Pashtun people

Since Ahmad Shah Durany Afghanistan had an empire and provincial kingdom until King Abdur Rahman Khan Era; he created a strong central state and wanted to monopolize the state power over afghan people. But during King Abdur Rahman Khan Afghanistan become a renter state that also, modernization emerged as a result of conflict between two major power British and Russia which they used Afghanistan as buffer zone. According to the Charles Tilly’s theory

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

open and tolerant, people still discriminate against others due to their looks and beliefs. Hosseini portrays these conditions of racism and discrimination in The Kite Runner through interactions between Amir and his ‘servant’ friend Hassan, and also through interactions between Hassan and others, who is often the victim of racist actions and dialogue. The socioeconomic conditions in Afghanistan during this time show the inequality between the majority (Sunni Muslims/Pashtuns in this case) and the

between two different subgroups in Afghanistan, the Pashtuns and Hazaras. People fight for their own rights and what they believed in, though, one of the groups gets more advantage and more superior that the other. In this book, Pashtuns are the most powerful and most dominant ethnic group in Afghanistan. They are more in control of what's around them than the Hazaras. One of the reasons why Pashtuns had oppressed the Hazaras is because of simply “Pashtuns were Sunni Muslims, while Hazaras were Shi’a.”

is the social separation of Hazaras and Pashtuns. Hosseini includes the historical, yet horrific, massacre of Hazaras in Mazar-I Sharif in 1998 to maintain a consistent timeline of Afghanistan and further support the theme of disconnection. The conflict between Pashtuns and Hazaras dates back to the time when the Mongols had conquered most of Asia, the Middle East, and were invading Eastern Europe. Within the Middle East, Afghanistan was

The Kite Runner is a story about what the people of Afghanistan had and have to go through in everyday life. Afghanistan is a country that is divided between political powers and has religiously idealistic views and beliefs in which results in the creation of poverty, and violence among the people. Afghanistan's culture and traditions is the main basis of the storyline as for the lives of the people who live in Kabul. The Kite runner serves as an eye-opener of a country with such great amount of

People are different in many ways. Ranging from colour of their skin to their ethnic backgrounds. How society copes with these differences is what defines prejudice and discrimination. Racism, social class and ethnicity have become a never ending cycle that begins to shape the opinions of how people treat one another. The novel The Kite Runner written by Khaled Hosseini revolves around a society constructed around two socially diverse ethnic groups the Pashtuns who practice Sunni Islam and the Hazaras

Afghanistan. The Afghan society places Hazaras as lower than the Pashtuns; the Hazaras were of Mongol descent and were mocked for their asian resemblances. Pashtuns have gone to the extent of excluding Hazaras out of their history textbooks, proving Afghanistan belongs to them. Pashtuns have a majority of the wealth and power in Afghanistan; they want to remain in supremacy so that they maintain ruling over the Hazara people. Majority of Pashtuns see the Hazaras as unworthy or undeserving of living in Afghanistan

is a divide between the Pashtuns and the Hazaras; the Pashtuns are upper class citizens who are treated with respect while the Hazaras are lower class, minority citizens who are treated poorly. Because of the contrasting history of the two groups, their responses to the Taliban’s takeover of Kabul were complete opposites. The Pashtuns “danced on [the] street,” (Hosseini 200) while the Hazaras cried “God help the Hazaras now” (Hosseini 213). The conflict between the Pashtuns and Hazaras in “The Kite

his being a Hazara. It examines his relationships with people at different levels in society and different social backgrounds, and the implications of the decisions he makes.The novel The Kite Runner provides ample evidence of the oppression of the minorities