Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Finding Peace (The Kite Runner)
- The entire novel revolves
around finding peace
- When Amir is young he tries to find
peace through his father.
- He feels that he needs to make his father proud.
- He feels that, in order to be happy
his father needs to appreciate him.
- He would watch his best friend get raped to gain his fathers affection.
- When Amir is older, he tries to find
peace by making up for his past.
- Amir will do anything to save Hassan's son.
Anmerkungen:
- "I would not leave Afghanistan without finding Sohrab"
- Amir
- He nearly loses his life fighting
Assef trying to achieve this.
- He also
- Amir spends his life riddled
with guilt and does whatever
he can to stop that
Anmerkungen:
- "Those thorny old barbs of guilt bore into me once more, [...]"
- Amir
- He takes on a fight that he is nearly
sure to lose just to save Hassan's son.
- He is happy because he finally feels at peace.
Anmerkungen:
- "What was so funny was that, for the first time since the winter of 1975, I felt at peace."
- Amir
- This is probably because he feels
that he is paying for his past.
- His guilt also makes him a better person because
he understands that everyone makes mistakes.
- He accepts Soraya's past.
- Not only does Amir seek peace
but everyone else does too.
- Baba
- Baba's way of finding peace is by trying to force
other people to avoid making his mistakes.
Anmerkungen:
- "Sometimes, I think everything he did, feeding the poor on the streets, building the orphanage, giving money to friends in need, it was all his way of redeeming himself."
- Rahim Khan
- He tells Amir that the worst thing one
can do is to steal and he did just that. He
stole Ali's rightful son through his wife.
- He gives to the poor and does a lot of good deeds
because he fills that this will make up for his past.
- Baba becomes a better man through his mistakes.
- Rahim Khan
- Rahim Khan tries to find peace as well.
- When Amir is younger
- Rahim Khan acts very fatherly towards Amir because
he knows what kind of problems Amir and Baba have.
- Rahim Khan knows most of the things that happen in Amir's life and understands
that Amir is having a rough time and knows that someone needs to be there for him.
Anmerkungen:
- "Except now I knew he knew. [...] He had always known."
- Amir
- When Amir has grown up
- Rahim Khan feels that in order to find peace within himself
he must inform Amir about his past and about his father.
- He tells Amir that he knew about
everything (including the rape)
- He tells Amir about his father having an affair with
Ali's wife and how Hassan is actually his half-brother.
- He tells Amir about Hassan since their separation and about Sohrab.
- Hassan
- When Hassan was younger, the way he found peace
was to always make sure that Amir was happy.
Anmerkungen:
- "For you a thousand times over!"
- Hassan
- He fought Amir's fights
- He made him breakfast
- He lied for Amir
- He even got raped for Amir