1. Explain why the fight scene allows Amir to feel healed. Why do you think he needed to endure physical pain and suffering in order to balance the scales?

– When Amir watched Hassan get raped in the alleyway, Assef was the one that punished/raped Hassan. the reason behind this was because both Amir and Hassan threatened Assef early in the story saying people would have to call him one-eyed Assef. QUOTE. the punishment was for Hassan to get raped however because Amir didn’t go down the alleyway to help, Assef didn’t punish him. Ever since that day Amir wanted someone to hurt him, an example would be at the pomegranate tree. (QUOTE) However, Amir then knew he wouldn’t get it so he gave up feeling helpless until he meets Assef once more. In the encounter with Assef years later, Assef said that he very forgets a face and that he promised to beat up Amir for standing against him and hanging out with a Hassara (QUOTE). At that moment he had to fight with Assef in order to save Hassan’s son, Sohrab. Amir was losing the fight got seriously wounded and many broken bones, that is when Amir starts laughing because he feels felt relieved, healed, in some ways forgiven because that was the beating he believed he would have received if he went into the alleyway to protect Hassan when they were kids. hence why is was feeling heal, it was the beating that he always thought he deserved, the punishment that would come after a mistake and this was his punishment.

2. Describe how Amir believes he can redeem himself for Baba. Explain the reality of this after Amir achieves what he set out to. Why does it not work out?

– Around the beginning of the book, the readers are informed that Amir’s mother died in childbirth after Amir had been born. The impresses ion was then given that Baba has never forgiven him it. As a result, Amir has constantly been seeking his father’s approval, possibly as a way to redeem himself to Baba. However, this does not work, Amir follows a path that leads to destruction for Hassan. Amir thought that the way to gain redemption in his father’s eye was to bring back the winning kite from the kite runner tournament. Amir sacrificed Hassan to Assef in hopes that the kite he would bring to his father would be okay. In that Moment he committed a sin that wouldn’t be redeemed for over 26 years. living with the guilt from it for the majority of his life.

3. Why do you think Amir responds to this phone call the way that he does? He has lived with his sin for 26 years. Why do you think he tries to redeem himself now?

– Amir does well at hiding from his sins for 26 years. He builds a new life for himself in America, settling down with his wife. However, It wasn’t just himself that he needed to redeem but also his father for he also sinned when he lied about who the father of Hassan was and hide it from everyone, but Amir didn’t know that yet. Amir also needed to fill the part of himself that still didn’t feel right/at peace. When Rahim Kahn called to tell him that there “is a way to be good again”. Amir wanted to know if there was that possibility of feel at peace, so he went to hear Rahim Kahn out. once he found out what he had to do to be redeemed he didn’t want to risk the new life he made in America until he discovered the truth about his father, he realizes he needed to redeem himself and his father. Sohrab didn’t deserve to live the way he was after what had happened Amir felt responsible for the boy a little?

4. Discuss what Hosseini is trying to teach the reader about in this novel. What messages/lessons/warnings does he give to the reader about the guilt/redemption cycle? What should we take away from Amir’s story?

– “Redemption is one of the most complexes of human experiences. It cannot exist without guilt establishing itself first. Keeping in mind that realism exists to explore the reality of human experience,” Guilt isn’t something that many people ever want to experience, for it ‘can eat us up for the inside.’ It takes a long time to be able to redeem yourself after an experience like the one Amir went through, it can seem impossible. If you’re lucky enough to be redeemed then the cycle has been completed. the author was trying to get his readers to understand that it is nearly impossible to find redemption, for the only way to receive it is to give it to yourself. not many people think that they deserve a second chance. Hosseini is trying to tell warn us for the future, trying to prevent us from making a similar mistake, by reading the story we understand the severe consequences that follow, by looking at Amir’s life. always have a part missing from his life wishing that he could be at peace but never was.

5. Do you believe that Amir redeems himself? Does he make up for abandoning Hassan and driving him away from home all those years ago? (Bonus Question)

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