Kite Runner Women's Rights Essay

Over the many of years Afghanistan women have rights and regulations they have to follow. The taliban have made many laws for women of Afghanistan and also have enforced women not to be able to have an education. In some cases women have been used as targets and just been killed for doing simple things. In the book the Kite Runner the major theme of the book is the rights of women in Afghnistan affected by lack of education, isalmic law and religion.

The Taliban have taken over Afghanistan and have taken over the womens rights. The women arent allowed to do anything without a someone with them. There equality was taken away from the women but they were still expected to be submissive to their husbands. The women in Afghanistan had to obey to the laws even if they …show more content…
Not to long after that they could not leave their house and windows had to be blackened to hide women from outside viewers. The Taliban also forced most women to quit work when they arrived and also forbade them from being educated. If a woman broke any of these laws she was either beaten or killed. During this time the women could look face to face to any man they had to look down and let their blood relative speak. If a women was to speak to another man while out with a blood relative they would be killed or beaten badly. To me the women of Afghanistan had to be like the perfect person who just needed to stay in their home with no education or anything. An example of the women facing a man is between soroya and amir “She was a shy woman, so courteous she spoke in a voice barely higher than a whisper and she would not raise her pretty hazel eyes to meet my gaze” (Hosseini 217) . The way she acted when they were talking about marrige is the interaction between men and women that cant happen is