The Kite Runner

In The Kite Runner, significant quotes highlight themes of redemption, guilt, and personal growth. Rahim Khan's words to Amir, "There is a way to be good again," signal Amir's chance for redemption....

Rahim Khan says, "In the end, the world always wins. That's just the way of things," in The Kite Runner during Amir's birthday party. He recounts his failed love with a Hazara girl, Homaira,...

Rahim Khan knows the secrets of Amir's youth and understands that revealing them to Amir too soon will not help Amir. His role is of the wise sage. He is silent because Amir needs to take the journey...

In The Kite Runner, Rahim Khan is symbolically linked to Amir's journal and the phone call he makes to Amir. The phone call symbolizes Amir's unresolved guilt and his need for atonement, as Rahim...

Amir expresses his view of Rahim Khan as more of a father figure than Baba on page 25. This occurs after Rahim Khan shows interest in Amir's writing, unlike Baba, who is indifferent. Rahim's...

Rahim Khan reveals to Amir that Hassan was his half-brother, a secret that shocks and angers Amir. Amir's anger stems from the realization that his life was built on deception, and he feels powerless...

Rahim Khan's main mistake in "The Kite Runner" was concealing the truth about Hassan's parentage from Amir. He knew Hassan was Amir's brother but chose not to reveal this secret, believing Amir was...

Minor characters play an important role in reinforcing the novel’s key themes.

Rahim Khan in The Kite Runner is most like Hakim in A Thousand Splendid Suns and Cardinal Vittorio di Contini-Verchese in The Thorn Birds. Rahim Khan is a kindly, modest father figure to Amir, a man...

Rahim's final wish, expressed in his letter to Amir, is that he be left to die in peace and alone.