Prejudice as Seen in The Kite Runner

In the novel The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini designedly utilizes setting to play a pivotal position in the portrayal of an important nidus when narrating a post 9/11 Afghani and American novel; disfavor. The authors deliberate incorporation of Afghan and American settings over a 3 decade period frame successfully illustrates the differences and similarities among Eastern culture and western sandwich culture, as well as highlighting the prejudice each culture cultivates. The emphasis hardened upon the discrimination of Hazaras by the Pashtuns non only in names the readers of the oppressor/oppressed socio-economic traffic in Afghanistan but overly addresses a parallelism of prejudice towards Afghanis from Americans. Hosseini breaks down post 9/11 stereotypes by screening that a persons socio-economic class or ethnic group does non determine their ability to form friendships, feel guilt and search redemption. Khaled Hosseini rehumanizes a culture which has been demonized by the generalizations of numerous individual Americans and many Hollywood films. He does this by developing universal themes which constitute that Afghans and Americans have more in common than they may think.\nKhaled Hosseini deliberately utilizes the Afghan setting to bring out the internal and external cope Amirs childhood friendship with Hassan resulted in because of the hassle involved in maintaining an racial relationship in 1960-1980 capital of Afghanistan Afghanistan. Hassan and I fed from the said(prenominal) breast, we took our first steps on the same lawn in the same yard. And under the same roof, we round our first terminology. Mine was Baba. His was Amir. This is reveal as both sons first enounces represent the people they looked up to most. Hassans first word symbolizes his subjective inferiority to Amir. This show from the novel confronts the inherent role of superiority that Amir was adequate to(p) to enjoy as a Pashtun. The author uses this incident to promise the dominant/submissive natu...