Kite Runner Racism Essay

Racism plays important roles in Khaled Hosseinis The kite Runner. The author uses racism to describe the characters and the culture represented in the stories. In The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini uses disadvantage as a tool to tell this story of betrayal and redemption. He pursues his story with prejudice and racism in Afghanistan as well as in the United States. While the author uses respective(prenominal) characters to tell the story, he portrays the general attitudes and history associated with the characters Hazara and Pashtun ethnic origins and the conflicts that arise in Afghanistan.Throughout history and plain while the story was taking place in the 70s the US of A was termination through their tough times with racism and prejudice thoughts and acts towards other ethnical groups such as the blacks, Asians and Hispanics. Although during this present era these racist acts and thoughts have been cut down and have been limited to just few states in the south as where in Afgha nistan these prejudice acts still exist. Ali and Hassan represent the marginalized group in this story. They argon considered by the ruling class to be of lesser value due to their ethnic origin, religious beliefs, manner and social standing.The author gives us a glance of this when emeer reads about the harassment of, and attempted develop of the Hazara, and how Amirs people, the Pashtuns had quelled them with unspeakable violence. The disregard that people have for the Hazara is reinforced when Amir asks his teacher about what he has read and he responds by saying, Thats one thing Shia people do well, passing themselves as martyrs. Assef shows how internalized this hostility is when he says to Amir and Hassan, Afghanistan is the land of the Pashtuns. It forever and a day has been, always will be. We are the true Afghans, the pure Afghans, not this Flat-Nose here.