"Rock the Junta" relates to The Kite Runner in the fact that both of them take place in different countries other than the US, and they both have very strict governments. They also allow us Americans to see their cultures and how different they are compared to ours. Also, in "Rock the Junta," the fact that they all seemed happy yet won't exactly talk about anything, reminded me of the scene in The Kite Runner where Hassan gets raped but doesn't tell Amir, he just acts as though nothing has happened, even though Amir knows and treats him like crap anyway.
The graphic comic and "Toga party" were very similar. Both dealt with death as if death is no big deal. No one had a problem with anyone dying, and equally shared suicide in each story; the old people killing themselves in the garage in "Toga party" and the father "killing himself" in the graphic novel. I think that these two stories are emotional in the fact that we don't want the characters to die, we want them to live and have that perfect happy ending like in fairy tales. But they don't, and it makes these emotionally detached at the same time knowing that no one else in the story really cares, so why should we?
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