Hazara people

flashbacks from the perspective of the main character Amir reflecting on his life up until he receives a life altering phone call. Amir is a Sunni Muslim who is born and raised in Kabul, Afghanistan. Baba, his father, is a businessman. They live with two Hazara Shia Muslim servants, Ali and his son Hassan. Amir and Hassan grow up as best friends. A traumatic childhood event that impacts Amir occurs when he witnesses Hassan being raped by the neighborhood bully Assef. He sits idle and does not…

lives, actions, and personalities is tremendous. First, they all have the same loyal, modest character traits, which leads them to soar high in the eyes of Baba and Amir. They all have similar defects and flaws such as “smile paralysis” and their Hazara religion, which fundamentally leads to their downfall. They are also all essentially orphans. The main reason their…

First and foremost, Assef belittles Hazara people by treating them as if they were a lower class of human beings. A demonstration of his hatred is when Assef rapes a young Hazara boy named Hassan (Forster, 2007). Assef like Atiq belittles others and have feelings of superiority because of their apparent “higher status”. One of the Soviet Union soldier in this…

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini is a novel about two boys who grew up in Kabul, Afghanistan. Both boys grew up living with their fathers and no mother in the picture; Amir’s mother died during childbirth and he now lives with his father Baba, Hassan’s mother ran away soon after she gave birth to him and he now lives with his father Ali where they work as Baba and Amir’s servants. The boys only one year apart grow up best friends but one day everything will change. In the beginning of the…

unbalance of power. In The Lord of the Flies is about a group of boys stranded on an uninhabited island. The boys try to govern themselves and it results in the two groups having their own ideas of how to handle the situations. In The Kite Runner, the Hazaras suffer because of the oppression they receive from the Pashtuns. In the novel, Amir and Hassan, struggle to uphold their friendship through religious and cultural differences. In The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini and Lord of the Flies by…

superior tells him off, and the father is graciously thanked by the woman’s husband. Amir and Baba experienced this situation. Baba is brave in this scene while Amir is a coward who did not want to stand up to the soldier and risk losing Baba. Many people in the world are cowards, and Amir is proven to be one. Amir is full of fear in Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner, but he finds courage throughout the journey of his life. When Amir is young, he is as courageous as a mouse. As a child, Amir…

In the first few chapters of Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner, the stark contrast between Amir and Hassan’s strong relationship and its demolition highlights one of the book’s major themes, which is even explicitly mentioned by Rahim: if people form a relationship which is actively being deterred by society, societal pressure will inevitably destroy it (99). Furthermore, it establishes some of the book’s most prominent motifs, those of betrayal and deception. Prior to their falling out, Amir…

People face pressure in their lives every day, especially in college, because students are working hard to get a successful job. Why is the Massachusetts Institute of Technology the university with the highest suicide rate in America? Could it be because pressure, whether academic, social, peer, or environmental tend to affect young people in a negative way? By comparing and contrasting social pressure, peer pressure and environmental pressure in Lord of the Flies by William Golding and The Kite…

"Too late we learn, a man hold his friend unjudged, accepted, trusted to the end" (John Boyle O'Reilly). Khaled Hosseini's account of The Kite Runner demonstrated an incomprehensible measure of adoration, trust, and treachery towards two totally diverse individuals. Amir, the child of an affluent and understood man in the northern zone of Kabul, builds up a companionship with one of his workers named Hassan. As years advanced, Amir had an opportunity to spare Hassan however the way he acted…

The novel’s title, The Kite Runner, introduces a position in the game that the people of Afghanistan play. Hassan is the kite runner in the beginning of the novel, running kites for Amir. The game is won by tearing the string of other player’s kites. There is definitely some competition, but it is taken to a new level when it’s mentioned…