The Kite Runner - By Khaled Hosseini

On this book I'm going to be very disagreeable with the reviews not as much as how good the drama was, because it really was! but for a word the seems to follow this book on reviews over and over again: "Redemption"
What kind of redemption our principal character Amir had? he watched his best friend Hassan be violated for a ripped kite, went on to ask for it the very first moment after the brutal act, like it was the only thing that mattered to him, turned his back on his friend by stopping to talk to the poor boy and repaid Hassan's loyalty to him by forging a robbery and blaming on Hassan! then several years later after leaving him behind and coming to the States he did went back on a dangerous (yes, very, I'll admit) mission to rescue Hassan's little boy from the hands of horrible people back in Afghanistan, but...
Now comes the question...Did you really feel he did that out of Redemption? did he really wanted to do things right, simply BECAUSE it was right?
I'll tell you what I think.
Amir couldn't get the horrible thing he did to his friend out of his mind. Amir couldn't sleep well because he betrayed and lied to his friend. Amir, Amir, Amir. HE needed to clean his conscious, and in the end, I felt that he did that to himself, to be able to live with this. I don't think or feel that he did that for his friend Hassan, because it was right, because it was the least he could have done to rightened the situation. You see, I don't recall one single entry where he asks for forgiveness to Hassan, not even in his mind, not truly from his heart. I believe Armir had to get Hassan's little boy back for him to be in peace with himself and not out of thinking of his friend and the damage he caused, but for himself and only.
As I see, redemption is much more than just a heavy conscious, but it's the real understanding that we did bad, asking for forgiveness, from the heart.