Identity In The Kite Runner

An individual’s most important thing, their identity. The identity is mostly based on the individual's race, ethnicity, and religious background. Due to that, many people take it for granted and believe they are the more superior being. The Kite runner by Khaled Hosseini captures the changes of a person, how the person’s decisions can be affected by their background. It describes how the roles of race, ethnicity and social class can affect the novel. The concepts affect the characters’ decisions and motivations based on how Pashtuns have been influenced by their society to overpower the Hazaras and become superior, the way the Hazaras confessed and accepted the fact of being oppressed in society, and how the Taliban’s encouragement of religious …show more content…
For example: “In Afghanistan, people were mobilized around the ethnic lines to seek power and security. Hazara minorities were subjected to violent suppression and use of brutal force against them by the Pashtun.” (Azadany 2016). The two race’s conflict has been ongoing for years, in the novel, the Hazaras are constantly oppressed by the Pashtuns, and no matter how hard they try to fight back, they are still being defeated. Historically, the Hazara and Pashtun are often in collision, as the Hazara is seen as the weaker race, it shows that the Pashtuns seem to have always been the absolute predominant race in Afghanistan. In the novel, this is a key factor of their discrimination against the Hazaras, who are of a minority compares to the Pashtan. As the word “race” can be described as the biological traits of a certain group of individuals, such as facial features, skin colour, or even the height, one race will always believe that they are the more superior one compare to the others. In the Kite Runner, due to the Hassan's race, he is treated badly, tormented and goes through horrible experiences. People of Hazara has mongoloid features and because of that, Ali and Hassan are called “Flat-nosed” (Hosseini 9). In addition, children

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