The Kite Runner Social Class Analysis

Throughout history, social class has been influential on how one is treated in life. This social class statement can be seen through the novels “The Kite Runner” by Khaled Hosseini and “Rosa Parks: My Story” by Rosa Parks with Jim Haskins. The novel “The Kite Runner” is about the lives of Amir and Baba who are eventually forced to leave their homes in search of a new and safe life, due to the war that erupts in Afghanistan. In Afghanistan they are one of the richest and most powerful families there but once they leave, it changes their lives. On their journey to America they go through different ranks of social class that tends to decline the closer they get to America. Once they get to America their class then drops even lower. The terrible …show more content…
This story shows her transition into becoming one of the most important civil-rights activists the world has ever known from the very beginning as a child where segregation and racism was a normal thing that she had noticed, to then marrying her husband Raymond Parks who was an African- American rights activist, to the situation in which she refused to give up her bus seat on December 1st, 1955 to a white passenger, where she then got arrested and charged for. In both novels, “The Kite Runner” and “Rosa Parks: My Story” demonstrate the changes in social class and how these changes determine how you are treated as a person. The changes in Amir and Baba’s social classes and how they are treated due to that can be seen when they are in Afghanistan, Pakistan and America. And how African- American people were treated due to them being a lower class at the time changed because of Rosa Parks are seen through her childhood and noticing the segregation between blacks and whites, her growing up and joining her husband in being a civil-rights activist and her eventually starting the civil rights movement because of her refusing to give up her seat for a white passenger on the