What are the political elements of the book the Kite Runner???

Question

Generally I trying to figure out the social class system, in what ways does amir encounter social inequality, also some good quotes from the book on the political elements.

Please help!!! I am so confused by this book and I've been on all the sites that have summary's but nothing has info on this topic.

Answer 1

Read this: It sums up the politics.

An outstanding, modern story of fate
Atonement in Kabul


Khaled Hosseini, an Afghan writer living in California, has written an outstanding novel “The Kite Runner”. The book is a modern story of fate mixing elements from Afghanistan’s political history with eternal themes such as guilt, escape and love.


The book is easily read, but never sensational, Hosseini is too intelligent a writer for that. He has personally experienced the escape from Afghanistan to the US, because of the political situation in his homeland. “The Kite Runner” is therefore indeed base on personal experience, but not private. The story about the rich man’s son, Amir’s friendship with the poor servant boy Hassan appeals to everybody, and it tells more about living as a refugee and the existence in the unstable Afghanistan than most newspaper articles and documentaries.

Names of places and descriptions of Kabul, Jalalabad, the mountains of Tora-Bora, burqas and pashtunes that filled the newspapers after the American invasion of Afghanistan in 2001, and the overthrow of the Taliban regime, get a new meaning to the reader of “The Kite Runner”.

You simply get to understand the political situation much better after having read Hosseini’s novel, which spreads over three decades with events taking place both in Afghanistan and the US.

In short, the story is that the protagonist Amir through his friendship with Hassan at some point witnesses a cruel incident, which he neglects to prevent. This sin haunts him for the rest of his life. As an adult living in the states, he is given the opportunity to atone for his sin by going back to Kabul to redress the wrong, he did as a child.

Now comes a traumatic action which brings Amir into contact with the orphanages in Kabul and the truthfully cruel Taliban regime, that has grabbed the power in Afghanistan and changed this fascinating country to Hell on earth. During this journey Amir has his own self-understanding turned upside down, the novel is therefore also a story about personal development and about the necessity to reconcile himself with the past.

“The past is never dead. It is not even past”. This was said by the great American writer William Faulkner, and that applies perfectly to “The Kite Runner”, where Amir’s past holds fateful surprises which will change his life.

“The Kite Runner” arrives in Denmark with a load of distinguished reviews to back it up. Well deserved. The book would make a great film and leads the reader with a gentle into a world, unfamiliar to many people in the west. It gives the reader the desire to know more about Afghanistan.

“The Kite Runner” is yet another example of the importance of the so called immigrant literature to our understanding of the world here and now.

Michael Bach Henriksen

First novel:
An outstanding, modern story of fate

NOVEL
Khaled Hosseini: The Kite Runner

Answer 2

I second the recommendation made by Twight: Marion Zimmer Bradleys "Mists of Avalon" is, not only a "must read," but a "must have". But, given the chance that you have already read it and have a copy, I'd like to recommend: The Universe in a Single Atom: The Convergence of Science and Spirituality by His Holiness the Dalai Lama (2005) and/or The Book of Secrets by Deepak Chopra (2004)

Answer 3

That's a tricky question..