Cultural aspects learned through The Kite Runner

While reading and studying the novel “The Kite Runner”, I have learned a lot about culture in Afghanistan. Within The Kite Runner we studied and researched Pashtuns and Hazaras.  The main character Amir is a pashtun and his servants son Hassan is a Hazara. Within social ranking the  Pashtuns are higher ranked people and are mostly wealthy and well educated. Where as hazaras are considered nobodys and are only looked at as servants, Just before Hassan gets raped Assef says “It’s just a Hazara” (80 ).  Showing that if it had been a pashtun or someone else than he would have thought of it as more sinful but since its just a Hazara it did not matter.

I also learned about the women within the Afghani culture. I learned that most women in afghanistan are illiterate and have no education and cant work or essentially leave the house without a  male escort and being fully covered in a burqa. This discrimination is shown when Baba talks about how the big powerful countries in the world were men and the weak and not so powerful countries were women.