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The Kite Runner: Inequality For Women

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Did you know Afghanistan is ranked as one of the worst countries in the world to be born a women? For years we constantly see on the news how women are mistreated in their own country by the Taliban. In The Kite Runner written by Khaled Hosseini, inequality for women is a major situation. Women have poor health care, limited freedom and are victims of physical and or sexual abuse. Hosseini perfectly describes how women are portrayed and have poor health care in Afghanistan. In the beginning of the novel Amir talks about his and Hassan's mother. “Hassan lost his mother less than a week after he was born”( Hosseini ). Amir’s mother died during childbirth due to hemorrhage, meaning the escape of blood from a ruptured blood vessel. The average death during childbirth is 460 per 100,000 people live births. More than 30 to 40 of women in afghanistan do not have access to health care. It is not accessible to those in rural …show more content…

It is estimated that 90 percent of women experience abuse in their lifetime. A group of soldiers in the novel mock Hassan about his mother. “I knew your mother, did you know that? I knew her real good” (Hosseini 5). This shows a male's selfish mentality. Many women get beat by their husbands own husbands and cannot do anything about it. “When they beat me, they would tell me, ‘You're all alone scream as loud as you want, there is no one here to hear you’. (Sadia)

Although The Kite Runner is a great novel about love and family, Hosseini does a great job at recognizing the Afghan society on women's poor health, abuse and limited freedom. During this novel about the life story of Amir and his family Hosseini give the readers a view on how women are portrayed in Afghanistan. Sadly until this day women continue to live in misery. Luckly there are shelters and organizations trying to help Afghani women to have hope in

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