Amir sees Babar as a distant but good man.Baba is Amir’s father, a well respected businessman.He is not envious though Amir has much more than him.He’s always loyal, forgiving and well behaved.Unlike Amir Hassan doesn’t change at all throughout this story.Hassan is best friend and half-brother as well as a servant of Baba’s.He feels his father does not like him and he becomes jealous when his father gives attention others like Hassan.He came from a wealthy background in Afghanistan.Amir is the narrator and the protagonist.
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So there were no more free elections women for instance who were able to attend University who were able to dress how they wished became very restricted and also this state of the Afghanistan became very Islamic.
However the king and the government lost and the Soviet troops pulled out in 1979 and the country was left to a civil war and it was eventually controlled by extremist groups most notably the Taliban which led to a reversal in what was in the 1960s. The most notable of it being the Mujahideen which later run in the late 90s became Al Qaeda and this group was backed by the USA, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, while the Communist Party was backed by the Soviet Union and the monarchy of course was backed also by the Soviet Union. So there were lot of insurgent groups are basically rebel groups who backed by the US. So this is a war which internally hit Afghanistan substantially but also the Soviets which is the leadership from Russia at the time tried to intervene in order to protect the monarchy. In 1979 there was the soviet-afghan war which began. A coup in other words means an uprising people decide to march against the king and I try and overthrow him. However in 1973 there’s a coup against the king. People had free voting they could vote without any fear of government attacks and during the 1960’s when this novel begins times in Afghanistan were very peaceful and this was a very prosperous country. Many attended University there was a new constitution that was created – in order to institute a Democratic legislature. So firstly it’s important to understand that Afghanistan of the 1960’s was a flourishing time. The Kite Runner is an unusual and powerful graphic novel that has become a beloved, one-of-a-kind classic. It is about the power of reading, the price of betrayal, and the possibility of redemption and an exploration of the power of fathers over sons-their love, their sacrifices, their lies.Ī gripping story of family, love, and friendship told against the devastating backdrop of the history of Afghanistan over the last thirty years. The bestselling novel, Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner, being an unforgettable, sensational, emotional, heartbreaking, story of the unlikely friendship between a well off boy and the son of his father’s servant, is very artistically crafted novel set in a war-torn country, Afghanistan.
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