Immigration In The Kite Runner

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After reading "the kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini, the story connects well with the situation that refugees go through during immigration to the United States. Even though it's a fiction novel it connects with the main events from it being to health problems to settlement similarities. Overall the book clearly shows with the struggles of afghan immigration to the United States.

During immigration afghans had certain ways they wanted things to be when relocating and only few could relocate. Immigration was mainly done by upper-class just like Baba and Amir. Large numbers arrived in the 1980's when the Soviet Union invaded. This is very similar to what happened with Baba and Amir because they were smuggled into the U.S with a large group

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