Introduction
Set mostly in Afghanistan in the regime of Taliban, the book Kite Runner written by Khaled Hosseini has won many hearts from its reader. The book that first published in 2003 really deserves a title as The National Bestseller. Bringing the theme of friendship, betrayal, guilt, redemption and the uneasy love between fathers and sons this novel had me thrilled and moved, both at the same time. Hosseini successfully portrays the feeling of the characters and also the situational at that time, about social issues such as ethnic prejudice, gender politics and adolescent bullying.
When we read the book, in the first view chapters, we are introduced to the race and class in Afghanistan. One of the uniqueness from this book is the culturally accuracy of the story. There are two ethnic groups Pashtuns and Hazaras that be the central of the story. The Pashtuns and Hazaras are ranged differently in the society where the Pashtuns is the majority in Afghanistan while the Hazaras is the minority. Conflicts happen between these groups for a long time because of both racial and religious differences. In this story, we can see the different status between Pashtuns and Hazaras. Amir and Baba are Pashtuns while their servants Ali and Hassan are Hazaras. This is also why it is said that Amir never think of …show more content…
So after reading this book we can learn some good values from the story such as don’t discriminate other based on ethnicity and religion, how important to forgives people, risking life to help people, “There is a way to bee good again” is the best moral from the story and when you make mistakes you need to face the consequences and you should solve it. Although the language used in the book is not complicated, but the words used in the book are not really suitable for the young kids to read because there are number of events that are include violence, such as brutal execution, brutal beatings and
Set mostly in Afghanistan in the regime of Taliban, the book Kite Runner written by Khaled Hosseini has won many hearts from its reader. The book that first published in 2003 really deserves a title as The National Bestseller. Bringing the theme of friendship, betrayal, guilt, redemption and the uneasy love between fathers and sons this novel had me thrilled and moved, both at the same time. Hosseini successfully portrays the feeling of the characters and also the situational at that time, about social issues such as ethnic prejudice, gender politics and adolescent bullying.
When we read the book, in the first view chapters, we are introduced to the race and class in Afghanistan. One of the uniqueness from this book is the culturally accuracy of the story. There are two ethnic groups Pashtuns and Hazaras that be the central of the story. The Pashtuns and Hazaras are ranged differently in the society where the Pashtuns is the majority in Afghanistan while the Hazaras is the minority. Conflicts happen between these groups for a long time because of both racial and religious differences. In this story, we can see the different status between Pashtuns and Hazaras. Amir and Baba are Pashtuns while their servants Ali and Hassan are Hazaras. This is also why it is said that Amir never think of …show more content…
So after reading this book we can learn some good values from the story such as don’t discriminate other based on ethnicity and religion, how important to forgives people, risking life to help people, “There is a way to bee good again” is the best moral from the story and when you make mistakes you need to face the consequences and you should solve it. Although the language used in the book is not complicated, but the words used in the book are not really suitable for the young kids to read because there are number of events that are include violence, such as brutal execution, brutal beatings and