THE DAILY NEWS 27th August 2001 Edition ALL ABOUT THE BIG WORLD WE LIVE IN FOR YOU A THOUSAND TIMES OVER Hazara Boy Saved from the war On the 27th of August 2001 at around 11:00 am a man named Amir and a little boy that he rescued from the war ridden lands of Afghanistan named Sohrab arrived at the San Francisco airport terminal welcomed by their family. Amir a sensitive and intelligent young writer and son of the deceased Baba a well known Kabul businessman risked his own life
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character Amir Hassan Baba Ali Assef 3. a. What does it mean to be Hazara‚ Shi’a Muslim‚ Afghanistan’s minority group? Who‚ thus far‚ is Hazara? b. What does it mean to be Pashtun‚ Sunni Muslim‚ Afghanistan’s majority group? Who in the story‚ thus far‚ is Pashtun? 4. Who is Sanaubar? How is she contrasted to Amir’s mother? 5. Describe Baba’s
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One of the more prominent relationships one may observe in The Kite Runner is between the Hazara boy‚ Hassan‚ and Amir. This relationship is one the most important in the novel as it acts as a large foundation which is required for the rest of the novel. “…we were kids who had learned to crawl together‚ and no history‚ ethnicity‚ society‚ or religion was going to change that either.” (27‚ Hosseini). Amir and Hassan were very close from a very young age‚ they had grown a very strong friendship with
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belongs to the respected‚ wealthy ethnic group of Pashtuns‚ while Hassan is a poor Hazara who is looked down upon by the Pashtuns. Although Amir has the opportunity to intervene in Hassan’s rape by the neighbourhood bully‚ Assef‚ he chooses not to. Amir thinks‚ “Maybe Hassan was the price I had to pay…to win Baba. Was it a fair price? The answer floated to my conscious mind before I could thwart it: He was just a Hazara‚ wasn’t he?” (Hosseini 82). The reason Amir uses to justify his selfish conscience
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Amir later on would change that. What contrasts the two boys is that Amir is a Pushtun and Hassan is a Hazara which will always separate the two. Amir has a right to an education and Hassan does not‚ he is just a servant. 3. Hazaras are a minority group of lower status in Afghanistan‚ they’re usually the servants and considered a disgrace compared to Pashtuns. Ali‚ Sanaubar and Hassan are Hazaras in the book so far. 4. A Pashtun or Sunni Muslim are a majority group and are of the upper class
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they live in. Kabul is divided between Pashtuns and Hazaras. Pashtuns are the higher class‚ whereas Hazaras are the lower class‚ which is indicated by the fact Hassan is the son of Ali; the servant of Amir’s father’s home. There are also racial slurs towards Hazaras in the novel‚ which in a way has influence on Amir’s and Hassan’s relationship. For instance; Amir was trying to bury his guilt after teasing him and he states: ‘He was just a Hazara after all wasn’t he?’ The racism implies that Hassan
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relationship between Amir and Hassan. Although there are signs of disloyalty by Amir there are also signs of brotherly love between them. Amir shows that he cares for Hassan when he says ’then he [Ali] would remind us that there was a brotherhood between people who had fed from the same breast‚ a kinship that not even time could break. Hassan and I fed from the same breasts.’ In this quote Amir implies that because he and Hassan fed from the same breast‚ they are like brothers. This shows that he does see
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the kite competition reinforces an issue that is prevalent throughout the novel- which is the treatment of Hazaras in Afghanistan during the time the novel is set and also the suggestion that Amir and Hassan can never be true friends because of their differing positions is society. Instead of having an equal relationship‚ due to the discrimination that existed in Afghanistan against the Hazaras‚ Amir and Hassan’s friendship seems to have strong aspects of a servant-master relationship. This is proven
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Class Tensions in “The Kite Runner” With receiving numerous awards on “The Kite Runner”‚ Khaled Hosseini has become an international best seller. With more than eight million copies sold world wide‚ Hosseini shares that the story was inspired by his childhood in Afghanistan. When moving to California with his family‚ Hosseini recalls the passages in the book of Amir and Baba as immigrants in the United States to be the most resembling of his life. Through the period of adjustment from living in
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between his people. There is separation between the Pashtuns and the Hazaras‚ between Americans and Afghans‚ between men and women‚ and between the Talibs and the people of Afghanistan. “’Afghanistan is the land of Pashtuns. It always has been‚ always will be. We are the true Afghans‚ the pure Afghans‚ not this Flat-Nose here. His people pollute our homeland‚ our wantan. They dirty our blood…. Afghanistan for Pashtuns‚ I say. That’s my vision.’” This quote reflects the hatred some people had for
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