Social Issues In The Kite Runner

Afghanistan has struggled so much socially, economically, and politically because of the weak and cruel government who do not care about the citizens, which causes their people to lack trust with others, inside and out.
Afghanistan has struggled so much socially because they feel like they can’t trust anyone, no matter if they live in Afghanistan or not. In the book, “Breadwinner”, a character said this on page 23, “The Taliban encourage neighbor to spy on neighbor. It is safer to keep to ourselves.” It was a citizen of Afghanistan who said this, and if the people know that any of their neighbors could be spying on them, and just waiting for them to do something wrong so that they can tell the Taliban, the why would they trust them. And so
Or rather their lack of it. With the Taliban in charge, girls can’t even go to school, and most young boys have to work in order to make money and buy food for their family. Not that the Taliban care, most of them can’t read or write anyway. In the “I was one of the Taliban’s torturers: I crucified people” article, the man said, “There are no educated people in this administration - they are all totally backward and illiterate.” All the Taliban supposedly care about is their religion, but as the man in that same article wisely pointed out, “Nowhere does it say men must have beards or women cannot be educated; in fact, the Qur’an says people must seek education.” And people with a good education like that man in “The Breadwinner”, who got his education in Europe, may be in danger of being arrested because they don’t trust you, just like the man did on page 30 and 31. Another thing that contributes to them being so poor is their jobs. According to the clue sheet that we used earlier in the unit, overgrazing in Afghanistan makes it hard to farm most things, yet 80% of Afghans are farmers or herders, and everyone else is most likely to just have a low paying job in the city. Clearly there is not a very good system going on there, and it’s just getting worse now that the Taliban is there. One other thing that is causing them to be poor is their resources. They are landlocked, so it is hard for them to have any goods that have to do with water, and so they will have to trade for them, but they can’t really go out by boat, which makes it even more difficult. The only resource that really helps them is them being a major opium producer, because it will earn them money. But even that has found a way to fail them, as it has lead to kids as young as 11 getting addicted to heroin because they are so depressed from living there (found in the “Afghanistan’s Child Drug Addicts”