One of the most prevalent themes in both The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini and Oedipus Rex by Sophocles is the potent feeling of guilt that resonates throughout the stories. Although each story is told in their own way, be it a novel or a play, they communicate the guilt to the audience very well and one can easily pick up the feelings of the characters while reading. For The Kite Runner, the guilt is felt after Amir watches his lifelong friend and family servant Hassan get molested in an alleyway and does nothing to help. As for Oedipus Rex, the guilt is felt after he figures out that he ended up killing his father and having intercourse with his mother. Also, both stories have very different ways the main character deals with the guilt,