Annotated Bibliography : The Kite Runner By Khaled Hosseini

Regardless, the Hazaras have still faced struggle. After the Taliban’s fall, the Bamiyan province, much of which was destroyed, received only a small amount of development aid. Likewise, even though the Karzai government policy promotes minority rights and six Hazaras are members of the cabinet, considerable amounts of funding goes towards the more powerful ethnic groups such as Pashtuns or Tajiks instead (Baldauf). Shortly after the events of 2001, the Hazarajat became one of the safest areas in Afghanistan due to the Hazaras being the first ethnic group to surrender their weapons to the government to support the peace process and promotion of human rights that the people of Afghanistan were striving for. During this time the Hazaras faced poverty, but they began to have more involvement in the democratic process (“Who are the Hazaras”). According to senior political analyst for the National Democratic Institute, Mohammad Musa Mahmundi, “Discrimination against the Hazaras continues even now… They can’t create conflict. They are not geopolitically located to be important to the government, so they will be neglected” (Baldauf). At the same time, the Hazara women have begun to hold important parts in social, economic, and

When Amir goes Kabul has to wear a fake beard in fear of the Beard Patrol will punish him. In the novel, the Pashtuns who are the good Muslims called Sunnis and the Hazara who are the bad Muslims called Shiites. The novel depicts that the Hazaras have been discriminated for dirtying the blood of Afghanistan. In the novel before the Taliban takes over, Pashtuns see Hazara as peasants. Baba even treats Hassan and Ali as second class citizens because of the ways of Afghani culture. The Taliban still kills, prejudices and kidnaps Hazaras who worship Allah. Also, the Taliban discriminates women by making them abide to these harsh rules and treating them as if they’re not even human. In order not attract the opposite sex, women have to wear burkas, a head to toe gown that covers the entire face. On the contrary, the Quran states “O children of Adam, We have bestowed upon you clothing to conceal your private parts and as adornment. But the clothing of righteousness - that is best.” (Quran 7:26) meaning women just have to be modest. Another problem Afghani women have to suffer with is that they can’t talk to men outside of their family. This can cause many problems such as if a woman needs to a doctor it cannot be a man, but The Taliban doesn’t allow girls to go to school which means there’s no women

Imagine living in Afghanistan circa 1979. Pro-communist Soviets have just invaded the homeland of millions and from that point on, life will never be the same again. For the next two decades, the country would be divided, vying for control of the land they love. It is no secret to the rest of the world that Afghanistan has been in turmoil for quite some time, especially because of the Taliban. However, Afghanistan was in trouble long before the Taliban made their appearance. Such examples besides the Taliban include the treatment of Hazaras by Pashtuns, significantly with the act of rape. One of the greatest depictions of life in Afghanistan comes from The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini. When Khaled Hosseini set out to write The Kite Runner,

Hazaras are the largest primarily Shia group in the country. Hazaras are supposedly ranked lowly in ethnic status, with many coming from rural areas of Afghanistan. They have maintained their ethnic identity mainly because of their lowly status which prevents other groups from marrying into

His people pollute our homeland, our watan” (Hosseini 40). Assef and many other Pashtuns believe that Hazaras are an inferior race to Afghan society. In Afghanistan, the social norm is always to treat the Hazara inhabitants very poorly and giving

The dissimilarities among them is quiet evident. Each of them have their own way of living, own beliefs, language and social status. Pashtuns are the largest ethnic group in Afghanistan. Their majority enables them to dominate over other ethnic groups. They hold the most reputed jobs, whereas Hazaras are the inhabitants of central regions of Afghanistan.

The book The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini is a fictional story that follows Amir, a Afgani refugee who fled during the revolution of the early 1980 's. Amir and his family 's servant Hassan would play together as kids, innocent to the world. Ignorant of any differences between them, neither socially nor ethnically. As 1974 approaches, war breaks out, and the reality these differences that they are so ignorant of begins to reveal itself. Their lives begin to change rapidly after the onset of war due to their ethnicities. The Kite Runner is a story about standing up for what is right, even if it cost much and the ability for redemption.

As a boy, Hosseini participated in a beloved cultural tradition known as kite fighting, which he reflects as a central focus in The Kite Runner through his protagonist Amir. Hosseini’s memories of Afghanistan deal mostly with “a lot of kite-flying, especially in the months of winter”, something that was important for him to incorporate into his novel ( ).Kite fighting was something Hosseini associated with being Afghan, so upon hearing the news that it was banned, Hosseini was inspired to share a story about his country, with elements of his own childhood tied into it ( 10). What began as a short story between two young boys grew into the renowned book it is today with a touch of Hosseini’s life added to it. In The Kite Runner, Amir struggles

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini is the story of a boy named Amir who lives in Kabul with his best friend Hassan. The pair of boys are inseparable until one day Hassan get raped by a gang of boys and Amir does not help Hassan out of fear. Afghanistan is split mainly into two ethnic groups, the Pashtun and the Hazaras. The Pashtuns make up the majority of Afghan population while the Hazaras are the minorities. In the Kite Runner friendship is a common thread that plays an essential role throughout the book. The friendships between Amir and Hassan, and Baba and Ali are shown to be disconnected, due to their racial differences.

Abdul Rahman's suppression of Hazara ranged from issuing unwarranted taxes and to assaults on Hazara women, massacres, looting and pillaging of homes, enslavement of Hazara children, women and men and replacement of Shi'a mullas with their Sunni religious counterparts. Hazarajat was occupied by Rahman in 1893 and it is estimated that 60% of the Hazara Population was wiped out by him . Due to that event some people from different ethnic groups think it is right to discriminate and prejudice against Hazara people. The Emir is the root of all the discrimination in Afghanistan and it still happens up to

Afghanistan is a country which has been suffering since the rise of the Taliban on October 10th of 1994. This group of people have caused a lot of vandalism to the world and mainly to the people of Afghanistan for years, and they still are. Many people create assumptions around things or countries they know nothing of and that has become a big problem because these assumptions might not be true.“For more folks in the west, Afghanistan is often a sound bite on CNN about the Taliban, or the soviet war or maybe the land mines, “he says, “But i don’t think a lot of people have a sense of the culture. Some people don’t know it snows in Kabul. They think it’s all deserts and hot” (Khaled and Cowan). Hosseini’s novels educate and somewhat minimize the stereotypes and

The national anthem of Afghanistan mentions as many as fifteen ethnicities! Therefore, a multiethnic country, like Afghanistan has an assortment of ethnicities. Afghanistan is made up of Pashtuns, Tajiks, Hazaras, Uzbeks, Aimaks, Turkmens, Balochs, Pashais, Nuristanis, Gujjars, Arabs, Brahuis, Pamiris. Since Afghanistan is a multiethnic country, it has adopted much culture from the ethnic groups of Afghanistan. Pashtuns, make up 42% of Afghanistan and make up the majority of the society. Afghanistan’s culture has a merge of all 15 ethnicities in it and it is expressed in The Kite Runner. In The Kite Runner diverse aspects of Afghanistan culture are uttered in example, public execution.

When we think about how we have grown up into who we are today, there are many different aspects that have shaped us. It could be our cultural backgrounds with family, childhood experiences, or just how we think as individuals. Author of The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini, is no exception to this as he reveals his fragile transformation of who he has become, growing up as a boy in 1965’s Kabul, Afghanistan. In this novel, the author captivates the true Afghan culture beyond the single story and gives us genuine insight into what has shaped him into the man he has become today. Khaled Hosseini uses these intimate relationships built between his family, culture, and himself, to show this transformation as a person throughout the novel.

It’s so easy for the reader to hastily judge and draw unfair conclusions about a character in a novel. It’s so easy for the reader to sit back and say to themselves, “He should’ve done this,” or “He should’ve have said that.” In fact, it’s so easy for any person, whether it be real-world or within literature, to gloss over the stress, the intensity, the trauma of being ensnared in a personal dilemma. Amir Khan was 12 years old when he peered down an alleyway from behind a corner wall as his childhood friend, Hassan, was brutally raped. Amir stood there, shaking from fear, and made a decision that would transform the rest of his life. He ran. However, any wise man knows that you cannot out-run your personal dilemmas, and for the rest of the novel, he encountered difficulties. Amir’s past is haunted by his memories and fills his conscious with regret, his experience shatters his childhood innocence and thrusts him into the grim reality of his society, and his soul challenged as he seeks repentance and cleansing. In Khaled Hosseini’s, “The Kite Runner,” Amir’s fateful decision not to act while his friend Hassan was cruelly sexually assaulted serves as a pivotal moment in shaping the greater meaning of the novel as a whole by exploring the topics of regret, loss of innocence, and soul-searching.

‘The Kite Runner’ by Khaled Hosseini is one of the wonderful and heartbreaking novel which describes the story of unlikely friendship between a wealthy boy and the son of his father’s servant. It was published in 2003 by Riverhead Books. It is Khalid Hosseini’s first novel. In this novel he discuss various themes like theme of Guilt, Redemption, Relationship between father and son and the most important themes of the issue of Cultural Identity and this gives a prominent feature to his novel. It also gives a short description of political and historical events of Afghan Monarchy in the 1970’s as well as it also throw light on his period of life which he spent in Kabul and then shifted to California. In this novel he also described the friendship