The Kite Runner chronicles the story of Amir, the son of a wealthy merchant living in Afghanistan. He has difficulties in adjusting himself in the traditional Afghan society. His growing distance with his father in Afghanistan who is the embodies the masculine traits, his intimacy with Rahim Khan who seems have some feminine traits, and his improved relation with Baba America have a lot to do with his failure to internalize the traditional masculine codes. He is less competitive, more emotional, and always craves for feminine touch and loves to read and write poems and stories rather than playing sports. He is neither athlete like his father not has any fierceness of his father. He in this sense stands for an emergent masculinity that embodies virtually no traits of traditional manhood or masculinity. By protecting Sohrab, Hassan’s son from the Talib Aseef, one of his childhood nemeses after much tribulation in Afganistan and later adopting him as his son, he...