The story of the kite runner starts off as the main character in America talking to a person he knew as a little kid in Afghanistan. Both the movie and the book show this, but the movie itself has this scene longer as the man is shown with a wife and a new published book then gets a call. The book just starts off as the man talking over the phone then the flash back happens to show the past and even that has events scattered (jumbled) around where the book had events a, b and c but the movie has b, c, a and e. The movie skips event d because in the book it talks of Baba’s leg and how it is twisted, making it so the man cannot walk right. The movie does not show him having any problems with his leg. Baba’s son Hassan is said to have a cleft
