Kite Runner: Self-Sacrifice & Sanaubar's Character

Kite Runner: Self-Sacrifice, Baba's Charcter, & Sanaubar's Character

By: Olivia, Bronwyn, & Jordyn

Sanaubar's Character

" 'Where is Hassan?' She whispered. 'I'm right here,' Hassan said. He took her hand and squeezed it. Her good eye rolled to him. 'I have walked long and far to see if you are as beautiful in the flesh as you are in my dreams. And you are. Even more.' "(pg. 221)

Sanaubar over the years has felt so much guilt of leaving her son that she has finally decided see him. Traveling a great distance and enduring abuse just in order to find redemption. In this case how she redeemed herself was seeing her son.

Sanaubar's Character

Baba's Character

Baba's Character

"Baba took his memories of her to the grave with him. Maybe speaking her name would have reminded him of his guilt, of what he had done soon after she had died. Or maybe his loss had been so great, his pain so deep he couldn't bear to talk about her. Maybe both."(pg. 262)

Baba was actually a man who carried a lot of guilt throughout his whole life for conceiving a child with Sanaubar so soon after his wife's passing. We never knew this about Baba. We now see how he is not so different from Amir after all as they both felt a tremendous amount of guilt in their lives.

" You should have seen Sanaubar with that baby, Amir jan. He became the center of her existence. She sewed clothes for him, built toys from scraps of wood, rags, and dried grass. When he caught a fever, she stayed up all night and fasted for three days. She burned isfand for him on a skillet to cast out nazar, the evil eye. By the time Sohrab was two, he was calling her Sasa. The two of them were insuperable."(pg. 223)

Although Sanaubar had left Hassan as a baby and did not show any caring side to her her we see the opposite. Sanaubar puts all of her heart into caring for Sohrab and will do anything for him showing her more caring side. Sanuabar didnt want anything to do with her biologcal son but will now do anything for her grandson.

"And now, fifteen years after I'd buried him, I was learning that Baba had been a thief. And a thief of the worst kind because the things he stolen had been sacred: from me the right to know I had a brother, from Hassan his identity, and Ali his his honor."(pg. 237)

Amir is saying that Baba was not the person everyone thought he was. He had a dark side, he stole something from all three of them and it was each a thing that couldn't be replaced.

Redemption:

We chose redemption as in these chapters we see Amir redeems himself by going back to Kabul in order to get Sohrab and not fighting back against Asseff. Sanaubar redeems herself by reuniting with Hassan after all of those years. This shows redemption as these characters have done something wrongful in the past however in order to make up for these horrible deeds they sacrifice themselves in order to achieve redemption.

Self-Sacrifice

"- 'Nothing left for the children.' - 'We're hungry but are not savages! He is a guest! What was I suppose to do?' He said in a strained voice."

(pg. 254)

Wahid and his wife are arguing over their kids receiving food or Amir. They don't have enough money for both to have food so they give it to Amir because he is a guest and Wahid feels it his is duty to provide for the guest of the household. This shows self sacrifice by Wahid because he is sacrificing his families needs for a stranger in their home.

"My body was broken - just how badly I wouldn't find out until later - but I felt healed. Healed at last. I laughed."

(pg. 303)

Amir is getting beaten by Asseff with his brass knuckles. Amir is sacrificing his body for the sake of feeling forgiveness from Hassan and all of the horrific things he has done to him. He believes this is his punishment for all of this and the justice that he deserves. He is also not fighting back and allows Asseff to beat him brutally because he is trying to stick up for Sohrab.