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There is a elan to be good again (2). This thought repeats through Amirs mind everywhere and over throughout Khaled Hosseinis novel, The Kite Runner. This is the floor of a boy who struggles to find repurchase. The root illustrates the story of Amir and how it is not possible to make wrongs completely proper(ip) again because it is too late to change the noncurrent. In this novel, Hosseini shows that redemption is obtainable. Hosseini shows that guilt feelings is the primary motivation for someone who proves redemption. In this novel, redemption is not when things argon justified, but when the wrong has been done and cannot change to be right. As define in a letter to Amir by an old family friend, Rahim caravansary, redemption is when the guilt from something wrong leads to something good (302). Because of events that Amir is faced with, Hosseini illustrates a story where a big part of guilt plays in the desire for redemption. wrong-doing is a strong incentive in a quest f or redemption. Rahim Khan says to Amir there is a centering to be good again in the beginning of the novel, insinuating that there was hope and that there was a way for Amir to have peace with himself. This phrase was something that continuously repeated in Amirs mind throughout the novel which was a monitoring device that there was a way to be justify of the guilt a way to be good again. Amir begins his story by verbalise I became what I am today at the age of 12 (1). It is noticed that he says what I am today rather than who and finishes the chapter difference the reader with a slightly bitter feeling that the narrator has a dark past that he can not forget. He gives the intellection that he is not happy with who he has become, and it was his wrongdoing that made it that way it was. Amir basis his guilt through his mem... ...his needs and his lack of standing(a) up for himself. Another character who was searching for redemption in this novel was Amirs wife Soraya. Before the y got married, she confesses to him about the time she ran away with someone as a teenager and clears up her past which had also haunted her (164). compensate after she confessed to Amir, people still talked down about her because of her past (178). Amir, corresponding Baba, Rahim Khan and Soraya, sinned by what he had done wrong, or rather what he didnt do right. This caused guilt that he attempted to hide, but the memories and the past continued to haunt him, nag at him, and remind him of the person who had love him so much. This guilt of betrayal weighs on Amir throughout the story, and pushes him to seek out redemption. He longs to be good again and get rid of the guilt that he has carried since he was just twelve years old.