Author: Khaled Hosseini published The Kite Runner in 2003. In 2005, it became a number one New York Times bestseller. Although this book is his first novel, people still can't get enough of his story about the troubled friendship between two boys. Sylvester Stallone, an American actor, once said: "Most of the action is based on redemption and revenge, and that's a formula." Moby Dick was formulaic. It’s how you arrive at the conclusion that makes it interesting.” From time to time, mistakes are made every day, and no matter how the story ends, it will describe your mistakes. In The Kite Runner, the kite is the most important symbol that represents Amir's past; just like a kite flying in the sky full of soaring and diving, Amir's life was the same as that of a kite. The novel The Kite Runner teaches a lot about redemption. It all starts with Amir receiving a phone call from his old friend Graham Khan. His friend Rahim says: “There is a way to become good again” (2). This implies that Rahim knows of Amir's shameful past and wants Amir to redeem himself. Since this quote comes from the beginning of the book, we don't know what Amir did that merits redemption, or even why Rahim Khan is calling out Amir. But later in this chapter, it is revealed that something very dark and life-changing is hiding in Amir's past; something he will regret forever. “I thought of Hassan. I thought of Baba. Ali. Kabul. I thought about the life I had lived until the winter of 1975 came and changed everything. And made me what I am today” (2). That's what Amir thinks as he debates whether or not he should return to Afghanistan. His first reaction is not to go. Kabul, Afghanistan, was Amir's former home, but was also a p...... middle of paper..., dependence of one on the other. Although the kite “turns, dives, and stabilizes,” it remains in the sky with free, natural movements (122). Verbal interaction is not necessary to fly the kite, as their communication through the kite speaks more than the sound itself. Decades later, when Amir flies a kite with Hassan's son Sohrab, the flight of the paper toy expresses more than anything Amir could say. “Then I blinked, and for a moment the hands holding the spool were the calloused, chipped-nailed hands of a hare-lip boy” (369-370). By observing this kite and seeing Hassan in his ascension, 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 to Amir's past of guilt and burdens, but rather restores his memory of Hassan and offers hope for a redemptive future..