The Caste System
The difficulty of having loyalty outside of your caste system is that movement between castes is next to impossible because of the disrespect for lower castes. Throughout the book, The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini demonstrates the disrespect and discrimination and the injustices of the caste system.
One example of injustice in the Afghanistan culture is the inability to move up in the caste system. Once you have been identified as just a Hazara, for example, it is very unlikely that anyone will ever see you as anything more important. A caste system is a pyramid that represents the different levels in the Afghanistan society. The people in Afghanistan don’t get to choose their caste; they were born into them and it is nearly impossible to move up the caste system. Imagine the caste system as a …show more content…
One example of this injustice in The Kite Runner is, “‘It’s just a Hazara,’” Assef said. But Kamal kept looking away. ‘Fine,’ Assef snapped. ‘All I want you weaklings to do is hold him down. Can you manage that?’” (Pg 75) In this quote you see that Assef says “It’s just a Hazara” which shows he has no respect for Hazaras to where he refers to Hasaan as an it. This is taken from the rape scene, where Assef excuses his unaaceptable behavior because he is only harming a Hazara. According to the International Dalit Solidarity Network everyone is born into his or her caste system. So people who are discriminated against are only discriminated because that’s what they were born into and can’t help what they are born into. Which makes it wrong altogether to discriminate against the lower castes because if they could they would move up their caste systems. The lowest possible caste is called the untouchables. These people are born into poverty and never escape it. Their job and housing options are limited to only the most demanding and dangerous ones leftover from the rest of the town’s
The difficulty of having loyalty outside of your caste system is that movement between castes is next to impossible because of the disrespect for lower castes. Throughout the book, The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini demonstrates the disrespect and discrimination and the injustices of the caste system.
One example of injustice in the Afghanistan culture is the inability to move up in the caste system. Once you have been identified as just a Hazara, for example, it is very unlikely that anyone will ever see you as anything more important. A caste system is a pyramid that represents the different levels in the Afghanistan society. The people in Afghanistan don’t get to choose their caste; they were born into them and it is nearly impossible to move up the caste system. Imagine the caste system as a …show more content…
One example of this injustice in The Kite Runner is, “‘It’s just a Hazara,’” Assef said. But Kamal kept looking away. ‘Fine,’ Assef snapped. ‘All I want you weaklings to do is hold him down. Can you manage that?’” (Pg 75) In this quote you see that Assef says “It’s just a Hazara” which shows he has no respect for Hazaras to where he refers to Hasaan as an it. This is taken from the rape scene, where Assef excuses his unaaceptable behavior because he is only harming a Hazara. According to the International Dalit Solidarity Network everyone is born into his or her caste system. So people who are discriminated against are only discriminated because that’s what they were born into and can’t help what they are born into. Which makes it wrong altogether to discriminate against the lower castes because if they could they would move up their caste systems. The lowest possible caste is called the untouchables. These people are born into poverty and never escape it. Their job and housing options are limited to only the most demanding and dangerous ones leftover from the rest of the town’s