Kite Runner Pashtunwali Quotes Analysis

Readers first observe this whenever Amir secretly stands and watches Hassan get raped by the bully, Assef. He didn’t intervene because he knew Assef would do the same to him and his main goal was not to let Assuf see him. Another example of this is whenever Amir hides money in Hassam's bed to make it seems as if he was stealing. His goal was to get Hassan kicked out of his home. As Amir grows older, his childhood secrets divulged and he begins to feel guilty for what he did to Hassan.

In Khaled Hosseini’s novel, The Kite Runner, Amir struggles to cope with his inaction during Hassan’s rape. Overwhelmed with guilt, Amir devises a plan to get Hassan and Ali dismissed so they would no longer be a constant reminder of all the times Hassan had protected him and his failure to do the same. The guilt of betraying Hassan burdens him for years, and even after he and Baba move to America, he carries the weight of his actions with him. However, after he accepts Rahim Khan’s request to rescue Sohrab and bring him to safety, Amir strives to leave behind the selfishness and cowardice he had previously succumbed to. Amir progressively begins to forgive himself for his injustices towards Hassan as he recognizes his evolution from a coward

One of the main themes in The Kite Runner is forgiveness. It is shown in many different ways throughout the book and mainly revolves around how Amir wants to be forgiven for not helping Hassan when Hassan needed help the most. Amir cannot live with the guilt and feels a strong need to find redemption after he betrays Hassan. Hassan, who has always helped him and stood up for him in the past, got raped while Amir was watching and cowardly refuses to intervene.

Baba forgave him, but Ali decided to leave anyhow. This act was cowardly of Amir. He decided that he wanted to get rid of Hassan instead of facing his problem and express his regret to Hassan. In 1981 Amir and Baba fled from Afghanistan and went living in the

The rest of the story shows Amir trying to redeem himself for his betrayal. Baba also betrayed Ali by sleeping with his wife. Although Baba died before he could make up for his sins, Amir atoned for both of their past mistakes by adopting Sohrab and taking care of

Immediately then, Amir remembers a dream in which he has lost in a snowstorm until a familiar shape appears before him. All of a sudden the snow is fully gone. The sky is blue and filled up with

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’” (Hosseini .15), this example shows that Baba did just this, he stole Hassan’s right

The whole point of the story as a whole is to find justice, which does and does not happen. The only act of justice that happens is that they did find out that the miller does steal from the people in the town. The whole story was revolving around acts of injustice. The miller, John, and Allen stole something from someone. The miller stole food from the professor.

In the book “The Kite Runner” by “ Khaled Hosseini ” it states “ Childrens aren’t coloring books .You don’t get to fill them with your favorite colors “ ( pg 21) . From this quote I can infer that Amir’s father thought that what Amir did was dumb and rare , he thought that his kid should he like him . He didn 't understand why his son prefers to stay at home and write . In the excerpt “Father ” by “Alice Walker ” it states “ Im positive my father never understood why you wrote ” (paragraph 2) .

The saddest part was that Amir was there watching from a distance and was unwilling to help his best friend due to his lack of courage and inability to stand up for himself. Up until adulthood, Amir had to carry the baggage of betraying Hassan by not being there when he most needed him, this guilt tormented him to the point where he moved to America with his dad, Baba, as a way to escape his

He forgot the tenth commandment when questioned by Reverend Hale. That doesn’t seem like a big deal, but it was a big deal. Reverend Hale describes theology as a “fortress”, and that “no crack in the fortress may be accounted small.” Meaning that you either get all or nothing, so Proctor forgetting the tenth commandment set off a red flag for Hale and everyone else in the room. In their eyes, and in accordance with the puritan faith; only a devout Puritan would have all of their commandments memorized.

His first word when he little was Amir. On the flip side Amir thought more about himself then Hassan. It was a one sided friendship. Amir was disrespectful towards Hassan. He took advantage of the fact that Hassan could not read or write ,so he would tell him the wrong meanings of words.

Then the directors of the school destroy his work of art because it was not kid friendly, even though they were the ones to put it into the school curriculum. I think the school’s solution to the problem was not good. Like what it says in paragraph 3 in I am real where it says, “I want you to know, too, that my publisher and I have done absolutely nothing to exploit the disgusting news from Drake.” Even when the school burned the book he said that he did not exploit them like he mentions in this quote. I think he knew his book was not for children, but what I think he really is mad about is his reputation.

“It is the responsibility of the professor to conduct the class in such a way that maximal learning occurs, not maximal speech. That’s why no teacher would permit students to launch into anti-Semitic diatribes in a class about the Holocaust” (paragraph 5)I believe this is an Either/or fallacy. He tries to force a conclusion by pressing just two choices one which is clearly more desirable than the other. Another fallacy is “Teachers are dictators who carefully control what students say to one another.” Would this be an example of the Strawman fallacy, because of the lack of the support?

Although Amir does not treat Hassan as his servant when they are alone, Hassan does not have a sense of belonging in his own community, due to the notion that Hazaras are inferior to Pashtuns in the Afghan society. At his birthday party, Amir wanted to say: “(Hassan’s) not my friend!... He’s my servant!” (Hosseini, 36) to Assef and his friends, simply out of fear of him, knowing his harsh views of Hazaras. In difficult situations; when Amir senses danger, or when he feels insecure, it becomes acceptable for him to isolate Hassan in front of others, in order to save himself.