Psychological Effects Of The Kite Runner

“Alas the Afghanistan of our youth is long dead. Kindness is gone from the land and you cannot escape the killings.” Hassan’s words from Khaled Hosseini’s novel The Kite Runner aptly sum up the sorrows of the civilians caught up in the middle of war, watching their countries and their lives dissolve before their very eyes. Political warfare does not mean only violence but consequently changes the psychology of a society.

The leadership in countries like Afghanistan and Iraq constantly changes hands, and this constant state of change creates emotional, physical and mental turmoil in society of a degree one cannot fathom without having been in a similar situation. The Taliban defeated the Northern Alliance and took over Kabul in 1998, people

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Orkideh Behrouzan says in his article The Psychological Impact of the Iraq War, “War conditions create memories and wounds that outlive the wars themselves. Their images and sounds persist in air, economics, politics and private lives through multiple generations.”

The mental and emotional impact does, after all, outlive the physical impact. Psychologists often try to classify survivors under categories of people having suffered trauma, but the individual experiences of war cannot be fitted under clinical terms. These experiences have a collective historical background, even in case of civilians. When the First World War was declared, the government of Britain passed the Defence of the Realm Act (DORA) which gave it the right

Curfews and censorship laws were strengthened. The government could take over any industry and arrest anybody for causing public alarm, even if the didn 't have any proof of the same.

Women have always played an important role in each and every war, be it as targets, collateral damage, or crucial personas. Life under Isis (Islamic State of Iraq) has been a living hell for women. Patrick Cockburn in his article Life Under Isis says, “The Islamic State wants to force all humanity to believe in its vision of a religious and social utopia existing in the first days of Islam.”

This statement can be proven by the fact that Iraqi women are forced to marry Isis fighters against their will, a practice followed in the 7th Century by the Caliphate. They are whipped, along with their husbands, if they appear in the streets without their heads covered. Women have always been subjugated in political scenarios.

On the other hand, war has sometimes changed societal perception about women for the better.

Prior to the First World War, the women of England were oppressed and did not have the right to vote. When men were recruited into the army to fight in the war, women stepped into their vacant

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