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5. What do you make of the courtship between Amir and Soraya? Is it a good idea to have the parents involved like that? What about the story she tells Amir, about her father's reaction to a previous relationship? Did her father overreact? Did she?
6. What about the concern Soroya's father shows over what the neighbors will think? Does it matter? How do things like family and culture ties encourage positive or moral behavior? How do they hinder it?

The Family Corner

The Kite Runner is rated PG-13 for strong thematic material including the rape of a child (nothing explicit, mostly just close-ups of loosened belts, a child's face on the ground, and things of that sort), violence (gun-toting Soviets and Taliban types, a woman is stoned to death, a child slingshots a man in the face in self-defense), and brief strong language (an f-word and one or two other, more mild words). Most of the characters are Muslim, and one of them is seen worshipping in a mosque.

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