Lies and the truth. We all are confronted by these two words day to day. However, in the end, lies all always will catch up to you. Always.
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In the resolution of the novel, The Kite Runners, by Khaled Hosseini, Amir and his father (Baba) had fled from all they had known to America. “Baba loved the idea of America,” (125). Loved. “America was different. America was a river, roaring along, unmindful of the past. I could wade into this river, let my sins drown to the bottom, let the waters carry me someplace far. Someplace with no ghost, no memories and no sins. If for nothing else, for that, I embraced America,” (136). Years pass by, Amir becomes a writer, marries the daughter (Soraya) of a decorated general in Afghanistan and Amir’s father dies of cancer. Before his father death, Amir’s father told the truth of Hassan. He was Amir’s half-brother.
The text to self conflict has been present from exposition to the rising action, however, in the resolution, the text to self conflict is finally being resolved. ” A week later I sat on a window seat abroad a Pakistani International Airlines flight, watching a pair of uniformed airline workers remove the wheel chocks, (194). Amir was going back to his homeland. The reason Amir left back to Pakistan to find his long lost friend and brother, Hassan. Amir had an empty place in his heart because of lies he had been told. He wanted the truth to be told, however, hiding away in the shadows of America for decades, had made it to late to save his friend. Hassan and his wife had been killed on the street in front of their child, Sohrab. Amir journey’s to Afghanistan only had one goal. To find Sohrab, Hassan child. Eventually, he did. In the old house he had grown up in with is father, the same street were Hassan’s blood was spilled and the annual Kite championship was held. However, it wasn’t his house anymore. It was Assef’s. An old childhood bully and one of the Taliban’s leaders. Assef would only give Sohrab to Amir if they finished the unfinished business of their childhood. A fight.” I don’t know why at one point, I started laughing, but I did. And the harder I laughed, the harder he kicked me, punched me, scratched me… For the first time since the winter of 1975, I felt at peace, I laughed because I saw that, in some hidden nook in a corner of my mind, I’d even been looking forward to his,” (289). In the end, only two people got out of that room. Amir and Sohrab.
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In the resolution of the novel The Kite Runner’s, I was satisfied and unsatisfied with the resolution. Khaled Hosseini left the reader on a cliff hanger, on what would happen in the future. Though, Amir and Sohrab were able to flee from Afghanistan and eventually back to America, it had scared Sohrab for life. In the end, I would have wanted to know what would happen to Sohrab in America, however, the book ended, with the reader having to assume what happens after the end of the novel. The resolution of the novel proved that even the lies you tell in your childhood can catch up to you and when they do, nothing can stop you until the truth is revealed. Nothing.
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