Imperialism In The Kite Runner

The Kite Runner deals with the country of Afghanistan from the 70s to the year 2002. Afghanistan means "Land of Afghan," Afghan is a reputation the Pashtun majority accustomed to describe themselves beginning the year 1000. The country's capital is Kabul. It is a mountainous landlocked republic in Central Asia is bordered by Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan to the north, Iran in the west, Pakistan in east and south and it has a small stretch of border in the north east with both China and India. Like all places, Afghanistan contains a long and complex history, however, it came to international attention solely after the year 1973.

From the starting point of the novel, Afghanistan was a monarchy dominated by King Zahir Shah. In 1973,

These reforms incensed groups of Afghans who believed in adherence to ancient and religious laws. These factions began to challenge the government so rigorously that in 1979, the Soviet Army entered Afghanistan, starting an occupation that will last a decade. This is often the historical purpose within the novel once Baba and Amir leave Afghanistan. Throughout the 10 years of Soviet occupation, internal Muslim forces put up a resistance. Farid and his father are examples of these mujahideen men engaged in a war on the side of Islam. The United States was one of the countries that supported the resistance, due to its own anti-Soviet policies. When the Soviet Troops finally withdrew in 1989, Afghanistan remained beneath PDPA for three additional years. Then in 1992, within the wake of the collapse of the Soviet Union and therefore Soviet support for the government, the mujahideen finally won Afghanistan and reborn it to an Islamic

Rahim Khan describes the worry in Kabul throughout this point. He remembers, "The infighting between the factions was fierce and no one knew if they would live to see the end of the day. Our ears become accustomed to the rumble of gunfire, our eyes familiar with the sight of men digging bodies out of piles of rubble. Kabul in those days... Was as close as you could get to that proverbial hell on earth." Then in 1996, the Taliban took control of Kabul. After such a lot of years of insecurity and violence, the individuals welcome the takeover. Rahim Khan remembers, "... we all celebrated in 1996 when the Taliban rolled in and put an end to the daily fighting." The Taliban were a bunch of Pashtun supremacists who banded along and took nearly complete management of the country. Despite their heat initial reception, they shortly created life in Afghanistan dangerously once more. Being Sunni supremacists, they consistently massacred Shias as well as the Hazara individuals. They additionally enacted fundamentalist laws, most magnificently that prohibition in music and dance, and people are severely limiting women's rights. When Amir went back to Afghanistan, we saw how the Taliban used fear and violence to control the individuals of Afghanistan, particularly the frequent executions in the Ghazi sports