Third Outside Quarter Reading Post

Hi! Another question about my book is:
What are the major struggles and conflicts your character encouters?
How do the characters face the conflicts and how does going through these conflicts herlp the characters to learn more about themselves?
In my book, The Kite Runner, the main character Amir is ridden with conflicts. The main conflict in the book is between him and his guilt. When he was about 10 years old he watched his best friend getting raped and did nothing about it. He ran away and acted like it never happened. He felt so guilty, he couldn't keep seeing his friend Hassan every day and be reminded of what he did. He ignored Hassan and was cruel to him, eventually he put a large amount of money under his bed so that his father would think that Hassan had stolen it. It is Amir's fault that Ali and Hassan left, breaking a 30 year relationship between Ali and Baba (Hosseini 241). For the rest of his life, images of Hassan's face haunted him at night and when was as if Baba was stabbing him in the heart every time he wished that Hassan had been with them.
His guilt worsens when he finds out that his father's friend Khalid knows about what happened to Hassan. Khalid then tells him that Hassan was his half brother after Baba had an affair with Ali's wife (Hosseini 325).
This conflict taught him that he can't sit back and watch anymore. He showed that he had learned his lesson when he went back to Afghanistan to get Hassan's orphaned child. He fights on of the Taliban members and is horribly injured but finally feels like he has proved his loyalty to Hassan.