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Terrorism In The Kite Runner

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Afghanistan has long history being the central of wars and terrorism (AmirDabbaghian and Solimany, 2015). Amir has been using conflicts in Afghanistan – as well as his haunted past memories – as pretexts for unwilling to return to Afghanistan; the truth is, however, Amir embraces America from heart. His loyalty and attachment to America could be mirrored from him political and international relations viewpoints. Through personal direct encounters and second-hand information, Amir narrates the atrocities of the Soviet Union and the Taliban in Afghanistan. While Amir has made explicit his hostility to these invaders of Afghanistan, he intuitively omitted of the invasion of Northern Alliance and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) of America, which according to Noor (2004), mainly aimed to combat against the Soviet Union, instead of providing aid in restoring the peace in Afghanistan. Lines describing the conflicts in Afghanistan are not merely aimed to invoke empathy among readership, but also to reaffirm American readers’ belief that Afghanistan is in need of military aid to withstand terrorism, further justifying America’s intervention in the country. Moreover, …show more content…

The childhood trauma he instils in Amir characterized him as the greatest villain in the fiction. When tracing Amir’s journey returning home along the lines, readers’ empathic emotions towards the violence and poverty Amir observed – for example, the man selling his leg (281) and the woman stoned to death (292) – were transformed into uncontrollable anger and rage when the manipulator of these trauma is revealed to be Assef (Butler, 2012). His paedophilia, Nazism and the holocaust of Hazaras add hatred into his character. Characterizing Assef as a member of Taliban in such unfavourable light implied Hosseini’s perceptions of the Talibans are compatible with the American political

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