Kite Runner Social Gap Analysis

“Whatever their faith and calling the Hazaras are as honorable citizens of Pakistan as anyone else and the protection of their lives and liberty is a duty for which you will be held accountable,” as one of the citizens said (Akbar). They have strived to receive equal individual rights and freedom for years, yet it remains as the worst cases throughout the Mid-eastern countries. This situation has appear throughout the Kite Runner, highlighting one of the essential themes—social gap and religious differences. The social gap between Amir and Hassan reveals intense religious and racial disputes that have existed years ago, thus promoting the distinction of Shi’a and Sunni Muslim groups.

The history of the conflicts between the major Islamic groups,

They spent their lives as low-class servants and laborers or to stay at home, while the Pastuns looked at their selves as the center of political power. They were treated in worse conditions or even forced to death because of their background and facial identity. Hosseini describes how most people in Kabul view the Hazaras lower than the others. In the Kite Runner, Amir hears Ali and Hassan as “flat-nosed” … “mice-eating” … “load-carrying donkeys” because of their Mongolian features (Hosseini 9). Ali and Hassan both belong to the Mongolian descent with distinct features that others can be easily noticed. They were innocent beings with warm, kind heart that most outsiders see them as threat. "...the Pashtuns had "quelled them with unspeakable violence." The book said my people had killed the Hazaras, driven them from their lands, burned their homes, and sold their women” (Hosseini 9). He tries to imply that their actions toward the Hazaras were fairly cruel. Hence, they had already approach to the concept of ethnic cleansing. Over the recent years, the Hazara’s population numbers had dropped significantly with only few millions