Class In The Kite Runner

Ethnicity and class plays an important role in nowadays society, it aims to group the same type people together. Some of the way to classify or distinguish people is by their race, economical statue, language and also their habitat. Although the word ethnicity and class aren’t any negative word but the outcome of classifying people, often lead to a bad influence on someone life development. During the WW2, the Germany considered the Jews as a degrading class of human being, resulting in an annihilation of them. Many of them resulted in spending rest of their life in concentration camp and suffering in hunger. While in the book, Hazara are considered as the degraded class in Afghanistan. Such label has a great impact on them and people who …show more content…
From the very first day that he was born, he had already been undergoing unfairness. He didn’t have the chance to study in a school like what Amir did. Instead, he was born as a servant in Baba and Amir’s house with Ali his father. This shows the difference of treatment they have in Afghanistan, between Pastun and Hazara. From the quote “While I ate and complained about homework, Hassan made my bed, polished my shoes, ironed my outfit for the day, and packed my books and pencils.” (Hosseini 29) Shows that the growth of being a Hazara kid and Pastun kid is way different, Hazara can’t enjoy proper education due to the relatively low state they have in the society. The social state of a community also shaped one’s personality. Hassan was consider as a weaker side comparing to Amir. “Then Hassan did pick up a pomegranate. He walked toward me. He opened it and crushed it against his own forehead. ‘There,’ he croaked, red dripping down his face like blood. ‘Are you satisfied? Do you feel better?’ He turned around and started down the hill” (Hosseini 93). This quote revealed that Hassan refused to fight back his master, Ali because of the stigmas placed on the Hazara people in Afghanistan, shaping his coward