The Kite Runner Essay -- Literary Analysis, Khaled Hosseini

There is a track to be sober again. By putting this quote at the very head start beginning of the book, The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini has introduced a theme that goes throughout the study of the book, redemption. Every amour has a path that leads to the final destination, sometimes there are much than one path to go. It depends on people to choose which one that worthy for them. In the book, by telling the story, the seed has shown a pass to redemption. Baba, Sanaubar and Amir, contrasting characters in the book represent different types of people in reality, stories of how they would do to redeem their mistakes. Redemption, the definition of this term is a controversial subject. Through the book, the author shows his side of understanding the word. Redemption is an act of goodness from the regretful heart, from guilt trip of the past. A person who had made a mistake before would be corroded slowly by his regret and the pain that haunts him days by days. However, there i s a way to be good again, he may have killed a life, but he can lay aside another life to pay sand for the sin. Thats how redemption simply works. pot could not change the past therefore, they would do a good thing that brings to a better future, which makes them become better people than the ones in the past. The road to redemption is not from when the person makes up for his guilt, but it starts when he savor regretful, a difficult start, and ends with a relief of redemption. The author puts characters into different situations of sins and how they reach to resolve problems, as examples for his ideas of road to redemption.For instance, Baba is always an honorable man in peoples eyes. They admire him for his power, they are jealous with his wealth and they love ... ...uilty feeling privileged people. It is pointless for doing thousands of good things in the present when they could not change a sin in their past. Redemption can be considered as a comfort, that gives people t he illusion, a feeling of believing that they could pay back for their sins. However, it is not true what has been done could not be inversed again. For example, Amir may have saved Sohrabs life by rescuing the boy from Assef, but that is what he does for Sohrab, not Hassan. His half-brother had still been raped by Assef, he got blastoff and already died. That truth is unchangeable. In fact, redemption is an action that may be kind of selfishness because most parts of redemption are all intimately sinners, when they try to make themselves feel better. Therefore, the authors statement of the redemption, there is a way to be good again, is not always true.