Comparing Father 'And The Novel The Kite Runner'

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How would existence be if we were able to redo our mistakes? Losing a loved one and not mentioning them the thing that is eating us alive can be painful. It can hurt when you are trying to change for someone, but they wouldn’t care less. The excerpt from Father and the novel The Kite Runner demonstrates how two people are trying to make their father notice both of them. In the future the fathers died, in which Amir and Alice regretted not exposing the way they felt. Furthermore, Amir did everything to make his father proud. As a matter of fact, both fathers are dead now that both characters can’t admit their feelings towards them or find out how their father’s felt. Amir was competing in a kite race in order to make his father glad. For example

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