Analyse how the experiences of a character were used to comment on society.

Redemption can be felt when making yourself feel equal to it, Amir experiences this when Assef beats him up. Amir has had the feeling of guilt on his shoulders for the past 26 years after witnessing Hassan’s assault yet choosing not to stand up for him. He now has the opportunity to stand up for Hassan’s son by fighting the same character who raped Hassan earlier on in the book. Amir takes this chance. “What was so funny was that, for the first time since the winter of 1975, I felt at peace. I laughed because in some hidden nook in a corner of my mind, I’d even been looking forward to this.”

“My body was broken, just how badly I wouldn’t find out until later, but I felt healed. Healed at last.”“My body was broken, just how badly I wouldn’t find out until later, but I felt healed. Healed at last.”

Amir experiences trying to run away to America from the guilt he has, although guilt does not just disappear.

When Amir experiences Hassan’s assault, it develops the idea of how you can get