Author: Khaled Hosseini published The Kite Runner in 2003. It became a number one New York Times bestseller in 2005. Although this book was his first novel, people couldn't get enough of his story about the troubled friendship between two boys. Sylvester Stallone, an American actor, once said, “Most action is about redemption and revenge, and that's a formula. Moby Dick was formulaic. It's how you arrive at the conclusion that makes it interesting." You make mistakes every day from time to time, and however the story ends it will describe your mistakes. In The Kite Runner, the kite is the most important symbol representing Amir's past; just like a kite flying in the sky full of flying and diving, Amir's life was the same way a kite flies. The novel The Kite Runner teaches many things about redemption. It begins with Amir receiving a phone call from his old friend Graham Khan. His friend Rahim says, “There is a way to be good again” (2). This implies that Rahim knows about Amir's shameful past and that he wants Amir to redeem himself. Since this quote comes from the beginning of the book, we don't know what Amir has done that is worthy of redemption, or even why Rahim Khan calls Amir. But, later in that chapter, it is revealed that something very dark and life-changing lurks in Amir's past; something he will regret forever. “I thought about Hassan. I thought about Baba. Wings. Kabul. I thought about the life I had lived until the winter of 1975 came and changed everything. And it made me who I am today” (2). This is what Amir thinks as he ponders whether or not to return to Afghanistan. His initial reaction is not to go. Kabul, Afghanistan, was the ancient home of Amir, but it was also a p...... middle of paper ......, the dependence of each other. Although the kite “rotates, dips, and stabilizes,” it remains in the sky with free and natural movements (122). Verbal interaction is not necessary to keep the kite flying because their communication through the kite speaks volumes more than the sound itself. Decades later, when Amir flies a kite with Hassan's son Sohrab, the flying of the paper toy expresses more than anything Amir can say. “Then I blinked, and, just for a moment, the hands holding the reel were the calloused, chipped-nailed hands of a hare-lipped boy” (369-370). By observing this kite and seeing Hassan in his ascent, Amir begins to feel redemption and atonement for his painful past. The flying of the kite at the end of this novel does not close the door on Amir's past of guilt and burdens, but rather restores his memory of Hassan and offers hope for a redemptive future..