The True Horror The portrayal of the town Kabul in The Kite Runner is a very good look at how the Taliban is shown throughout the story. The Taliban patrols the town constantly leaving everyone watching their back and not feeling safe. The life of Kabul is dead, as are the people and the colors have faded. This shows that the town is not how it should be and is showing the destruction of the Taliban. The horror of the Taliban is shown in chapter 22 when Amir goes to the house where he tries Sohrab back. Amir is patted down by armed men who pulled off his beard and teased him. Amir is told gruesome stories about how the Taliban took control of the land. Assef walks in and all of his bad memories come back to him. Assef attacks Amir and is lucky he survived. Amir is only alive because Sohrab uses his sling-shot and shoots Assef, causing him to run
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The Taliban has had executions that took place in football stadiums to make sure they had a big audience. The description of how they buried two people and threw rocks at them until they were dead shows the extreme terror and horror of the public executions that are done just for entertainment purposes. Also this shows the true evil of the Taliban and shows how bad Afghan society has changed over the years. One of the biggest evil’s of the Taliban was the killing of Hassan and his wife.
After Amir had arrived in Peshawar, he found out about Hassan’s death. When Amir left Kabul, a Hazara family began living alone in Baba's house. The Taliban came to Baba’s house and demanded that the Hazara family must leave. Hassan refused and they took him out to the street and shot him in the back of his head. Farzana ran out screaming and they shot her too. This shows how bad the Taliban was by explaining how they exterminated the innocent Hazara family, which was Hassan and Farzana, for refusing to leave a house they were allowed to stay
The Taliban has had executions that took place in football stadiums to make sure they had a big audience. The description of how they buried two people and threw rocks at them until they were dead shows the extreme terror and horror of the public executions that are done just for entertainment purposes. Also this shows the true evil of the Taliban and shows how bad Afghan society has changed over the years. One of the biggest evil’s of the Taliban was the killing of Hassan and his wife.
After Amir had arrived in Peshawar, he found out about Hassan’s death. When Amir left Kabul, a Hazara family began living alone in Baba's house. The Taliban came to Baba’s house and demanded that the Hazara family must leave. Hassan refused and they took him out to the street and shot him in the back of his head. Farzana ran out screaming and they shot her too. This shows how bad the Taliban was by explaining how they exterminated the innocent Hazara family, which was Hassan and Farzana, for refusing to leave a house they were allowed to stay