When We Were Children In The Kite Runner

Imagine being in the midst of a war where 70,000 Afghan military and police died and 46,319 Afghan civilians died.Afghanistan has gone through many changes. It started as a very peaceful and beautiful place. Soon the Taliban came and completely transformed the country. It transitioned them into a war zone where bombs and people were getting attacked around every corner. Kabul used to be a peaceful place where children would run around and fly their kites. In the 1960s Kabul was in what most people call their Golden Era, this is the equivalent to the Roaring 20s in the US. This was where many people thrived and lived their best lives together. The city is famous for its mosques, gardens, and temperate year-round weather. The website says, “Kabul

Not only were the adults relaxing with a great economic status, but the children were also having fun and relaxing. They knew their parents were doing great and taking care of everything. In the book The Kite Runner, the author wrote “When we were children,...We took turns in the mirror as we ate mulberries, pelted each other with them, giggling, laughing”(p.3) This shows that a long time ago they were very happy hanging out together in the open where anyone could see them. Children are without care in the world. They had no idea what was about to hit them. In 1979 Kabul was attacked by the Soviet

It flashed again and was followed by a rapid staccato of gunfire.” (p. 28) This is an example of Amir and Hassan's first time hearing gunshots or any sign of war at all. This experience was pretty traumatizing for them. This must have been an example of what children all across the city were going through during the tough times of war. On another website it says “It was in the early 1970s that Afghanistan entered into the spiral of governmental instability, insurgency, outright civil war and foreign interventions that has plagued it to the present day” (The Great Game). This was probably when the citizens started to worry about what was going to happen next. The landscape of their own country was changing right in front of them, and they had no idea how to stop any of it. Kabul looked like a different city during and after the war. The war helped shape the city into the place it is today. During the war, many people said it looked like a very different place. The website says “Streets were damaged; lampposts were covered with bullet holes. All the buildings were in a bad state,” he said, adding that the most difficult part was seeing the low morale of his fellow