The Kite Runner Guilt Quotes Analysis

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Guilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to one’s own actions or lack of actions”. Audre Lorde, a feminist and civil rights activist who mainly published books in the seventies and eighties, said this during the National Women’s Studies Association Conference in 1981. This quote means that guilt is not a response to other’s actions, but a response to one’s self and own actions. Even though this quote is said in the context about women and racism, it can still tie into the book The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini. The Kite Runner is about a boy named Amir who lives in Afghanistan. Amir lives with his father, Baba, in a nice house, with his best friend and servant Hassan, living in a smaller house just outside. They enjoy their lives