Religion In The Kite Runner

In America, we have this cool thing called freedom of religion. This is where people can be any religion or denomination they please without the fear of being beaten or treated differently. In Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner, he portrays the false importance of Social status and morality and its effect it has on people of different social status. Amir, who is constantly struggling to earn his father's love, finally succeeds by winning a kite-flying competition. But on that day, he witnesses a horrible act involving his best friend and does nothing to stop it. Neither did anyone else, because Hassan was a Hazara, they weren’t as valued as a Pashtun.
In the midst of this, Afghan­istan is invaded by Russia, ­separating Amir and Hassan completely.
Amir was a Pushtun, and Hassan was a Hazara. In Babas house, there was not much of a religion barrier between Ali and Hassan, and Baba and Amir. Technically Hassan and his father were Babas servants, but Baba didn’t treat them as servants. Baba had grown up with Ali and had taught Amir to not only see people by the religion they were, but by the kind of loyalty they show. But the rest of Afghanistan just didn’t understand that. Religion has always just been a big part of their culture. In chapter four, Amir is talking about the types of things him and Hassan used to do together, like run kites, teaching each other to ride a bicycle with no hands, things little boys do. Then he states, “But never mind any of those things. Because history isn’t easy to overcome. Neither is religion. In the end, I was Pushtun and he was a Hazara. I was Sunni and he as Shi’a, and nothing was ever going to change that. Nothing (Hosseini 25). In our culture, religion is not as much of a factor as it is in Afghanistan. You could tell by the relationship Hassan and Amir showed, that they didn’t really understand why it was a big deal either. They didn’t want it to be important, but they knew for some reason, it had to