Hazara people

of the 25,000 kids that die daily due to the environment they live in. In Khaled Hosseini 's novel, The Kite Runner, it doesn’t get into the depth of poverty that more than half of Afghan children live in but it does stress on the orphans and the Hazara children and how their rights to be children have been violated. As a child, you…

questioned if Hassan or Ali would still be alive if it were not for his actions, “Maybe Baba would have brought them along to America. Maybe Hassan would have had a home of his own now, a job, a family, a life in a country where no one cared that he was a Hazara” (226). Throughout Amir’s thoughts, it is inferred that he blamed himself for stealing Hassan’s opportunity for a different life.…

Despite the atrocities of someone's past, an individual can portray the ability to recover as a result of genuine acts of goodwill. Anguish, and traumatization, can help drive strong individuals to become more determined to redeem themselves. Redemption is essentially one of the main themes of "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini. Amir, the protagonist of the novel, scrambles through his childhood to overcome sins he does not fully understand. Throughout the novel Amir is constantly feeling…

guilt follows. Guilt distorts the minds of people, and in some cases, it leaves people wishing to rewind to the past. The battles with guilt are never ending and it is the individual choice whether they let their guilt overwhelm them. Khaled Hosseini’s novel, The Kiterunner surrounds some characters with guilt and redemption. He was born in Kabul, Afghanistan, in 1965 and is the oldest of five children. Hosseini has a childhood friend who is a Hazara and lives in a comfortable lifestyle. His…

The backbone of almost every Afghan person is the Pashtunwali Code of Honor, it is the basis of the Pashtun religion ("Peoples and Ethnic Groups–Pashtunwali: The Code”). In the book The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini, Baba tries to make up for committing sexual relations with a woman who was not only had Hazara but his best friend’s wife. He feels the need to convince everyone he holds the positions of the most noble man in Afghanistan. Baba proved his dignity through his dedication to the…

Hassan has full trust in Amir, and complete honesty about everything. While Amir, felt the need to hide the truth and fake his friendship. Amir’s view on honesty is shown when Hosseini writes, “And that’s the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too”(Hosseini 55). Hassan only thought about the truth and telling Amir what he really felt, but Amir just told Hassan what he wanted to hear. Without honesty, friendships can not survive…

here. His people pollute our homeland, our watan. They dirty our blood.” He made a sweeping, grandiose gesture with his hands. Afghanistan for Pashtuns, I say. That’s my vision” (Hosseini 40). Amir disagreed with Assef’s vision and this proves that Amir was unable to defend his beliefs his best friend Hassan is a Hazara the exact people Assef was mocking the same people Assef wanted out of Afghanistan but Amir just listened he didn’t state that he believes that his best friend and his people are…

Throughout history people used kites for survival. The kite dates back to 4th/5th (B.C.) Century China. In 196 B.C., General Han Hsin flew a kite over the enemy palace to determine how far his soldiers would need to dig to enter the palace. In 549 A.D., Emporer Wudi of China used a kite during war to request reinforcement. The kite remained a secret from Europe until Marco Polo brought stories of the kite back from China in 1295. America 's history consists of a day when Benjamin Franklin (1752)…

times of need, be a shoulder to cry on and share your best experiences with. This was not the case for Hassan and Phineas. In The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini, Amir (a wealthy Pashtun boy) surrenders the dignity of his best friend Hassan (a poor Hazara boy), only to be haunted by the guilt of his choice, sending him to make done what is right many years later. In A Separate Peace by John Knowles, Gene allows his jealousy to dictate his actions, creating a tormenting guilt inside him while…

affected less than the others because he left to Pakistan and made his life there until he feels it is time to go. - Assef abuses his power and decides to join the Taliban. He decides to do “ethnic cleansing” in Afghanistan and kills a mass number of people for no reason. Due to the politics in Afghanistan, he is able to do this with no…