Brutality In Khaled Hosseini's The Kite Runner

Even though there are constant acts of brutality and violence in the world today, why does a person only seem to show interest or concern when it is in some way relatable to them? After Afghanistan was bombed by America, the Northern Alliance entered Afghanistan, yet the Taliban were nowhere to be found. Nobody in the rest of the world, up until this point, knew anything about what was truly going on in Afghanistan. Suddenly with use of technology and increase of involvement, everyone knew and Afghanistan's problems became a topic of normal conversation (Hosseini, 362). Once something on a large scale happens in an otherwise unknown country, everyone immediately knows everything about what has taken place. Khaled Hosseini's depiction of brutality in The Kite Runner …show more content…
It includes melmastia (hospitality and protection of guests), badal (the right of blood feuds or revenge), tureh (bravery), and purdah (protection of women)”(29). The overwhelming number of people that were in the Pashtun group and that were also Sunni Muslims is proof of the group's popularity and size. This group was highly focused on the ethics of the people and keeping everyone in line. There was a code set in place with tremendous standards for everyone involved. In The Kite Runner, written by Khaled Hosseini, Amir had never known the horrible treatment that the Hazaras, like his good friend Hassan, had gone through. He learned about the violence of the Pashtuns through reading one of his father's stories and how they took away basically everything that the Hazaras had. The Pashtuns were partially persecuting them because of the religious differences. But nobody would speak of this violence and hatred, even the teachers, so he never really learned about it from any other source (9). The people who witnessed this tragedy as Pashtuns refused to speak of it again because of the embarrassment of the violence and brutality