P3+Colleen+and+Michael

Colleen Brown and Michael Davenport & Shakarra Dickert
 * __The Kite Runner__**

Reiterated throughout __Kite Runner__ the line “There is a way to be good again” is imprinted into the minds of the readers that it holds significant meaning to the premise of the novel. The characters present events that are deemed to be immoral yet as stated above they continue to find “a way to be good again”. Both Baba and Amir have had events in their past that had continued to haunt them throughout the novel. As stated in chapter nineteen of __Kite Runner__, “//There is a way to be good again,// he’d said. A way to end the cycle. With a little boy. An orphan. Hassan’s son. Somewhere in Kabul” (Hosseini 226, 227). It was exposed in the book that Baba had concealed that fact that Hassan and Amir had been brothers. That was information that should not have been hidden from the children but Baba continued to live on, trying to give back to cover up that pain he felt for hiding that he had another child. Though he did lie, Baba tried to amend things by providing for Hassan and giving back to the community through the construction of an orphanage then showing that “ //There is a way to be good again”//. In regards to Amir he was a child that witnessed the rape of his best friend. It was a time in his life that haunts him yet with his attempt to rescue his brother’s child he finds " //a way to end the cycle”// of lies and guilt that both him and his father had experienced. By taking that child out of harms way in Afghanistan it could personify to be Amir’s way of amending things that happened to Hassan that night where he wasn’t able to take him out of harms way. Through the line “ //There is a way to be good again”// gives hope to the reader that mistakes could fixed.
 * Theme -** "//There is a way to be good again"//

The encounter between Assef and Hassan strengthens the theme of friendship beyond the importance of the other themes, and is therefore the most important event of the book, because of the event leading to Sohrab saving Amir yet again. Assef says “I’m a very patient person. This doesn’t end today, believe me,” at the end of the encounter. This quote also leads to other, more dramatic events down the road, such as the fight on p. 287-291. This is because, due to Assef’s honest, forward nature, if he had not mentioned his intent to fight Amir later, then it’s likely that he wouldn’t have. That fight is evidence that Assef had intended to kill or maim Amir, because Assef refers to that fight as “unfinished business,” suggesting that the fight was simply what he had intended to do in his childhood. Therefore, Hassan, Amir’s childhood friend who loves him despite Amir betraying him, fighting off Assef had effectively saved Amir’s life, because if he had not been there, Amir would have been killed by Assef. Later on, in the fight on p. 287, Sohrab saved Amir from Assef, just as his father, Hassan, had. In the theme of friendship, Amir’s closest friend had been there twice, each in different forms, to save him from a fatal danger, strengthening the theme through the actions of Amir’s closest friend, who put himself at risk himself and through his children for Amir despite the fact that Amir had done nearly nothing for him.
 * Event -** //Hassan standing up to Assef//

// The dream that Amir had at the end of chapter 14 is a key symbol in the book __Kite Runner__. It signifies Amir’s past as well as the reason for his future actions. As the dream is written in this chapter, “At some point, maybe just before dawn, I drifted to sleep. And dreamed of Hassan running in the snow, the hem of his green //chapan// dragging behind him, snow crunching under his black rubber boots. He was yelling over his shoulder: //For you, a thousand times over!”// (Hosseini 194). The dream is somewhat of a flashback to Amir’s childhood. It is a flashback that reminds him of the wrong he had done to Hassan, which is one of main focused events throughout the novel. Through the occurrence of the dream it could be assumed that it is a motive to convince Amir to embark on this journey back to Afghanistan seeing as the novel stated, “A week later, I sat on a window seat aboard a Pakistan International Airlines flight” (194). With the request to return to visit an old friend he is skeptical because he is convinced that this family friend knows of his secret, yet Amir places that aside and still goes on this journey. It could be perceived to mean that his dream reminds Amir that he needs to finally put an end to the guilt feeling created during his childhood. This dream is a symbol a different events that would occur in the __Kite Runner.__
 * Symbol -** //Amir's Dream

Hosseini, Khaled. //The Kite Runner////.// New York: Riverhead Books, 2003. Print.