Have you ever had this experience------
When someone says bad things about your friend, you don't dare to stand up because you are cowardly.
When you see someone bullying your friend, you hurry away for fear of causing trouble.
And the protagonist of the story, Amir, is also like this---
Cowardice is human nature
Hassan is the servant's child, and I am the young master (Amir), I grew up with Hassan, we grew up eating the milk of the same grandmother, playing together, learning to talk and walk together, when we grew up we liked to fly kites, I flew kites very strongly, and Hassan always, after I successfully killed a kite, chased for me the kite that fell, symbolizing my victory. He always chased him out without hesitation, and as he ran, he turned back and shouted at me: For you a thousand times. Chasing that kite for me like a moth to a fire, like he chased after me all his life----- for you a thousand times. ————
On that day, as usual, we went to the secret base in the back mountains, and I was going to read to him, but I met someone who had become a nightmare for our whole lives—Assef, a man of arrogant character who once beat a man half to death with his stainless steel fist, and today he wanted to beat me, and it was Hassan who saved me with his slingshot at the last minute. But none of us thought that from here, the nightmare of our whole life would begin.
It was the biggest kite competition of the year, but I didn't think it was—Hasson's last, the last time—chasing the kite for me and yelling at me------'re for you a thousand times."
That day, Hassan chased the blue kite that symbolized my victory for me, but he did not come back as usual, he came back covered in blood, he did not say anything to his family, but I knew ----- knew what was going on, Asef punched and kicked him in that alley with a stainless steel fist, but, because I was cowardly, just watching from behind, I knew that Hasson saw me, but he lay on the ground with tears in his eyes and was beaten, and his eyes looked at me as if he was saying, ----- friend, why don't you save me, But my heart was making excuses for my cowardice, I was afraid, I did not dare to come forward-------- I kept comforting myself, he was only the son of the servant, the son of the servant, not my friend.
Since I was a child, I have been cowardly and accustomed------- when I was a child, I always encouraged Hassan to do bad things, but in the end it was Hassan who took on the mistakes.
Later, cowardly I did something that I could not think of myself, I could not face Hassan because of inner guilt, I could not face my cowardice, so I hid my money and watch in Hasson's room, and then slandered him, and finally drove him and his father away, and I also deserved it, and suffered from half a lifetime of inner torture--------
Life will inevitably have cowardice when whether it is me in the story (Amir) or in reality us, cowardice is human nature, everyone will have, the existence of cowardice is not important, what matters is whether you can overcome him, if you give you another chance you will find yourself?
There is a way to be a good person there
One day years later I got a call from my dad's good friend Rahim Khan, who was also my childhood friend, and he told me that ------ there was a way to be a good person--------
I listened to the choice of my heart, from the United States back to the homeland, the homeland that carried my childhood, the homeland that was baptized by the world war, full of traces of war, I returned to my homeland, and found myself like a traveler.
Here I was condemned by the people who stayed here, why I left the motherland when the country was in trouble, and at the same time I learned a shocking secret------- Hasson is my half-brother. I also know that a few months ago, that day, he would rather be shot than surrender his ownership in order to protect the house we played in as a child, and then his son was also sent to the orphanage, and now no one can save him, and his old friend is very ill, and he also knows what happened that year------ what I did to Hasson, and my father's fault. So he called me back to make up for my mistake with my dad----- we all owe Hassan------- the man who had done it for me a thousand times-----
But at that time, the homeland was full of dangers, and my friend wanted me to take Hassan's son out of the war-torn orphanage. It wasn't easy, and at that time I had a stable life with a beautiful wife, and I was still very cowardly at the age of a few decades------ but -------
After drinking the next night, I still made up my mind to pick up the little one, and I set off immediately because I was afraid I would change my mind-----
But things didn't go well, Hassan's child, Sohrab, was pulled to be a dancer, and the person who controlled him was assef, the nightmare of childhood, and I was determined to take him, and Assef proposed that as long as I won the battle against him--------
I want to pursue my former self, to make up for that year's cowardice, even at the cost of my life----- this is my way to become a good person----
As a literati, how can I be Assef's opponent, I was beaten to death, he used his stainless steel fist to beat me like he beat Hassan, my ribs were broken, but the more he hit, the more painful I was, the happier I laughed, the more comfortable my heart was. He didn't understand why I was laughing, only I knew in my own heart that this was atonement----- the last punch of the atonement ----, I felt like I was going to die, I was going to -------
That's when Sohrab pulled up his slingshot, just as Hassan had protected me at the time------- for you a thousand times-----------
In the end, we escaped-------- and something happened in the middle (interested friends go to the original plot).
But in the end Sohrab became my son, and I became the kite chaser, for him a thousand times.
Where I used to be cowardly, I found my way to be a good person.
So give you a chance, will you get back to who you were? The hardest thing for people is to get up wherever they fall. If we want to break through ourselves, we must learn to find the self that once wanted to do that, instead of just remembering the self that we didn't dare to do.
When sin is transformed into good deeds, it is truly saved
When I knew my father, such a great and righteous father, who was also a man who made great mistakes when he was young, who fell in love with the servant's wife and had a child, I understood how my father's life had not been atonement. It was also at this time that I understood what he expected of me.
In order to atone for his sins, he has done good deeds all his life, built orphanages for the local area, helped beggars ----- because he was also a cowardly person who did not dare to admit his mistakes, so from a young age he especially hated me crying, because he wanted me to become, not a cowardly person he failed to become. He always did his best to help others, and in society he became a respected person. Until that time-------- he truly became the one who was not cowardly--------
On the way to the United States, he had to pass a very important threshold, and he confronted the drugged soldiers in a categorical manner, not letting the woman be defiled in exchange for the opportunity to pass the car. I remember saying, "Even if a hundred bullets had gone through my chest, I wouldn't have let that happen." ”
I think at that moment, he not only became the respected person of the whole car, but he also completed his redemption.
He atonement for sins with his life's "actions," and he taught me ------ when sin leads to good deeds, that is true salvation. Like my teacher said, some people have been good people all their lives, but at the end of their lives they do a wrong thing, and they may become a bad person; and some people do bad things for a lifetime, but because of the last good deed in life, they become a good person.
I would say that cowardice is human nature, and everyone will make mistakes sometimes, and the important thing is not to repent, but what you do in the limited life left. "Maybe everyone has a kite in their heart, no matter what he means, it makes us brave to chase!" 」