Life In The Kite Runner

Afghanistan, citizens have carried on a tradition known as Kite Fighting to honor their families. Typically, the youth battle each other using kites to show dominance over each other. The rivalry is biggest between the two religious denominations, the Pashtun and the Hazaran. The novel The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini gives a striking example and walks you through the lives that the people in Afghanistan were living in the twentieth century through the main characters Hassan and Amir. Amir was from a well off Pashtun family, while Hassan was living the opposite following the Hazaran customs. Life in 1970’s Afghanistan was difficult and unfair because of the Soviet invasion, religious prejudice, and the corrupt government, the novel gives

This made the Afghanistan citizens life a struggle, no matter their religious denomination. The Soviet invasion forced many of the citizens in Afghanistan to leave their country so they won’t get their families mistreated. The life in Afghanistan was treacherous due to the Soviet Invasion. It was difficult to live in Afghanistan during the Soviet Invasion because the new government was calling out purges upon the citizens of Afghanistan by taking there land and forcing them out of a place to live. The Soviet invasion was the reason war was created when the head of the government named Mohammad Daud Khan was thrown out of power by Nur Mohammad Taraki the leader of the left wing military. He started to take people's land and forced them to leave by overpowering them. This is evidenced in the novel when Amir had to flee his country with his father so their lives wouldn’t be in danger by the bombs and attacks lead by the Soviet troops. This invasion was inequitable to many families in Afghanistan because, like Amir, they had to sell mostly everything they owned to afford their trip out of the country, giving up their wealthy

Religion was a big issue in Afghanistan in the mid 1900s, splitting the citizens of Afghanistan into two groups. One of the religions was Pashtun, and the other was Hazara. The differences they have in religion is that the Pashtun only worshipped one god named “Allah” and the Hazara worshipped multiple gods and followed the Koran. The Pashtun didn’t like the way that the Hazara believed in so many gods, and this led to judgment and hate from the Pashtun toward the Haraza. Another reason the Pashtun may have looked down upon the Hazara was because the Hazara were servants and farmers, and many of the Hazara worked for wealthy Pashtun families. This made it so unrightful for those who are born already under a religion, and have no choice but to follow it. For example, in the novel Hassan was born into an Hazaran family, and he was treated unreasonable due to his religion. As a Hazaran he was a slave of a rich family that where Pashtun. This made it hard for him to live because the community was primarily Pashtun, and this made the Hazaran a minority, and therefore, Hassan was an outcast. Those who followed the Hazaran religion were forced to either flee Afghanistan, or follow the Pashtun values. While Hasan was growing up, he was treated poorly and not seen as an equal to the Pashtun children., The Pashtun kids disliked Hazaras for no reason, only because it was