Analysis Of Quotes From 'The Kite Runner'

“You will never again refer to him as a ‘Hazara boy’ in my presence. He has a name and it’s Sohrab”(p.361). This quote is a huge turning point in the story because it ends the novel and it also end the theme of race in the book. Throughout the novel Amir is faced with a lot of race and discrimination decisions in his life. “ the Pashtuns, had persecuted and oppressed the Hazaras,”(p.9) this quote appears in the first couple pages of the book to show the background of the racial divide in Afghanistan. The Pashtuns, Amir's race, are the people that brought the Hazaras down and made them there serpents and slaves. They treat them like second class people and they don't matter. Amir even has a servant that he hangs out with named Hassan and he lives in the backyard of Amir and his father Baba.

Amir is different from other Pashtuns in the way that he doesn't see race the way Baba does.

Amir may not say he is friends with Hassan but he says they do everything together and they even ride bikes like they are friends. Amir reads this quote in a history book that his mother had and Hassara people have practically been erased from history. The Hazara people were killed off and the history books try to even cover it up. “Her name as Homaira. She was a Hazara, the daughter of our neighbor’s servants… You should have seen the look on my father's face when I told him. My mother actually fainted,”(p.98-99) this quote is from Rahim Khan and he is telling Amir the story of a girl he liked. Rahim Khan told his family about her and said that she was Hazara, his family did not approve at all. His brother even went and got a rifle and was going to go kill her. This just shows how low they think of the Hazara and how they don’t want anyone being associated with them unless they are their servants. “Thanks. Have you seen Hassan? Your Hazara?,” (p.68) Amir asks about Hassan and gets the question “your

Hazara”. A boy named Omar says this as if he didn’t know Hassan. Amir has always called him Hassan and he doesn’t see Hassan as a servant. Everyone else on the other hand is so focused on race and that the Hazara people are bad that Omar has to ask if he means his servant. The Hazara people as a whole do not deserve to be treated like this after so many years. Race is a big role in this novel and that quote at the end of this book showed the true end of race and Amir showed great courage to say those words.