Emotions In The Kite Runner

A man is insensible to appreciate prosperity until he has tasted adversity. Adverse situations shape an individual’s identity and play a significant role in one’s life by shaping personal values, determining one’s own potential and self worth. Khaled Hosseini conveys how hardships shape individuals identities through the characters of Amir, Baba, Hassan and Ali in his novel The Kite Runner. Like every individual they go through a series of incidents and hardships that shape who they become and how well they deal with struggles in

The kite runner is best described as a story of despair in happiness. Walter Savage Landor once said “we are no longer happy as soon as we wish to be happier." Being in despair means ‘to be without hope’ and even thought hope can be a bad thing sometimes hope is all we have. People with cancer hope to survive it and beat the cancer, I hope to pass my classes this year and Amir hopes to impress his father, and later on in life to save the little boy ( Hassan's son ). Too much happiness tends to put people in despair.

Leo Tolstoy once wrote, “All happy families are like one another; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” All families come across problems they have to face, but in the end, they will be overcome. In Khaled Hosseini’s novel The Kite Runner, the source of unhappiness within Baba and Amir’s family is their lack of understanding between each other. The characters experience a unique level of unhappiness due to the dark secrets of betrayal each harbor.

This quote symbolizes a significant change of heart for Amir. Not only does he accept the notion that Hassan was perhaps Baba’s true son, he also expresses forgiveness for his father’s deceitful actions. Amir realizes that clinging onto the imperfections of the past will not help him find peace within himself. This new perception of Hassan and Baba surprises readers, and even Amir himself. After years of many jealous attempts to win Baba’s affection from Hassan, Amir finally takes an enormous step on the road to true

Baba, Amir’s father teaches him this lesson, “When you tell a lie, you steal someone's right to the truth. When you cheat, you steal the right to fairness... there is no act more wretched than stealing.” Amir tries to live by this rule his father has taught him. Later in the novel, Amir learns that Hassan is his half brother and that Baba had slept with Hassan’s mother. Baba betrayed Hassan, Amir, and Ali, possibly even himself. Amir strived to be like his father when he found out what his father had done he was angry with him. Amir wanted redemption for what his father had done, so he took in Sohrab.

“And the harder I laughed, the harder he kicked me, punched me, scratched me... For the first time since the winter of 1975, I felt at peace. I laughed because I saw that, in some hidden nook in a corner of my mind, I’d even been looking forward to this” (Hosseini 289). From the young age of 12, Amir Agha has been letting his guilt get the best of him. For years Amir tries to run away from his past, believing that it will make everything better. Amir soon comes to terms that projecting his guilt in a negative way only creates more problems. Khaled Hosseini’s novel, The Kite Runner, teaches the reader that guilt can either destroy a person mentally or make that person stronger through Amir, as he tries to get rid of Hassan to make himself feel better and Amir going back to Afghanistan to get Hassan’s son, Sohrab, and bring him to safety.

In Khaled Hosseini’s novel “The Kite Runner”, he illustrates how he develops the characters through their words and actions. Being the main character, Amir is faced with the challenge of gaining his father’s affection/approval because he is Baba’s son. However, how Amir obtains his father’s affection/approval was through immoral ways. Baba on the other hand, had trouble showing his fatherly affection to Amir which causes bitterness within their father/son relationship. In this novel, we will explore how the relationship between a parent and a child is shown through their yearning of affection and how it can affect how one would be in the future.

He learned about how he was right his whole life, Hassan meant something to Baba. This brought to light who Baba really was; a man with secrets. By hiding this during Amir’s life it exhibits the reality of their relationship. Amir finds out his father and he is more alike than he ever believed possible. He finally saw his father as an imperfect human instead of the unrealistic expectation of becoming someone as honorable as Baba was seen.

Strong relationships are essential for people to be their happiest, and live life to the fullest. They shape us and our perspectives on the world and influence how we see others. When we betray or lie to those in close relationships with us, it can ultimately lead to destruction. In the novel The Kite Runner, author Khaled Hosseini explores the main character, Amir, and the effects of dishonesty and betrayal on his relationships with those who are dear to him. Hosseini examines the way dishonesty and betrayal can damage valuable connections through Amir’s relationships with Baba, Hassan and Sohrab.

Through the character of Amir, The Kite Runner’s protagonist written by Khaled Hosseini, the author brings to life a character flawed by indecisiveness. This character battle against opposing forces but perhaps the greatest one of them is his own consciousness. Amir’s actions, cause one to question his honor, his morals, and whether or not he is able to live up to them. As a child, Amir grew up with privileges, with servants and perhaps the world at his feet, the one ting he most longed for however was his father’s love and affection.

Baba keeping his past secret and not telling Amir his own son about Hassan affected Amir's life majorly by his relationships he made and the decisions he made throughout his life. Throughout the story Baba’s secret never really haunted him but kept Amir from secrets about his family and how he treated things different about his life. Amir's relationships were affected because of Baba keeping the secret about him being his real father. “But there was something fascinating albeit in a sick way about teasing Hassan.

Throughout The Kite Runner, Hosseini explores the concepts of betrayal, trust, and friendship through the dense relationship of Amir and Hassan. Since the beginning of their childhood friendship, Amir and Hassan have been entangled in a relationship of unmutual love and respect that eventually leads to their relationship’s inevitable destruction. Hassan’s unconditional loyalty to Amir and Amir’s intense desire for his father’s acceptance form an unstable stage that predisposes them to ruination. As Amir strives for his father’s respect in the Kite Tournament, he severs the childhood bonds formed between him and Hassan and obliterates their relationship beyond repair.

True happiness is not simply handed out, it must be produced, cultivated, built from the ground up. Additionally, happiness cannot be measured, nor can it be perceived. Yet, above all else, it is what people seek most. Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini aims to explore the origins of true happiness through the trials and tribulations in the life of Amir, the novel’s protagonist. Throughout the novel, Amir suffers through perilous hardships as he strives to attain redemption for the wrongdoings of his past. Subsequently, through the process of cleansing himself of his sins, Amir obtains true happiness. The first step Amir took towards attaining happiness commences with the realization of his father’s flaws, which allows Amir to forgive his father’s shortcomings. Furthermore, Amir obtains happiness by marrying his love, Soraya, granting Amir the companionship for which he yearned most. Above all, however, Amir reached true happiness as a result of atoning for his betrayal against Hassan and sacrificing himself in order to give Sohrab the life he never had. Despite the hardships and struggles faced by Amir, kite runner beautifully displays the path to true happiness and how one is able to acquire it. In Amir’s case, he stumbled upon true happiness with the acceptance of his father's sins, the companionship he gains in soraya, the sacrifices he makes for Sohrab, and the journey to redeem himself from his past sins.

The father-son relationship portrayed in Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner, demonstrates the necessity of an empathetic fatherly figure in a child’s life. Some of these relationships exist between Hassan and Sohrab, Baba and Amir, and later Amir and Sohrab. The tense relationship Amir and his father, Baba, share and consequently, the events that stem from this relationship truly help develop the necessitation of a fatherly figure in one’s life.

In this text I am going to analyze The Kite Runner, then I will go on to discuss how the father-son relationship plays an important role in this book.