Motifs In The Kite Runner

The Kite Runner is a Bildungsroman/Literary Realism book which discusses the life of the main character, Amir who is having a manhood and moral crisis throughout his life. In the novel Hosseini creates a villain who is the definition of evil, Assef who is racist and believes that only high caste members should exist. The character Assef brings many themes including: racism, violence, ethnicity, and evilness, as in the book he shows how corrupted his character is. Throughout the novel his ways and ideology slowly progresses to a deeper villainous state, he goes from bully to a leader of the Taliban, a racist terrorist group made to kill the lower class and stay in charge. In Hosseini’s novel The Kite Runner, Assef uses Separatism

He mentions that he and Amir’s group the Pashtuns are the real/ pure breed and Hazaras are the fake/ half breeds.“Afghanistan is the land of Pashtuns.It always has been, always will be. We are the true Afghans, the Pure Afghans,not this Flat-Nose here….” “Afghanistan for Pashtuns, I say. That’s my vision” (Assef- Chapter 5 Pg.40). Assef has a quote that shows his Separatism qualities and how disgusted he is by the fact that Amir a Pashtun is friends with Hassan a Hazara.“You’re bothering me very much.In fact, you bother me more than this Hazara here.How can you talk to him, play with him,let him touch you?” (Assef- Chapter 5 Pg.41)Followed by one that expresses Assef’s want for Separation and death of all Hazaras, as he blames the kind Pashtuns and says that they should rot in their origin place the Hazara mountains.“If idiots like you and your father didn’t take these people in, we’d be rid of them by now.They’d all just go to rot in Hazarajat where they belong.” (Assef-Chapter 5 Pg.41) Late ron in the book the Kite Runner it is shown that Assef likes to torture people in any way and believes that he can do what he wants because of his caste. When he rapes Hassan he claims it was a small price after he was going to originally take the blue kite. “Assef knelt behind Hassan, put his hands on Hassan’s hips and lifted his bare buttocks….. He positioned himself behind Hassan.” (Amir- Chapter 7 Pg.75) These moments apply that Assef doesn’t care what he does to lower class people and that he is a truly evil and sick person, it also foreshadows that he will be a child rapist and