Essay On Amir's Redemption In 'The Kite Runner'

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Amir's journey for redemption is his final development as a character. Amir decides to go back to Afghanistan after Rahim Khan told him that there is a way to be good again. Amir learns of Hassan's child and is asked by Rahim to go and rescue him. Although Amir refuses at first, he eventually comes to terms with everything and says,"I looked at the round face in the Polaroid again, the way the sun fell on it. My brother’s face. Hassan had loved me once, loved me in a way that no one ever had or ever would again. He was gone now, but a little part of him lived on. It was in Kabul."(Hosseini 239). Amir decides to to back to Kabul and rescue Hassan's son, Sohrab, as it was the only living part of him out there. Amir has come to terms…show more content…
Biff saw the sky and he realized the life he thought he wanted, the life Willy wants for him, is not the one that is right for him. He belongs outside, the place he had always wanted to be but could not for the sake of Willy. Biff's own redemption sheds light on how he had the wrong dreams this whole time. Biff was not worried about the money and being successful he just wanted to be doing what he believes is right for him Willy thought that to be successful you had to make plenty of money which is where Willy suffers. He never got to know who he was. On the other hand, Willy has his own form of redemption similar to Amir's. Going to save Sohrab was a way for him to redeem himself and try to earn forgiveness for his past mistakes. Willy begins to believe that Biff turned out the way he did because he "filled him up with too much hot air." Saving Sohrab was a way for Amir to relish the only living thing left of Hassan, and for Willy he believes that by committing suicide and getting Biff twenty-thousand dollars from his life insurance that he can relish what is left of Biff getting into business. While having an hallucination he says, "Oh, Ben, I always knew one way or another we were gonna make it, Biff and I!" ( 107) Willy sees this as a way to redeem himself in the eyes of Biff and that they were finally going to "make it" as salesman. Similar to each other, Amir and
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