Khadawardi, Hesham. “Superego Guilt, Redemption and Atonement in Khaled Hosseini’s the Kite Runner.” International Journal of Humanities Social Sciences and Education, vol. 4, no. 2, 2017, pp. 88–99. In this paper, Khadawardi explores Amir’s guilt, his attempts to redeem himself, and atonement in The Kite Runner. He begins by describing the close relationship between Amir and Hassan and the differences in their social statuses. He makes an immediate claim stating, “when it came to bravery, benevolence
The Kite Runner introduces many unknown features of Afghanistan. I barely knew anything about the country. Many things surprised me in both good and bad ways and changed my perspectives. By reading this book, I was able to learn some aspects of the country’s culture and the country itself. In Afghanistan, there are two ethnicities; Hazara and Pashtun. Hazaras are inferior to Pashtun. The reason is that Pashtuns are Sunni Muslims, while Hazaras were Shi’a (Hosseini 9). For long time, the Pashtuns