Examples Of Discrimination In The Kite Runner

Discrimination has been presented throughout cultures ever since the beginning of time, and thousands of years later it is still existent throughout the world. Discrimination is the practice of treating people poorly depending on who they are. A place where discrimination has existed to this day would be Afghanistan, and the book, The Kite Runner, does a great job showing the reader how discrimination has stayed in the Afghan culture through the years. The book is about an Afghani kid named Amir, who lives with his disapproving and rich father, Baba, who is well known in the Afghani community. With Baba’s wealth came the benefits of having a huge house along with Hazara servants. Baba treats the Hazaras respectively, but in the Afghani community,
At a point when Assef is talking to Amir he talks about when he helped with a massacre of shooting on Hazaras describing “[how he] left the bodies in the streets, and if their families tried to sneak out to drag them back into their homes, we'd shoot them too. We left them in the streets for days. We left them for the dogs. Dog meat for dogs,” (Hosseini 277). Identically the metaphor is similar to the simile where the Hazaras are being compared to garbage, but this time, they were compared as if they were dog meat and were good for nothing else. This quote shows the brutality associated with being discriminated against. Not only were they shunned in society, but they were killed in brutal ways with no regard for their lives. The metaphor of comparing the Hazaras to dog meat shows how singled out they were in the Afghani
One of Amir’s old Hazara servants wrote him a letter after he had left Afghanistan, explaining how “kindness is gone from the land and you cannot escape the killings,” and then he goes on to describe a story of how a woman was struck by a man “so hard she fell down. He [then screamed] at her and [cursed] and saying the Ministry of Vice and Virtue does not allow women to speak loudly. She had a large purple bruise on her leg” in the end (Hosseini 216). This manner shows how women are not even allowed to speak and the way the author described it you can almost hear the man shouting at the women beating her with her responding with curses. In The Kite Runner, the author uses unique imagery to show how women are shown to be inferior.

Furthermore, The Kite Runner the author uses similes, metaphors, and imagery to portray how Women and Hazaras are discriminated against in the Afghan community. These examples of figurative language show the reader that in the Afghan community people are not treated equally and some are seen as inferior. The discrimination of these groups of people is still sadly being treated the same to this day in the country