Author: Yuan Chun
When interests are threatened, people always choose to sacrifice or betray others in exchange for their own physical and mental safety. Selfishness, betrayal, hypocrisy, and the fear of facing the mistakes they have committed and choosing to escape are the weaknesses of human nature.
When love comes, when family, friendship, and love are intertwined, when the conscience is deeply disturbed and condemned, choose to bravely face the past, overcome their own cowardice and hypocrisy, realize their own value, and complete the self-salvation of the soul, which is the shining point of human nature and the road to happiness.
"The Kite Chaser" is a blockbuster work by Khaled Husseini, which has deeply touched the hearts of hundreds of millions of readers around the world since its inception, making countless pairs of eyes shed tears and shaking countless hearts. The novel tells a story of betrayal and redemption through kites as a lead, supplemented by family, friendship, and love.
The protagonist of the novel, Amir, and the servant Hassan grew up together, and although they are in a master-servant relationship, they are actually close friends. They often enjoy playing together.
Hassan was a very quick-witted and brave man, and he was also extremely loyal to Amir, and when Assef first threatened them, when Amir was overwhelmed with fright, it was Hassan who stepped forward and took the slingshot to scare off the enemy.
The kite of his youth was a great desire for Amir, as if it could be exchanged for more love from his father, so Amir wanted to win the most beautiful kite.
Amir is a good kite fighter, but Hassan is his most powerful assistant, hassan is good at chasing kites.
Amir once asked Hassan, "Will you recover that kite for me?"
"For you, thousands of times"
This is Hassan's answer, and it is also his promise of amir's love, and Hassan has always done so.
When Amir heroically fights the kite, accepting the cheers and blessings of the people, when Hassan is ready to go all out to recover the kite that symbolizes victory for Amir, everything looks so beautiful!
Everyone craves pure friendship, and such a sincere effort as Hassan is the most rare, Hassan is persistent and loyal for Amir's giving, this is Hassan's love for Amir, just like the promise of love:
For you, thousands of times.
Human nature is complex, there is goodness there is sin, there is selflessness there is selfishness, there is bravery and cowardice, some dare to face and some only want to escape, hide their faults, so they do not hesitate to hurt the people around them, so that they can bear the guilt and uneasiness of the soul.
Amir's pain stemmed from cowardice.
When Hassan was beaten to protect the kite Amir wanted, Amir was desperate to save Hassan, but his cowardice made him choose to retreat, he was afraid that he would be hurt in the same way, and cowardice made him selfish and did not dare to stand up for Hassan.
Maybe Amir's cowardice was not wrong, after all, the strength was there, he was not capable of defeating the other side, but the cowardly decision made him lose a lot, and also made him uneasy inside. From then on he did not dare to face Hassan, and his cowardly instincts made him choose to escape, and even as an adult he carried the uneasiness of his conscience.
When Hassan is eager to reconcile with Amir, they once again come to the pomegranate tree, Amir wants to vent, he wants to provoke Hassan to beat himself up, but he fails to do so, because Hassan will only pay for him thousands of times, but will never hurt him.
When Amir smashes the pomegranate at Hassan again and again, when Hassan grinds the pomegranate in his head crying, when Hassan is covered in the blood-red color of pomegranate juice, it seems that everything is doomed. Amir's inner guilt was only hidden at this time, and he chose to escape.
He hoped that his father would drive Hassan away, and he framed Hassan for stealing, knowing that stealing was the most unforgivable crime. But at this point, Hassan and Ali could not stay any longer anyway, and in the end they chose to leave. Just as the rain was pouring down, Hassan's thin figure disappeared completely from Amir's eyes.
Cowardice is a manifestation of incompetence, because cowardice can easily make people choose to protect themselves, even at the expense of others, cowardice is the weakness of human nature, he can destroy everything, including friendship, and some people disappear and can never be found again. From then on, I could only carry the uneasiness of a lifetime.
People are emotional animals, everyone will have a rich and complex thought, and with the irreparable harm caused to others by their own faults, even the most hard-hearted people will have emotional fluctuations, and the most heart-wrenching thing is self-blame and guilt. Choosing to continue to escape may protect yourself, but it is also a sign of cowardice, which will only deepen the guilt in your heart. And the best way to redeem yourself is the soul's self-redemption.
Amir's father had similarities with Amir, he was also a thief with a disturbed conscience, he stole his friend's wife, he stole Hassan's right to know the truth, and so on, and when he was ready to send Hassan away on that rainy day, he was in great pain, but he chose to escape.
But what can he do? It was a child of a lowly nation, and the mistakes he had committed were simply unspeakable.
But he is not a complete evader, he does not instigate himself when facing the enemy soldiers with pistols against his head, and he is not afraid to sacrifice himself for the sake of protecting others and for the sake of righteousness.
Amir was also deeply influenced by his father, and the uneasiness of his conscience tormented him all the time, when he learned that Hassan was his half-brother, remembered his bits and pieces with Hassan, remembered Hassan's tragic death, and left a young nephew living in a place like hell, he finally plucked up the courage to embark on the road that would make him a good man again.
The road to becoming a good man again was difficult, but this time Amir did not instigate, for the sake of his nephew's affection, for hassan, for the sake of redeeming the conscience in his heart, he bravely stood in front of the demon Assef, who did not make him feel afraid all the time. If there is light in his heart, his heart will be very strong, and this time he really has no fear.
Perhaps afraid of being abandoned by the whole world, or perhaps full of pessimism and despair about life, his nephew Sohrab almost died, and even after returning to his home in a safe place, he lost interest in communicating with the world. It is Amir who always insists on patient companionship, with the care of family affection, and with the warmth of home to bring sohrab sunshine a little.
When the kite flew again, Sohrab smiled.
Many times pain brings people the pain of the heart, and the best way to save pain is to redeem, to eliminate the uneasiness in the heart through inner self-redemption. The process will be difficult, requiring people to dare to face the past, face tribulations, defeat the enemy, and overcome themselves. The warmth brought by home, the energy brought by family, friendship and love is the most important force for a person to complete the salvation of the soul.
When Hassan desperately protected the kite, that kite was his love for Young Master Amir. When Amir accompanies Hassan's son Sohrab to fly the kite again, it is his desire for affection, the compensation for Hassan's love, and the salvation of this poor child.
After experiencing painful tribulations, Amir, as a writer, let people know about their people through books through the pen in his hand, which is true love, a great love for the whole nation.
And this is the kite in Amir's heart, and it is also the author Callid. The kite in Husseini's heart.
Everyone has a kite in their heart, and whether it is for the country and the nation, or for their own family, lover, relatives or friends, they will have feelings in their hearts that are different from others. And the weakness of human nature often makes people feel uneasy because of cowardice, hypocrisy, escape, etc., and whenever this time comes, it is time for the soul to redeem itself.
It is only through the self-redemption of the soul that one can truly be freed from suffering.
Everyone waits for redemption, everyone needs redemption. It is not terrible to make mistakes, it is terrible to not know salvation, and even to make mistakes again and again. To evade fault is to be incompetent and cowardly, to give up one's conscience. Break through yourself, seize the opportunity of your own repentance, but also create opportunities for others to repent, so that you can constantly improve yourself and walk on the road to becoming a good person.
May every one of us with great love catch the kite of life's ideals.