Khaled Hosseini’s novel, The Kite Runner is a universal portrait of human life. It culminates the broader picture of modern individuals as notoriously hostile, depersonalized with changing values, discontent and psychologically maladjusted. The novel written and published immediately after 9/11 is historic in being written at the right time in the right place. The 9/11 tragedy led to the biggest existential crisis in the modern world depicting the many errors of human choices to attain freedom. What perhaps the modern individual did not understand was the fact that the real freedom is the realisation of one’s responsibility of action towards oneself and all others connected to that self. This paper thus is an attempt to highlight the equation of responsibility and freedom. The article deals with the importance and essence of responsibility in the context of existential idea of the novel that responsibility of action can help to overcome the anguish of existential crisis and lead to freedom.