Slayden Hayes Psychological Effects

Slayden Hayes expresses that Islamic fundamentalists continued to oppose the government. With help from the United States, camps were set up in order to provide the proper training on how to use the mass of large weaponry they also received. They saw themselves fighting in a "Holy War" and the Arabs joined in to try to help them out and hopefully defeat the Soviet Union (33). The people who most opposed the form of government chosen by the Soviets did have some help from outside groups and countries. The problems that one small country was having, impacted the world and got many other groups and countries involved in trying to help. The Soviets didn 't see a point in maintaining control in Afghanistan, so they withdrew in 1989. The CIA also …show more content…
Amir finally comes face to face with the Taliban for the first time ever. He had seen them before but never in person. He suddenly felt this sense of complete anxiety and terror. He tried to talk himself out of the fear. But they kept getting closer to him and his fear took control (Hosseini, 247). The Taliban, as a whole, gave everyone around them a sense of uneasiness. They had major control of the people in Afghanistan and the people’s mental psyche would do whatever they were told. The people lived in constant fear of the Taliban because of the domination that they had over everyone in Afghanistan. Slayden Hayes emphasizes that the Taliban had the intention of creating a theocratic government with traditional interpretation of the Koran. They instituted that women needed to remain covered up in additional to wearing a veil on their head. The women also were not allowed to receive a proper education or hold a job besides the usual housework (34). The women during Taliban had very little control in what they could do and how they could dress. They were expected to not only act in a certain way, but also look a certain way. They had no opportunity for self-expression or self-confidence because they were constantly put down. Amir questions if Sohrab had seen the brutal Taliban take his parents out into the street and murder them. He hoped it was not true, but the chances were unlikely (Hosseini, 317). The inhumanity of the Taliban was scarring for all who witnessed it. The people involved with the Taliban did not see what they were doing as wrong. They thought that it was their duty and mission to rid Afghanistan of the Hazara. They thought that they were right and that they were meant to be ruling in this way. They saw everyone else as wrong. The owner of the orphanage tells Amir and Farid that he