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Loss Of Amir's Guilt In The Kite Runner

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Simple Argument 2: As Amir goes away from home, Amir questions his action and is unable to get rid of his guilt due to the lack of acceptance from another. Amir and Hassan are two young boys of Kabul, Afghanistan. One day, when Hassan is running down a kite, he is cornered by 3 older Afghan boys. The Afghan boys blame him and his ethnic group(Hazaras) for ruining Afghanistan. The 3 boys decide to rape him. After Amir, who is looking for Hassan, sees Hassan get raped by the older group of Afghan boys, Amir is reluctant to stand up for his friend and runs away. He becomes guilty of his act of betrayal and starts to avoid his friend. After getting fed up of his guilt, which emerges from seeing his friend, he asks his dad to go to Jalalabad for vacation. As Amir goes to Jalalabad with his father and other relatives, he is caught up in his guilt, giving him an uneasy ride. Even after moving away from the house for some days, he still feels guilty in their hotel at Jalalabad. As everyone sleeps, Amir is trapped between thoughts about betraying his friend and his guilt. Amir wants to be accepted for his mistake, yet is left alone to be thinking about his foolish action. …show more content…

I kept tossing and turning as my relatives grunted, sighed, and snored in their sleep. I sat up. … “I watched Hassan get raped,” I said to no one. Baba stirred in his sleep. Kaka Homayoun grunted. A part of me was hoping someone would wake up and hear, so I wouldn’t have to live with this lie anymore. … I thought about Hassan’s dream, the one about us swimming in the lake. There is no monster, he’d said, just water. Except he’d been wrong about that. There was a monster in the lake. It had grabbed Hassan by the ankles, dragged him to the murky bottom. I was that monster. That was the night I became an insomniac.”

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