Amir and Hassan. Amir tries to talk to the older boys, and make them leave them alone.
The Gift of Guilt Friedrich Nietzche stated, “What was silent in the father speaks in the son, and often I found in the son, the unveiled secret of the father”. Baba kept a secret from everyone and this ended up causing Amir to treat Hassan differently. By reflecting Baba’s actions, Baba’s secret was unveiled through Amir. Amir tried to get his father’s approval and tried to be more like his Baba, but he thought he never would. The truth is that Amir is more like Baba than he knew.
Douglas says that he had to be victorious, “because [Douglas’] aim had not been to injure [Covey], but prevent his injuring [him].” (Douglas, p.186) This brutal struggle, Douglass recalls, "rekindled in my breast the smouldering embers of liberty (. . .) and revived a sense of my own manhood" (p. 187). From this incident on, Douglas is hardly physically punished and every attempt of brutality is unsuccessful.
Kite runner shows the equally damaging actions of both Amir and Baba, towards their loved ones and society. However, Hosseini puts it forward that there is always a “way to be good again”, Additionally, it highlights Amir as the lesser of the two evils because of Baba’s lack of
Moving on all these aforementioned events eventually became met with foregiveness. Ideas about forgiveness permeate The Kite Runner. 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. Even with Amir not being the best friend he could to be to Hassan he still was impeccably loyal, “For you a thousand times over Amir Agha!”(165). Baba's treatment of Hassan is his attempt at gaining public forgiveness for what he has not even publicly admitted to have done.
A Look Inside Guy Montag Any goodness spread on earth has its own reward after its punishment. In Ray Bradbury’s novel Fahrenheit 451 Guy Montag is a prime example of this. In this novel Montag, the protagonist sets out on a mission of his deepest desires to rebel against the status quo and find a meaningful way to live his life. Montag undergoes a major transformation as a character, and ultimately tries to revive lost pieces of civilization, his attempt rebels against him leaving him with nothing but the internal thrive and desire to do the right thing. Before the readers eyes, Montag transforms from a person who had no thought process to someone who starts to realize the wrong doings in his civilization, and analytically changes his way of life.
With perseverance and dedication Alexie was able to save his own life and break down the doors of the stereotype of being just another uneducated Indian boy. He places himself in the shoes of a hero. Saving lives through the story of his struggle and going beyond what was expected of him as an Indian boy. Because Alexie was smart and arrogant enough to stand up against the stereotype, he was lucky to make it out alive. He had broken down the barriers of the preconceived notion that Indians were uneducated and through reading he had beaten the odds.