Theme Of Ethnic Tension In The Kite Runner

The time I chose a social class and ethnic cleansing and the reason I chose that is because I think that social class differences and that ethnic tension is increasing throughout the book. In the beginning you just know that the ethnic tension is between the Hazaras and the Pashtuns, but with each chapter this social class differences and discrimination increases, which also leads to more tension between the main character, Amir and his best friend, Hassan. Something else to add is that in the beginning as there was a lot of tension between the Pashtuns and Hazaras but no one has truly express their feelings and everyone would blame Baba and Amir were being are being blamed for having such close relationships between the Hazara as Amir was …show more content…
The Hazaras usually work for a Pashtun like how is Hassan and Ali work for Baba, and the Pashtuns are the upper class of the society while the Hazaras are seen as the weak or the fault in the community.There is a lot of ethnic tension between bought that new troops throughout the book but it really gets high during the end and I 'm going to add that and examples however you also get to see how much tension there is between both the groups as there is a lot of differences between both groups and some of the cultural differences is that the Hazaras pray and are more cultural compared to the Pashtuns, which would also lead to the reason for there tension. However in the society there are also some people who do not care about those difference like Baba as he never discriminated between Ali and himself, I would not like to add Hassan as an example because it could be because he was his son and he wanted to protect and care for him like a father although he was never able to tell him the truth.Another type of ethnic tension is between the communist and the Afghanistans because they have different social views and difference between how they think and want to rule the …show more content…
The first example would be in chapter 3 when it is shown that the Hazaras do not have an education as in that chapter Amir goes to school while Hassan stays home and does the chores. This shows a lot of things between the two classes first that the Pashtuns are the rich class as they can afford to give their children an education while the Hazaras make their children work for money. Another example I would like to add is of Ali’s story that is told in Chapter 4. His story tells a lot of things about himself and also about the Hazara community, like the first example is about how Ali and Baba became friends and just like Hassan and Amir their ethnicity differences did not stop them from becoming friends. The second example was how because of Ali’s physical characteristics this boy would always make fun of him when he was in the Bazar going to buy naan and kabab. Another thing is that in one of the next chapters when Amir mentions how the houses are different and also about Ali’s marriage history. The houses differences shows the different social status both this groups had while the marriage history of Ali shows that the Hazaras can do anything to help their loved ones, as Ali got married to his cousin because they were having some trouble