The Kite Runner And Parvana's Journey

Alienation
The two books that have been examined thoroughly are the Kite Runner by Khalid Hussein and Parvana’s journey by Deborah Ellis. “They called him flat-nosed because of Ali and Hassan’s characteristic Hazara Mongoloid features.” (Hosseini 9) Being alienated from society through poverty and, the minority class, seems to be the most common way that alienation is portrayed. “It was comforting to have a mother taking care of her again too, cooking for her and taking care of her, even though it wasn’t my own mother.”(Ellis 18)Also the longing for love and affection from one’s family and acceptance from friends is summarized very well in both novels. In both novels the main characters are alienated from their friend or family. Amir from
Parvana has been longing for a mother to take care of her, a sister to fight, with a little brother to hold, and play with. Due to the war Parvana has lost all those close and dear to her. When the war in Afganistan broke out Parvana had to flee with her father as the rest of her family was somewhere else attending a wedding. Her father died due to lack of nutrition and medical attention. They had been in the desert for weeks, months even because they had no track of the time. After her father’s death, Parvana’s main goal was to find the rest of her family, without knowing if they had survived the war or they were dead. On her journey, she met a girl in the same situation. She had been staying at a cabin for god knows how long waiting for her family to come back; waiting for her mother. In the rough conditions of Afganistan the separation and, loss of family is very common. That is the exact thing that is happening to Parvana and her friends. They are longing for love and affection from an elder figure, which seems to be the hardest to find at this
He’s my servant.”(Hosseini 44) These are the thoughts of Amir toward Hassan, who believes that Amir is his only and true friend. Hassan was alienated from his childhood friend, Amir. Hassan was Amir’s servant’s son and best friend, they had a unique bond, they have fed from the same breast, grew up together, they were best friend, and half-brothers, but both of them had no idea about this relationship until almost the end of the novel, where only Amir finds out. But there was still a big difference between them and that was that Amir was a Pashtun and Hassan was a Hazara. Hazara is a lower class cast they are known as “mice eating, flat-nosed, load carrying donkeys.” (Hosseini 10) Hassan was very loyal toward Amir, so was Amir but in some places Amir only thought of Hassan as only his servant’s son. When Amir’s friend were around he acted like he did not like Hassan, despite the fact that they did everything together, from watching movies to playing hide and seek together. There was always the element of jealousy that Amir had toward Hassan. Amir had everything he wanted but the thing he longed for was Baba’s affection which Hassan got and that made Amir very jealous. “I wished I too had some kind of scar that would beget Baba’s sympathy. It wasn’t fair. Hassan hadn’t done anything to earn Baba’s affection;” (Hosseini 50). Hassan always came in Amir’s time of need, but when Hassan was in danger Amir just stood there and watched. When Asif and his