Kabul

parasitic; Amir is constantly belittling Hassan in order to raise his appearance in the eyes of Baba. Amir feels as if he has the agency to commit these acts because of his economic superiority. The mistrust between the different tribal groups in Kabul is caused by stigmas rather than actual events causing poor feelings. This motif was not only present in Afghanistan but it was also present in…

Kite Runner, written by Khaled Hosseini, is a fictional book set in Afghanistan. Although much of the book is fictional, the culture and events occurring in the book are not. Kite Runner shows you the humanity of Afghanistan and the people who live in it. Hosseini begins his story with a peaceful Afghanistan, continues to an Afghanistan that is beginning to be struck by war, and ends with a country that is broken and barely living. In this paper, I’ll show you the reality of Afghanistan while…

and has not worked outside of the home. She and Abdi had been married for over twenty years. Abdi was “forty-six or maybe forty-eight” when he died. She has not remarried and has no plans to remarry. Lialma stills lives in Abdi’s apartment in Kabul, which is where she has lived for the past fifteen years. She currently lives there with Abdi and her children. They have four sons, Tamin, Aziz,…

would help her to get money which gave them in her eyes “all the money in the world”. When she heard her family were going to leave for Nooria's wedding she begged to stay because she kept thinking that her father might come back. “We can't leave Kabul! Parvana exclaimed. "What about Father? What will happen if he gets out of prison and we're not here? He won't know where to look for us!”(Ellis). After waiting for an extensive amount of time her father finally returned, after that they nursed…

The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini, follows Amir, a boy from Kabul, Afghanistan, through his emotion-filled life. Throughout the novel, we witness Amir’s experiences with extreme guilt, unworthiness, selfishness, and selflessness. Majority of his relationships have one of these embedded into them. Including his relationships with Hassan, his family’s servant, and his dad, Baba. Hassan and his father, Ali, both serve Baba and Amir. Hassan is around Amir’s age, and because of that, they often…

Shooting Kabul is an appropriate novel for sixth-grade students because older students are aware of world issues and will understand the concepts. The book was suspenseful but also predictable. For example, Mr. Singh was associated with being a terrorist, since he “has a beard and turban” (Senzai, 92). The last chapter and epilogue was unfinished and could have been expanded. For example, Fadi’s reaction to seeing Mariam in the photo and Mariam’s experience living at the refugee camp. Overall,…

The article “Malala the Powerful” by Kristin Lewis describes how the Taliban’s shove Malalas way of life around and around,she has zero rights just because she is a girl. She is no longer able to go to school, everyday she risks her life blogging and talking about rights. She lives in Pakistan where the taliban are rapidly taking over her government and changing the rights in a horrifying way. Malala was able to surpass all of the horrifying things by attending an all girls school at risks high…

In the novel The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini, it portrays the constant suppression and marginalization of the Hazara people, who are belittled compared to the pre-dominant social class known as the Pashtuns. Hosseini is portraying the hardships that social classes face within Afghanistan society in order for the reader of the novel to develop a better understanding of the conflicting Afghan culture. These two social classes follow different belief systems which obviously contribute to…

During 1975-2001 in Kabul, Afghanistan there was a disagreement between the religions and traditions practiced which was challenged by two different political parties in one country. For years Muhammad Khan had the power role to temporarily oversee the people and their rights only for him and his family to be killed. A communist group overtook the country and allowed the ways of Russia to take over the religious traditions held within Afghanistan. A taliban was then created to fight against the…

After the removal of the Taliban in 2001, many improvements began to rise for women, although women inequality was still evident. Enrollment for girl’s education in 2002 rose thirty percent and women could now go to work with the permission of male relatives (“Life as an Afghan Woman”). “Life as an Afghan Woman” states about infant and child mortality that “Fewer children die before age five. Child mortality has been decreased by half! Though the rate is still high, improvements in access to…