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PROMPT: Also in Kite Runner, Sohrab saves Amir from Assef's brutality by using a slingshot. This scene mirrors the actions of Hassan earlier in the film. Is Amir's defense of Sohrab to General Taheri Amir's attempt to take a stand he didn't take earlier in the film? Or rather, does Amir redeem himself in the process of accepting Sohrab into his home?

This scene, the scene where Amir finally finds Sohrab and how Sohrab has to dance for the General, I believe was one of the more intense scenes in the movie. Of course it wasn’t as intense as the rape or the execution scene (where they were at the soccer game), but it definitely had a sense of “do I really want to watch this right now?” I say this because it kind of made me angry that General Taheri made Sohrab (Hassan’s son) dance. It seem like it was something that he wanted him to do to degrade him and make him feel like a lesser person, so when Sohrab threatened General Taheri after he attacked Amir I was like “yeah, you go dude!” Of course when he actually hit General Taheri in the eye with a rock from the slingshot I definitely felt a little queasy, and I thought that was weird because seeing blood doesn’t bug me, but that scene for some reason definitely bugged me. Anywho…I do believe that Amir’s defense of Sohrab was his version of trying to redeem himself for not taking a stand earlier in the movie when Hassan needed help, but I don’t think that was the point in time when he redeemed himself. No, I think that was just a way for him to feel better but I don’t think he redeemed himself until he took Sohrab into his home. That was a way for him to feel better about all the crap that he did to his friendship with Hassan.

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PROMPT: Kite Runner ends with Amir going to Afghanistan to retrieve Hassan's son. While Amir hadn't see Hassan since abandoning and betraying him as a youth, Hassan seems to have forgiven Amir, and his letter indicates that he knows he might never see his old friend again. Amir's guilt over the years must have been tremendous, but was this Amir's purpose for going to the Kabul orphanage? Despite the family ties that existed between Amir and Hassan, and their subsequent revelation to Amir, why do you think Amir traveled to Kabul?

Okay, first off I have to say that I really really enjoyed this movie. I actually didn’t know that this movie was taken from a book, but after seeing the movie I am more than tempted to buy the novel and read it. Apart from that, I don’t believe that the guilt that Amir felt towards his friend Hassan was the reason he went to the Kabul orphanage. I mean I see how that could be a possible solution to why he finally traveled back to his hometown but I have a feeling that that wasn’t the reason. I believe that the reason behind why he traveled back to Kabul to get Hassan’s son was because he felt that if he was the son then Hassan would do anything he could to get him. So in a way, it’s his way of showing his courage as well as a return to all the help that Hassan has done for him.