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Conflict In The Kite Runner

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In The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini, the main character Amir is faced with Conflict; a serious disagreement or argument, typically a protracted one. Conflict is something no one wants to experience, but yet everyone experiences it eventually. In The Kite Runner, conflict deeply affects the main character, Amir. The conflict begins when Amir and his best friend Hasaan are partaking in the Kite running festival; Hassan shows absolute devotion to Amir, even as Hassan in raped by a neighborhood bully. When Amir neglects to step in and help his friend, he is overcome with guilt; Amir was engulfed in his own emotional toxicity for years. Though the conflict changed him greatly, it was relieved over a decade later when Amir thought he had gotten what he deserved.

It all began in Winter 1975. Prior to the kite running tournament that year, the most conflict Hassan and Amir festered up was a meer one way argument. When the boys were playing, you may even mistake them for brothers, Hassan being the younger one that looked up to Amir. The day of the Kite tournament, Amir had experienced jealousy of Hassan over Baba’s attention- but nothing had yet deterred their friendship. Hassan had promised Amir he’d get him the blue kite he’d …show more content…

In The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini, the main character Amir lives with the guilt of watching his best friend, and brother, get raped. That day, he neglected to speak up, and the guilt of the event tormented ever waking moment of his life; however, when facing the boy who’d raped Hassan years later: he did what he knew he had to do and as the conflict was resolved, so was his emotional pain. Amir’s life had been different living with guilt, but his world was looked at from a whole new light once it was gone, Amir learned the power of his voice; he learned the power of avenging those you

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