Summer's going by waaay too fast... I find myself not being bored at all, surprisingly. I actually don't think I'll get half of the stuff done that I was hoping to this summer, and I haven't been lazy at all compared to what I thought I would be... o.0
Reading the books wouldn't make it too much easier not that I've read Kite Runner, but, I saw the movie, so, assuming the storyline is basically the same.... Does it have to be those two books?
I guess, they both look at the relationships between father and son. Uh, they examine what one one is morally bound to do. Realising you need to make amends only once it's too late. That's all I can think of at the moment... But, it has been years since I saw Kite Runner...
In both cases the main character did something that other people decided shouldn't be done, but was morally just. As an example, the main character in kite runner was obviously told that messing with the Taliban was a bad idea, but he did it anyway to save his friend's son. Similarly, Antigone was trying to give that one person (Oedipus?) a proper burial, despite the ruling of the governing system.