The Kite Runner - AO

AO'S in 'The Kite Runner'

• Stevens the butler in Kazuo Ishiguro's novel 'The Remains of the Day', is an example of an unreliable narrator.
• The presence of an unreliable narrator makes 'The Kite Runner' a postmodern text. Postmodernism attempts to unsettle the reader or examine the further meaning of the text.
• Another novel in which a key event in the narrator's childhood affects the rest of their life is 'Great Expectations', by Charles Dickens.
• Fights with bears are common in literature as a way of showing bravery, or cowardice. Compare Baba and Antigonus in Shakespeare's 'The Winter's Tale', who exits the stage 'pursued by a bear', and is then killed by it.