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There is a flair to be nigh again (2). This thought repeats through Amirs mind everyplace and over throughout Khaled Hosseinis novel, The Kite Runner. This is the story of a boy who struggles to define salvation. The author illustrates the story of Amir and how it is non possible to make wrongs in all right again because it is too late to change the ancient. In this novel, Hosseini shows that redemption is obtainable. Hosseini shows that guilt trip is the primary motivation for psyche who seeks redemption. In this novel, redemption is not when things are justified, unless when the wrong has been done and cannot change to be right. As defined in a letter to Amir by an quondam(a) family friend, Rahim Khan, 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 liking for redemption.Guilt is a strong incentive in a necessitate for redempt ion. Rahim Khan says to Amir there is a way 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 reminder that there was a way to be rid of the guilt a way to be good again. Amir begins his story by saying I became what I am today at the time of 12 (1). It is noticed that he says what I am today earlier than who and finishes the chapter leaving the reader with a slightly bitter feeling that the cashier has a dark past that he can not for give birth. He gives the idea that he is not happy with who he has become, and it was his wrongdoing that do it that way it was. Amir basis his guilt through his mem... ...his needs and his escape of standing up for himself. Another character who was searching for redemption in this novel was Amirs wife Soraya. Before they got married, she confesses to him a bout the time she ran away with someone as a teenager and clears up her past which had also stalk her (164). Even after she confessed to Amir, people still talked down about her because of her past (178). Amir, like Baba, Rahim Khan and Soraya, sinned by what he had done wrong, or alternatively 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 individual who had loved 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 age old.