Circle of Narrative - 5.11.10

Today we were looking at how the circle of narrative in the Kite Runner is completed before the book is actually finished. I didn't realise this until we did about it in class, but I'm sure I'd have been a bit confused if I had, like, where is the book going? Except because I didn't realise that, I just carried on reading without thinking that. Anyway, the circle of narrative starts in December 2001 where Amir is remembering the 'winter of 1975' and the events that happened then, and also he is remembering a phone call that he had recently received from Rahim Khan telling him that 'there is a way to be good again'. By chapter 14, the reader has found out what happened in the winter of 1975 and important events up to June 2001, which is the time that chapter 14 is set in. It is in chapter 14 that the phone conversation between Amir and Rahim Khan occurs,about 'the way to be good again' thus completing the circle of narrative half way through the novel, meaning that there is still half the book to go which will be about something different, the 'different' being the way to be good again, through redemption. Sorry if this was really rambly.