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Real friendships are more than a stubborn act; they are actions that surround your soul in order to uncover the truth that you're seeking in a friend. Friendship, as understood in Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner, is a distinctively personal relationship that is grounded in a concern on the part of each friend for the welfare of the other, for the other's sake, and that involves some degree of intimacy. Given this centrality, important questions arise concerning the justification of friendship and, in this context, whether it is permissible to exchange it when someone new comes along, as well as concerning the possibility of reconciling the demands of friendship with the demands of morality. When the past choices made by the main character, Amir, resurfaces in the present, the path to conciliation, understanding and redemption of cultures and creeds are expressed through a series of misfortunes and new beginnings.
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