"It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetimeâ¦"(142) In the novel, Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini, Hosseini paints a vivid description of what the people and the Afghan nation went through during the 1970's. Through his style and literary devices, one is transported to the streets of Kabul during the Taliban takeover and to the park bench in San Francisco as Amir ponders on the past. Hosseini allows for a connection to be formed with young Amir and to mourn for the lost of Baba with simply his words on the page. Khaled Hosseini showed the importance of time, and that in a just a moment everything can change and that in the span of a lifetime things can also be the same. Throughout the novel there were three main themes illustrated in the book: discrimination and class structure in the Afghan society, friendship, and resilience of the human spirit.
Kite Runner author Khaled Hosseini with Bahram and...
Khaled Hosseini at the White House in 2007, with B...
George and Laura Bush with Khaled Hosseini in 2007...These three themes shaped the novel and gave it depth as well as character.
One of the major themes seen all throughout The Kite Runner is discrimination. Where it is illustrated most is in the inequality between the Hazaras and Pashtuns, two classes of people that fought due to the difference in religion and ethnic backgrounds. One of the characters in the novel that displays their hatred for the lesser class throughout the book is Assef, the Pashtun neighborhood bully and antagonist in the novel. In the scene Assef expresses his hatred toward Hazaras "Afghanistan is the land of the Pashtuns. It always has been, always will be. We are the true Afghans, the pure Afghans, not this Flat-Nose here. His people pollute our homeland, our watan. They dirty our blood⦠Afghanistan for...