the writer found that linkages between theme, plot, character, and setting in the novel the kite runner formed a whole story. in the novel, the kite runner, the conflict in this novel are external conflict, they are conflict in a family, competition, and ethnic conflict. conflict in a family due ti disharmony between son and mother. people in afghanistan have suffered, building destroyed by bombing and the people of afghanistan to pakistan refuge. the ethnic conflict they are ethnic pasthun and hazarah which are majority and minority.