The Kite Runner Impact On Society

How has society impacted members of society? Society has been a major part of our civilisation from as long as we can remember. It has been placed to keep us humans in check to ensure we remain civil and live in harmony with other members, yet the norms of society have been constantly changed over the centuries in order to keep up with the changing generations. Literature has always observed our way of living and our interactions with other members of society, from this it's been noted that it’s been one of our basic instincts to be wanted and to fit in with the mob. As a result, we all tend to follow these rules, this is known as mob mentality where the term describes how people are influenced by their peers to adopt certain behaviours/ follow
Into the Wild, Lord of Flies, The Fat Boy and The Kite Runner all have different outcomes of how society has impacted the individuals or groups of people in the texts, but all four texts have pointed out that society is both a positive factor in our lives as well as negative, therefore the text reveals that individuals need to keep a balance between fitting in with society as well as keeping their opinion, as it is revealed from the texts the consequences of only following one extreme as it can either consequence in loss of identity and opinion or isolation. The texts have also revealed that because of our basic instinct to be wanted to fit in we all will continue to be susceptible to mob mentality because we all succumb to this flaw in our daily lives whether it is following a particular fashion trend or fitting in within a group these are all examples of mob mentality as we all fear being left out because as humans we take behavioural cues from those around us and as social creatures, we fear being rejected by a group. Hence, we tend to act as others around us do, following the social ‘norms’ of people we associate with, either by choice or circumstance, even if these do not genuinely reflect our actual beliefs and morals. I have also realised mob mentality is not a trivial thing, as it can become the cause of our destruction or a community/society which is proved by events in history such as the Holocaust, where millions of Jews were murdered in concentration camps because of their race by the German Nazi regime during WW2. Adolf Hitler a dictator had influenced Germans to view Jews as an inferior race who was believed to be a