Kite Runner Guilt

Nicole Zurita
Ms.ibarra-Sdoeung
World literature
03/28/14
Guilt Leading to Good “A person who sacrifices to seek redemption finds freedom and peace” (Unknown), the message of the author explains that guilt usually imprisons our hearts from living a peaceful life, such as in the book The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini, A boy named Amir who has ghosts following him throughout his whole life since the winter of 1975 when he sacrifices his best friend Hassan and later on known as his half-brother, from being raped by some bullies to win his father’s love and acceptance, showing his father the kite Amir won. Since that day Amir remembers saying” In the winter of 1975 I saw Hassan run a kite of the last time” (2). In fact it is a life changing…show more content…
What Amir had done to atone for his mistakes after a long period of time is an act of braveness from someone that lived his entire life in darkness to finally search for the light of redemption in a way that spiritual forgiveness from the person affected and God will lead to harmony in his life now that he is good again, people that does not believe that Amir atoned for his sins after Hassan’s death, but they should believe that repentance is real when we make a mistakes such as every human in this world, and as a result it makes us better persons for not committing the same mistake, not mattering what that person had done there is always a path of peace and happiness. As being said in the bible, ”This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved as and sent his son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins” (1 John 4:10), this passage from the bible says that Christ truly did suffer for our sins and made a way for us to be forgiven, through repentance so we can feel clean, pure and worthy, whole and…show more content…
The Kite Runner. New York: Riverhead Books, 2003. Print
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