Unit II Essay: The Kite Runner
“There is a way to be good again.” Rahim Khan said before hanging up the phone. Ironic, how the person you betray is the same person who would do anything for you. Ironic, how you could watch your own brother gets raped and not even help. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini is a story that discusses the remarkable life a boy named Amir who eventually grows into a man. In his younger days he was always immoral to his “brother from another mother”, Hassan. He watched him get raped and also caused Hassan and his father to flee the country by falsifying Hassan as a thief. Do you believe that the good can disguise the bad? How about being able to redeem yourself after you have caused all evil? Rahim Khan is a friend of the family who watches and knows everything that is going on. When Amir gets older, Rahim Khan sends him a letter allowing him to redeem himself. Hassan has died and left a son behind, Sorhab, who will have no chance for a good life unless Amir can rescue him. Such a rescue is a way for Amir to redeem himself in his own eyes. Through the effective use of diction, syntax, and tone Rahim is able to allow for Amir’s redemption.
Hosseini’s use of diction allows the reader to be captured in the mist of redemption, which is a prevailing theme of the novel. His choice of words vividly reveals the chance that Amir must take in order to be considered “good”, diverging from all the wrong doing he has done. For example, in the text it states, “A man who has no conscience, no goodness, does not suffer” (Hosseini 301). Through Rahim Khan’s words Hosseini reveals that Amir is a really good person and that all the things he has done including making Hassan seem as a thief does not reveal his true character. His words such as “conscience” and “goodness” forces the reader to see who Amir has potential to be. Rahim does not want Amir to suffer but only wants him to redeem himself so that his hands are washed clean. For example, this...