"A tragic flaw is a literary term that refers to a personality trait of a main character that leads to his or her downfall" (http://www.cliffsnotes.com/cliffsnotes/literature/what-is-a-tragic-flaw). In The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini's touching fictional novel, the protagonist, Amir, has a fundamental flaw of cowardice. Some main characters in the novel are Hassan, Amir's childhood friend, servant, and half brother, Soraya, Amir's wife, General Taheri, Soraya's father, Baba, Amir's father, Rahim Khan, Baba's longtime friend, who was like a second father to Amir, and Sohrab, Hassan's son who is also Amir's nephew. Throughout the first half of the novel, Amir allows his cowardice to get the best of him. For example, Amir is talking with Soraya and General Taheri when Taheri tells Amir that "blood is a powerful thing, and when you adopt it, you don't know whose blood you're bringing into the house" (188). Amir agrees with Taheri not because he actually feels that way, but because he is too much of a coward to stand up to Taheri and tell him how he really feels. During the second half of the novel, however, Amir overcomes his flaw and defeats the demons that have been causing him years of guilt. Amir successfully confronts and beats his flaw of cowardice by making the dangerous journey to Kabul, fighting Assef in order to save Sohrab, and telling his wife of his failure to prevent Hassan's rape. Amir first confronts his flaw when he decides to make the dangerous journey into Kabul to rescue Sohrab. When Amir was a child, he witnessed Hassan's rape, but was too much of a coward to stop it or seek help. The guilt ate Amir alive and caused him to make Hassan and his father leave Kabul. The guilt continued for years until one day Rahim Kahn told him that "there is a way to be good again (2). Amir travels to Pakistan and meets with Rahim whereupon he learns that Hassan has died, but he has a son in Kabul that Amir must save in order to red