Growing throughout the Novel

     In the novel The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini, one particular character, Amir, stuck out to me as a main character throughout the course of the novel. As we start to read the novel, we learn about the personality of Amir. Amir spends his upbringing as a privileged Afghan citizen. He grows up receiving almost everything that he pleases, but if he doesn't receive what he wants, he performs acts of jealousy. We learned that Amir is very selfish and that no one can have anything that he doesn't have. Throughout the course of the novel, we see him transform from a selfish child to a selfless adult. We learn of different acts that he performs in his later years in life that show that he truly has changed from his selfish ways. Amir begins to develop quite a guilty conscience. "That was when I understood the depth of pain I caused, the blackness of the grief that I have caused everyone" (Hosseini, 107). He begins to see the things that he has done wrong in his life, and tries to make up for them. For example, Amir had felt that he needed to make up for the fact that he tried to get Hassan  kicked out of the house, so he spends his time trying to save Hassan's son. Even though Amir knew that trying to save Hassan's son could mean the end of his life because he had to face Assef, he did it anyways. Through acts like that, we learn to truly see the transformation from a selfish kid to a selfless adult.