My Name is....Amir

Amir seeks to make up for beinga coward and not sticking by his friend. He wishes he would have treated him better. He was a poor friend.

In order to make up for it, which I am not sure he can do, would be to make Hassan royalty. Give him a lot of money, and then become his servant. He would have to serve faithfully and his child would have to serve faithfully Hassan's child.

I don't know if, even then, Hassan would truly forgive him.

On Atonement, "Atonement is making up for past sins. It is possible to atone for past sins and mistakes. The person must need to make it up to the person he or she wronged. They should fix the problem they caused or make life better for a person they wronged in some way.

In My Name Is Earl, Earl has a list of all the bad things he has ever done to people. He goes through this list one by one and makes up for what he did to people. I do think there is a limit to how much you can tone for. Some things are so bad that they cannot be made up for. Murder is one example of this. "