Inhumanity In The Kite Runner Analysis

Throughout history, humans have committed millions of unforgivable crime due to jealousy, selfishness, and beliefs. Although there’s a saying by George Santayana that said, ‘Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it”, several events in history proved that even with the power of knowledge, man’s inhumanity to man cannot be stopped. Khaled Hosseini’s representation of inhumanity through the book The Kite Runner stands out like a stain on a white shirt; it showed how far humans were willing to go for their own selfish desires. In the book ‘The Kite Runner”, inhumanity comes in different levels. From bullying to murder and rape, the author Khaled Hosseini clearly conveyed man’s inhumanity mostly through the common discriminations in Afghanistan and the actions of Assef and Amir.

The setting of The Kite Runner was already set to describe the inhumane nature of people and the author did not fail to do so. The Kite Runner took place in Afghanistan, a country that had a very complicated and violent history. Afghanistan is also a country that contained various ethnic groups such as the Uzbeks, Tajiks, Pashtuns, Hazaras, etc. Two of many mentioned in the book were the Pashtuns and the Hazaras. The Pashtuns were the “superiors” whereas the Hazaras were the “inferiors”. The people called the Hazaras, Mogul descendants that looked a little like Chinese people were treated differently from the Pashtuns. More specifically, the Hazaras were servants of the households in