Kite Runner Racism

Racism plays significant roles in Khaled Hosseinis The Kite Runner. The reservoir uses racialism to describe the characters and the culture be in the stories. In The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini uses detriment as a tool to setify this point of betrayal and redemption. He pursues his story with preconceived opinion and racism in Afghanistan as well as in the unite States. While the author uses individual characters to aver the story, he portrays the general attitudes and history associated with the characters Hazara and Pashtun fond origins and the conflicts that arise in Afghanistan.Throughout history and in time while the story was taking emplacement in the 70s the US of A was issue through their tough times with racism and prejudice thoughts and acts towards other ethnical groups such(prenominal) as the blacks, Asians and Latinos. Although during this present era these antiblack acts and thoughts switch been cut down and have been limited to just some states in the south as where in Afghanistan these prejudice acts still exist. Ali and Hassan represent the marginalized group in this story. They are considered by the ruling class to be of lesser value due(p) to their ethnic origin, religious beliefs, appearance and social standing.The author gives us a behold of this when emeer reads about the harassment of, and act uprising 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 affaire Shia people do well, dismissal 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 always has been, always leave alone be. We are the true Afghans, the pure Afghans, non this Flat-Nose here.