Forever Typing Use of Fatherhood in “The Kite Runner”

â€Å"The Kite Runner† by Kahleed Hosseini has been deemed a ‘big hit’ by Craig Wilson, journalist for USA Today, selling more than 1.4 million copies, and requiring 17 printings at the time the article was printed, April, 2005. Some have called it a â€Å"certifiable phenomena for a first-time author in today’s anemic book market† (Singh), others still have said â€Å"is about the price of peace, both personal and political† (Hill). Hosseini has already made himself a success with The Kite Runner. Hosseini, in his novel The Kite Runner, illustrates that by being a father, one opens himself to a guilt that can destroy. In â€Å"The Kite Runner† there are many fathers we introduced to : Baba, Rahim Kahn, Ali, and eventually, the narrator, Amir. However, I†¦show more content†¦When Rahim Kahn tells Amir â€Å"There is a way to be good again†, he is not only referring to Amir’s sins, but his own as well (Hosseini 2). There is a way for us to redeem our sins. This is especially important to Rahim Kahn, who is also dying of a disease that is not named. This disease parallels Baba’s cancer in that is also symbolic of the guilt that Rahim Kahn has amassed over the years by being a father to both Hassan and Amir. The last father I will speak of is Amir. Amir is main narrative voice for most of the novel and thus serves as out storyteller. As we read â€Å"The Kite Runner†, it is in his narrative voice that we watch him grow from child to adolescent to adult to a father. The significance of this is that we don’t have that luxury for any of the other characters. There is a definitive change in tone from when Sohrab is going to live with Betty Caldwell and when Amir decided to take him to America. The tone becomes darker, more driven, as Amir had made a choice to take in his half-nephew. But this new tone also opens Amir up to the feelings of guilt and self-blame that occurs when Sohrab attempts suicide. Perhaps it was this tone that Baba and Rahim Kahn held inside their own personal monologues for so long. Another reason was Amir’s narrative voice is so significant is that Amir decides when