The writer's intentions

I think the main intentions of The Kite Runner, were to show the conflicts between right and wrong and how through it all a wrong action can be forgiven, and your inner demons can be faced and defeated. Also, to be redeemed from something in your past can’t just happen when you want it to. You have to work for it and I think Khaled Hosseini did a good job of showing how you have to sacrifice and suffer first in order to feel like you can truly repay someone. He brings up the past quite a lot and I think that relates to the guilt Amir carries with him throughout the novel. The guilt from his mother’s death and the guilt from Hassan’s situation and how he suffered. Amir can’t quite forget about the past and so his future is filled with him trying to make it right. The use of Khaled Hosseini language and the way his descriptions are so detailed for example, when Hassan gets raped, he says, "Just like I pretended like I hadn't see the dark stain in the seat of his pants. Or those tiny drops that fell from between his legs and stained the snow black." This really makes you feel for Hassan and the horrific experience he went through. How Amir knew exactly what happen and how he can describe the situation so well. The writer really knows how to grab the reader and keep their interest at a high. The story is so touching that it makes you care for the boys almost right away. Khaled Hosseini uses many themes throughout the novel, such as, guilt, redemption, jealousy, betrayal, the kite and many more. These themes help relate to events that happen in the novel, what Amir goes through as a child and how he learns about his father when he grows up. Also how Amir learns how loyalty was so important to Hassan and how his actions betrayed him in such a way that he never forgot. The author made it a point that Amir’s fathers betrayal came out in the end as well when Amir learns that Hassan was his real brother all along. I think another part of the author’s intentions comes from showing the differences in religion and how it can keep a family apart for years until the truth comes out. How just a name as a Hazara and a Pustan can destroy a brothers and fathers relationship.