Discrimination In The Kite Runner

I don’t believe it is human nature to hate each other, but I do believe that we are taught from a young age to dislike each other. We believe that either we are “superior” than the other or that we “deserve” it more. From that thought we grow to hate one another and choose to do everything in our power to make other people feel small. Unfortunately, in the U.S. there is a long history of discrimination. Starting from the Europeans coming to the New World and discriminating the Native Americans to now candidates for presidential elections discriminating different cultures. Even in Lakeside there has been discrimination and divisions; some has been stopped, but not all of it. Most discriminations occurring are because of people having different

The five pillars is a way Muslims can follow basic rules just like every other religion, and be guided towards what is expected of them from their God. In the novel, The Kite Runner, the five pillars are represented in parts of the book. “There is no God but Allah and Muhammad is his messenger.” (Hosseini 346) In this quote Amir is referring to the first of the five pillars, the Shahada. “I prayed morning namaz while Soraya slept – I didn't have to consult the prayer pamphlet I had obtained from the mosque anymore; the verses came naturally now, effortlessly.”(Hosseini 364). This quote represents Salah, when Amir is reciting his daily prayers. “In the late 1960s when I was five or six, Baba decided to build an orphanage.” (Hosseini 13). Baba was sharing his wealth to the less fortunate which is one of the five pillars, the Zakat. “I throw my makeshift jai-namaz, my prayer rug, on the floor and I get on my knees, lower my forehead to the ground, my tears soaking through the sheet. I bow to the west.” (Hosseini 346) Amir starts praying in the hospital after Sohrab had the accident, here the second of the five pillars, the Salah, is represented. The fourth pillar is also represented, “I will fast during Ramadan…” (Hosseini 346). Many things from the five pillars of Islam had an influence in guiding Hosseini, the author of The Kite Runner, to give his readers a better understanding of Amir’s