Confirmation to support this is when David reveals "did I wonder what might happen if I killed my uncle". David managed to see some good in people including his father. Watson demonstrates the life of David Hayden growing up, and realizing later what a great role model he had in his father. David saw his father as a weak man and he thought his perfect role model was Frank, which is seen as he said "not manly figure like uncle Frank". He felt let down in his father, as he didn't arrest anyone or carry a gun, "And that disappointed me at times".
Grant is a middle aged black man who knows of all the racism in his community and he let's it's affect him by hating his life and almost everything in it. Grant is forced to visit Jefferson from his aunt and Emma. When Grant begins to visit Jefferson things don't go so well. After a certain visit Grant realizes that he wasn't so angry anymore and he couldn't stay mad at anything for long (Gaines 125). Also, Grant used to be a very hostile man and he didn't care for anything but from visiting Jefferson he started to care about his life and the things in it, he dedicated his whole self to helping Jefferson become a man and he would get into arguments defending his choices with his aunt even if she was very important to him and they never fought.
Baba’s biggest admirer is his own son, Amir has always looked up to Baba and wanted him to care about him and love him. Amir feels as though his own father doesn’t even love him because Amir’s mother died while giving birth to him. People in the town envy the plentiful life that Amir and his father have. They have a nice house, a Ford Mustang, an orphanage, and plenty of money. In the book The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini uses
As a result, he stays away from Hassan and rejects to be with him. Hassan is always looking out for Amir and asks if there is something wrong with him. Because of his feelings of guilt, Amir can’t stand being with Hassan anymore and he needs to escape. To get rid of Hassan, Amir first asks his father for new servants. His father denies him and gets angry about it.
Kite Runner Study Guide After Amir wins the kite tournament, his loyal companion or servant Hassan runs after the kite that Amir cut down as a trophy, and as he runs away Amir says to him “don’t come back empty handed” and Hassan says “for you a thousand times over”, and that’s when he runs into Assef the racist bully who wants Amir’s trophy kite; when Hassan refuses, Assef rapes him while Amir watches cowardly. At the end, when Amir goes to run the kite for Sohrab he says “for you a thousand times over” which is the same thing Hassan said to Amir. The author chose these frame sequence to show how Amir the person who always ran from the truth and problems, finally owned up to his mistake and returned all the good deeds that Hassan had done for him by doing the same for his son. Amir and Hassan were very close to each other but at the same time Amir always acted like he was better than him, but deep inside I think Amir felt like he was a lot lower than him because his honesty, bravery and loyalty was no match to Hassan’s. Amir also didn’t like Hassan because he overheard his dad talking to Rahim Khan about how Hassan always has to protect Amir when kids pick on him and how Amir never stands up for himself.
Living the life of a coward and the betrayal of his best friend calls for Amir to redeem himself. However, Amir finds out that no amount of redemption can fully erase his past. In The Kite Runner, it starts out with Amir receiving a phone call from his old friend Rahim Khan. His friend Rahim says, “There is a way to be good again” (2). This implies that Rahim knows of Amir’s shameful past, and that he wants Amir to redeem himself.
Sam Stearns Summer Reading Assignment Chapter One of How To Read Literature Like a Professor all about a little boy named amir he is the son of baba, this took place in the winter time in Afghanistan . Amir was joining a kite runner tournament with his friend Hassan. Before this tournament meant Amir and Hassan were on the street and these men come over and take and rape him and Amir just sat here and watched and didn't know what to do and Amir feels regret for that and so know he think he need to make his father proud of him. This tournament was going to be one of the biggest tournaments held in 25 years. Amir every time he was in a tournament he always wanted to will to make his father proud.
Kite Runner- Betrayal And Redemption In the novel, “The Kite Runner”, written by Khaled Hosseini, is a story of a twelve year old Afghan boy, Amir seeking acceptance and approval from his father by entering a kite-fighting tournament along with his servant and friend, Hassan. On that same day a tragedy tears the two boys apart forever. "The Kite Runner" tells us, through Rahim Khan that, "true redemption is when guilt leads to good again..." Throughout the book there are many characters like Amir and Baba that have committed sins and subsequently attempted to redeem themselves. Amir betrayed Hassan several times in this novel. However, the two most important instances were when he did not help Hassan during the rape and when he framed Hassan for stealing the watch and money.
The symbols that help out the better understanding of the characters are the kite, a soccer ball and brass knuckles. In the novel the kite symbolizes the deception of Amir and Hassan’s friendship and the redemption for Amir. The kite is the bond between Amir and Hassan; it brings them together like brothers. For instance, when Assef and the two boys had Hassan trapped in the corner of an ally and demanded him to hand over the kite but Hassan responded with, “Amir Agha won the tournament and I ran this kite for him. I ran it fairly” (P.77) and later got raped.
It is because of this that he betrays Hassan, and says, “He was just a Hazara, wasn’t he?” (p. 77). Later in life, he regrets this, realizing that love is more important than anything else. Amir gets a chance for redemption when he finds out Hassan has a son, Sohrab. So Amir rescues Sohrab from Assef, adopts him, and takes him back to America. In America, they attend an Afghan party, where a kite fighting competition takes place.