I have not read The King of the
Castle, but I have read The Kite Runner. Therefore, I
shall address the second one.
The Kite Runner
addresses the issues of growing up by looking at the father/son relationship
between Amir and Baba. Amir looks up to his father and sees a powerful man. He wants
to please his father, but knows that he is not able to live up to his father's
expectations. He runs to read him his stories, but his father merely nods and does not
get excited about them.
Amir is also jealous that his
father shares his attention with Hassan. He wants his father's praise and attention and
does not want it going towards Hassan.
The kite is a symbol
of many things in the novel but it is also a symbol of the childhood days shared in play
between Hassan and Amir. They spent hours working on making their own kites and getting
ready for spring when they would fly and run the
kites.
Childhood for the boys means climbing the
pomegranate tree and reading. Hassan and Amr played in the streets and went to the
cinema. Their life was relatively carefree until Assef raped
Hassan.
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