Prejudice as Seen in The Kite Runner

In the novel The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini intentionally utilizes setting to play a pivotal affair in the portrayal of an important concentrate when narrating a post 9/11 Afghan and American novel; loss. The authors deliberate incorporation of Afghan and American settings over a 3 decade sentence frame successfully illustrates the differences and similarities amongst Eastern culture and westward culture, as well as highlighting the prejudice all(prenominal) culture cultivates. The emphasis fit(p) upon the discrimination of Hazaras by the Pashtuns not only in tropes the readers of the oppressor/oppressed socio-economic traffic in Afghanistan but in addition addresses a parallelism of prejudice towards Afghanis from Americans. Hosseini breaks down post 9/11 stereotypes by video display that a persons socio-economic class or ethnic group does not determine their ability to form friendships, feel guilt and explore redemption. Khaled Hosseini rehumanizes a culture which h as been demonized by the generalizations of umteen individual Americans and many Hollywood films. He does this by developing universal themes which leaven that Afghans and Americans have more in common than they may think.\nKhaled Hosseini measuredly utilizes the Afghan setting to give away the internal and external difference of opinion Amirs childishness friendship with Hassan resulted in because of the obstacle involved in maintaining an mixed relationship in 1960-1980 capital of Afghanistan Afghanistan. Hassan and I fed from the aforementioned(prenominal) breast, we took our first steps on the kindred lawn in the same yard. And under the same roof, we wheel spoke our first speech communication. Mine was Baba. His was Amir. This is unveil as both sons first boys represent the people they looked up to most. Hassans first word symbolizes his subjective inferiority to Amir. This suggest from the novel confronts the inherent role of superiority that Amir was capable to enjoy as a Pashtun. The author uses this incident to figure the dominant/submissive natu...