Comparing Animal Farm And The Kite Runner

We are impacted by things that we read, see or hear on a daily basis, and whether we know it or not they change the way we perceive certain topics. Social commentary is often used by authors and/or artists to draw attention to ineffective elements of a society. This is present in the novels “Animal Farm” by George Orwell and “The Kite Runner” by Khlaed Hosseini. The “Animal Farm” is an allegory about a farm in which the animals revolt against the irresponsible farmer Jones after the Old Major dies and name it “Animal farm”.The animals establish seven rules to live by, of which the most important is “All animals are equal”(Animal Farm 47). As the years pass by, though, the dynamics of the farm change and the pigs establish themselves as the ruling class. Orwell ridicules the way Russia tried to rebuild itself after the Bolshevick Revolution with this book. “The Kite Runner” is a novel written by Khaled Hosseini, in which he talks about the drastic difference between life in Afghanistan before and after the Taliban take over through the point of view of an Afghan boy named Amir. The main themes in the book are love, forgiveness, betrayal, redemption, and ethnic pressure in Afghanistan,
Napoleon changes the name of the farm back to Manor Farm and in the final scene Napoleon and Pilkington (a neighboring farmer) are playing cards, although they act friendly, each is trying to cheat by playing ace of spades . The other animals watch the scene and cannot tell the pigs from the humans. In “The Kite Runner” when the Taliban take over Afghanistan they change everything, Amir points it out when he comes back from America and he sees Kabul, he says “I feel like a tourist in my own country” which means after the Taliban had taken over, the country could’ve been easily ruled by strangers because there was nothing left of the Afghanistan he grew up in (Amir