Marxist Kite Runner

In the contemporary world, and especially in regions under capitalist economies, there are inherent and inevitable distinction between the rich and the poor. This distinction naturally creates classes such that rich people belong to a different class from the poor people. Another analogy, which is the principle focus of this paper, is that the people who work for money or who work for other people are associated to the lower class, the working class. Khaled Hosseini’s novel The Kite Runner published in 2003, presenting characters of virtually differing classes in this context, greatly highlights the adversities of the people belonging to the working class. Using the Marxist perspective of economic uniformity in mankind as a reference tool,

Hassan and his father, Ali, were servants of Amir’s father, Baba. Although they lived as one family, the class differences brought about conflicting issues that led to their separation. The author uses Marxist principles to indicate that it is very difficult for people to get along if they belong to different classes. Apart from the class conflicts that led to the separation of Amir from his friend Hassan, there many other examples of interclass conflicts or suggesting expressions in the novel that the author uses to indicate the tension between different classes. As so, the novel lays bare an inherent existence of conflict between different classes. In the end, the novel presents the people belonging to the working class as weaker, dispensable and as victims of

From the beginning of the novel, Amir describes that Hassan was his immediate friend with whom they roamed the streets of Kabul (Hosseini 3). Even so, Amir felt superior to Hassan in many ways unknowingly. When they did something wrong together, Hassan mostly took the whole blame. Hassan was completely loyal to Amir while the latter almost always manipulated Hassan. Amir says that even when they made a mistake of which original idea was his, Hassan humble took the blame (Hosseini 4). This shows that there are inherent forces related caused by the subconscious mind owing to which particular class one belongs to (Jameson 3). At their tender ages, it is needless to mention that Hassan did not consciously realize that he was succumbing to blame at the expense of his friend because he belonged to the working class. A similar scenario is shown in the novel when Amir deceives his father into believing that Hassan had stolen his watch (Hosseini 105). Marxist perspective insists that when people are equal economically, they are bound to respect each other and treat each other fairly. By contrast, due to the same subconscious and natural class-related force, Baba does not question Amir’s accusations. Instead, Baba confronts Hassan. The author confirms that it is only the people belonging to the working