Culture and traditions show who you are and what you believe in. There are different cultures all over the world, you could be the same race but grow up with different traditions.The kite runner is set around the time that the Afghanistan's monarchy had failed , The exodus of the refugees to Pakistan, the rise of the Taliban regime. Culture plays a part in this book and teaches us more about Afghanistan and how things were ,we get first-hand knowledge about what goes on and what different traditions they have. When people get married it is a tradition to ask the future bride's father for her hand in marriage which is not a tradition in my family it is the respectful thing to do but not many people do it. Have you ever heard of kite fighting? Neither …show more content…
Hassan is Amir's father's servant and is a Hazara boy,He is also Amir friend and is an amazing kite runner. This is good to see in a book and represents culture because you don't really see two different type of boys raised differently getting along especially a servant.Food represents different cultures.
When I read the kite runner and saw that they drink tea I wouldn't have imagined that because I thought British were the only ones known for tea drinking which is quite interesting, for example, their traditional desert is a rich and flavorful fine milk custard which is topped with pistachios. It is interesting what different ethnicities eat .
Amir had to deal with the Taliban and the soviet union, I have never heard of the Taliban but I have heard of the soviet union. Assef is bad news in this book he despises Amri so much he had raped Hassan just to make Amir mad which is wrong in so many ways but amir just could never stand up for himself and I mean I don't blame him,he had a person with higher power