When Amir went back to Afghanistan and explained how different it it looked compared to when he used to live there. Fadrid explained how the Taliban took control of Afghanistan and how they would roam the streets. The Taliban “drive around looking. Looking and hoping that someone will provoke them. Sooner or later, someone always obliges. Then the dogs feast and the day’s boredom is broken at last and everyone says ‘Allah-u-akbar!’” (Hosseini 248). The Taliban patrol the streets hoping that someone tries to stand up for themselves and then the Taliban soldiers say ‘Allah-u-akbar’ and beat that person in the middle of the streets. The region of Afghanistan in the story was under control of the Taliban. It was hard for people in the region to