Prejudice In The Kite Runner

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The Kite Runner Essay Prejudice is the apprehension that the human race places on others to construct a narrow minded presumption. Prejudice existences in this world is a foundation of human attributes on basing first reactions and judgement on people we either first meet or collaborate with over time. The word prejudice is a great word to describe the book “The Kite Runner” by Khaled Hosseini. The author showed that the belief of information or unbiased opinion by a person to gain feeling of power and superiority over another throughout the book. The groups in the text exhibit aspects of prejudice in the shape of social status. The Hazaras are on the bottom of the class structure. This group has to show there respects and serve the higher…show more content…
Amir frequently doesn’t succeed to live up to Babas values. The failure relies on Babas disregard of love towards his own son. Instead he would give his attention and appreciation to his servant’s son Hassan when he would be extraordinary or successful. Babas idea and understanding of being strict holds to be true of looking after number one. Coming close isn’t winning, so when Hassan outperformed Amir in many things such as kite flying, shows Babas prejudicious views on Amir. Babas close minded views cause Amir to seek the feeling of superiority. When Amir was in his childhood taking his first steps, Hassan was always there with him step by step laughing, playing and learning there first words together. The bond that they have is one that started young before either one could remember. But Amir’s lack of guidance and acquiescence from Baba, influence him to make himself feel superior by tricking Hassan and not playing games when other kids are around. One of the tricks Amir played on Hassan was making him think that the word imbecile meant intelligent. Amir knowing that Hassan is a Hazara, which meant he was uneducated and gullible to his stories. Amir proceeds and reacts to Babas actions and ultimately betrays his best friend…show more content…
Hassan’s father is Baba servant. Hassan must serve and respect Amir. Hassan stays at home and cleans the house while Amir goes to school to receive an education. While both Amir and Hassan grew up together, they were both raised differently by their father. The parenting of Hassan by his Father Ali was strong and supportive which leads to Hassan being a strong willed man. Amir’s friendship with Hassan is the most important thing, to the point he makes a huge sacrifice to conserve their friendship. Hassan gets raped in order to allow Amir to show his prize to Baba and to make Amir happy. Hassan’s strong will and morals show a duty to serve his master traditionally and to reinforce his beliefs and how he was raised by his father, Hassan refuses to betray Amir no matter the situation. Even after Amir wouldn’t play with Hassan after being raped, he still thought highly of Amir. Hassan never gave into the inferiority of his social
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