Examples Of Greed In The Kite Runner

Sources exhibit examples of greed that result in impoverished conditions for all circumstances of life. Greed is evident through the actions of social groups, and at the individual level. Selfishness would not benefit the good in life if it is expected to gain and not be expected to lose. Gluttony is evident in today's social environment just as much as it was years ago, whether it be using someone for self purpose, exploitation, damaging relationships, creating wars and oppression, destroying nature, countless other evils and many live without the necessities that we take for granted.

Greed can lead to many different situations, experiencing times of hardship, consequences, but a major consequence is poverty which is not realized through

The greed was evident when the Taliban went in and took control of Afghanistan: “The only people in Kabul who get to eat lamb now are the Taliban (Khaled Hosseini).” The Taliban took all of the wealthy parts of Afghanistan and claimed it as their own. These actions put the rest of Afghanistan in shambles with beggars on most street corners, people living in refugee camps etc..; “Rubble and beggars. Everywhere I looked, that was what I saw (Hosseini).” The Taliban stripped not only Afghanistan of their wealth but the people's wealth as well, making everyone no better than the beggars on the streets of Kabul in earlier years. Some individuals describe Greed like: “lust and gluttony, a sin of desire (Wikipedia).” The Taliban were compelled through longing and used Afghanistan, the people and even the children to gain control and wealth which leads to poverty in the country on which they stand on. The Taliban's audacity stripped people and their country of wealth and left everyone and everything in nothing but destruction, rubble, and countless other evils. In the novel the Sacred Leaf, the greed of money from the Coca leaves landed most of the Bolivian people in jail. This was due to the inappropriate use of Coca leaves which were sometimes turned into a paste which then was turned into cocaine: “Diego wondered how much a bus ticket to Cochabamba would cost… and save the coca money to give to his mother to pay the fines she’d been given because of his carelessness (Ellis).” The Ricardo family was in just as much debt as Diego and his family was but Diego didn’t think about that when he planned to take the all of the funds from the coca money and run while he had a chance. The greed for the coca money ended up with all the crops being confiscated by the government due to Diego's actions against this new law. Diego put the Ricardo’s and him in poverty stripping them of everything and his only way home: