Differences that Divide Essay -- Literary Analysis

Throughout most of human history, humans have had a tendency to judge tidy sum on the basis of clearly defined qualities, in an attempt to char forgeerize and classify society into more easily understood black and white groups. In Khaled Hosseinis The Kite Runner, the characters, representative of the surrounding cultures portrayed, frequently participate in acts of inclusion and exclusion on the basis of ethnicity, religion, and lifestyle as a core of dividing the population into clearly defined, mutually exclusive groups. This underlying expression of discrimination serves as a modern critical analysis against societys predominate tenets of inequality.The first form of discrimination, most signifi goatt to the character Hassan, is done on the basis of ethnicity. As Edward Hower comments in The Servant, The Kite Runners limning of Afghanistan is frighteningly tense with the friction between the nations different ethnic groups. Representative of this prevalent Afghan culture, Ass ef believes in the superiority of the Pashtun people and thus the inferiority of the Hazara people, utter Afghanistan is the land of the Pashtuns... We are the true Afghans, the pure Afghans, not this Flat-Nose Hassan here. With these statements Assef self-justifies the distinctly different and unequal actions he displays towards people of different ethnicities. Through Assefs unworried rationalization of segregation and reason for conflict, Assef serves as a criticism by the author about modern society and how attitudes such as Assefs can prove harmful to even genuinely good-natured people. To represent such victimized people, Hassan starkly contrasts any form of negativity and fulfills a sacrificial use for Amirs sake, clearly noted by Asse... ...al analysis of modern societys tendencies. The author requests that rather than operate in conflict, cultures, even those that contrast each other, should act together as a continuous entity, rather than be splintered by differences t hat divide.Works CitedBartley, Jim. Kite Catches and Flies High. Globe & Mail Toronto 28 June 2003 D3. Rpt. in present-day(a) Literary Criticism. Vol. 254. Detroit Gale, 2008. N. pag. Literature Resource Center. Web. 30 Mar. 2010.Denby, David. Hard Life. Rev. of The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini. bran-new Yorker 17 Dec. 2007 106. Literature Resource Center. Web. 30 Mar. 2010. Hower, Edward. The Servant. Rev. of The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini. New York Times Book Review 3 Aug. 2003 n. pag. Literature Resource Center. Web. 29 Mar. 2010. Hosseini, Khaled. The Kite Runner. New York Penguin Group, 2003. Print.