Hazara people

Afghan boy named Amir and his servant Hassan. Hassan comes from an ethnic group known as the Hazara that is, according to the book, generally mistreated and at a disadvantage from birth. Hassan is always a loyal friend to Amir, while Amir only hangs out with Hassan when nobody else is around. Amir realizes this when Assef, a bully that hates the Hazara, threatens to beat Amir up for being friends with a Hazara and Amir’s response is almost to reject him to save himself. Amir later allows Assef to rape

of Hassan- Mittih Rehman Social status allows the powerful to gain more power, while pushing the struggling individuals deeper into a hole. Hazaras ultimately are seen as the plebeian population of Afghanistan with minimal rights. In The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini, the protagonist Amir, a high level Afghan citizen befriends Hassan, a low class Hazara. Throughout the book, Amir’s treatment towards Hassan gradually begins to change and he develops a much more negative stance towards Hassan, similar

Afghan boy named Amir and his servant Hassan. Hassan comes from an ethnic group known as the Hazara that is, according to the book, generally mistreated and at a disadvantage from birth. Hassan is always a loyal friend to Amir, while Amir only hangs out with Hassan when nobody else is around. Amir realizes this when Assef, a bully that hates the Hazara, threatens to beat Amir up for being friends with a Hazara and Amir’s response is almost to reject him to save himself. Amir later allows Assef to rape

and Ethnic Discrimination in The Kite Runner An individual’s culture and religion often influences the way he or she thinks, feels, and behaves. A number of cultural aspects can impact the way an individual connects with others, and also affect how people face challenges and create relationships. Khaled Hosseini’s novel, The Kite Runner, portrays the story of two boys, Amir and Hassan, who as children had a powerful friendship. As they grew, Hassan’s ethnicity and religion negatively impacted the way

Pashtun, to accept, a subordinate Hazara, as a friend. The society prevents separates the two boys by downgrading Hassan and the other Hazaras. When looking through his mother's old books, Amir finds a book that talks about the oppression of the Hazaras that began a long time ago. The book says that “[Pashtuns] had killed the Hazaras, driven them from their lands, burned their homes, and sold their women” (9). This whole history of the oppression of the Hazaras is omitted from the school curriculum

discrimination not only builds an image of people in society but also drives most of their actions, defining who they become. The Kite Runner examines a wide range of racism: out-and-out hatred, religious justification of racism, nonviolent but still nasty racism, racism which coexists with generosity and kindness, and internalized racism which manifests itself as self-loathing. In the novel “The Kite runner”,

hierarchy of Pashtuns over Hazaras exists, Ali being a Hazara condemns him to a life of servitude, while Baba being a Pashtun leaves his life in his own hands. The reader is made aware of this unequal standing when Amir states, “Every morning, I watched from my window as their Hazara servant shovelled snow from the driveway, cleared the way for the black Opel.” (pg. 43) The author uses a metaphor here to portray the unfair treatment of Hazaras. The servant represents the Hazara people, while the black Opel

discrimination of a group of people in Afghanistan through the characters of Hassan and his father Ali. Hassan and Ali are Hazaras (the minority ethnic group), and also Shi'a Muslims (the minority religion). For centuries, Hazaras have been discriminated against and oppressed in Afghanistan. Hassan and Ali experience this marginalization and discrimination in their hometown of Kabul. In Chapter 2, Amir describes how the Pashtun children in the town would ridicule Ali and explains how the Hazara ethnic group was

Relationship: Khaled Hosseini uses the relationships between characters in The Kite Runner to demonstrate inequality in the Afghan society. Hassan and Amir come from different classes of society. Amir is a “Pashtun” and Hasan is a “Hazara”. Amir and Hassan grew up in the same house and they spent a lot of their childhood together. Amir and Hassan’s fathers have been living in the same house since their childhood, but Hassan’s father does not get the same rights as Amir’s dad. Hassan and his father

The main focus is the upper and lower classes. The upper class consists of Pashtuns and the lower class consists of Hazaras. The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini, follows the life of Amir growing up in Afghanistan and him returning during the Taliban uprising. The main conflict in Afghanistan involves the religious and cultural disagreements between the Hazaras and Pashtuns. The Hazaras are a minority and the Pashtuns are a majority. The social classes of Afghanistan were influenced by factors such