The Kite Runner: Abuse of Power
- Created by: ea25
- Created on: 10-04-19 16:05
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- Abuse of political/social power
- Taliban
- Assef embodies the consequences of the abuse of power for power's sake & the violence & repression of the Taliban regime.
- Assef is a sociopath who thrives in an atmosphere of chaos & subjugation.
- Took control in 1996, totalitarian regime
- Have double standards - banned TV and alcohol but privately indulge themselves, "big-screen TV" in house where Amir meets Assef.
- Assef embodies the consequences of the abuse of power for power's sake & the violence & repression of the Taliban regime.
- Soviet-backed Communist regime
- Abuse of power forces Baba & Amir to go into exile.
- Soviet invasion represented on a domestic level through the attempted **** of a young Afghan woman by a Russian soldier, as a "price" for letting the lorry Amir is travelling in pass.
- Baba: "tell him I'll take a thousand of his bullets before I let this indecency take place".
- "there is no shame in war"
- Baba trying to preserve honour of woman & Afghanistan.
- Hazaras
- Second-class citizens in the quasi-caste system of Afghanistan.
- Suffer humiliation for their appearance (Hassan & Ali)
- "flat-nosed" "cleft lip"
- "They chased him on the street and mocked him when he hobbled by."
- When General Taheri demands an explanation for Amir & Soraya's adoption of "a Hazara boy", he echoes the discrimination against this entire ethnic minority.
- Baba condones a systematic discrimination against Hazaras by refusing to acknowledge his son with a Hazara woman, Sanaubar.
- America
- USA didn't fully intervene in Taliban taking control of Afghanistan until after 9/11 - terrorist threat.
- Has its own ideology - Bush wanted to "win the war against Terrorism".
- Presented ambiguously - saviour in destroying the Taliban but also a destroyer.
- Western powers didn't intervene straight away
- USA didn't fully intervene in Taliban taking control of Afghanistan until after 9/11 - terrorist threat.
- Taliban
- Soviet invasion represented on a domestic level through the attempted **** of a young Afghan woman by a Russian soldier, as a "price" for letting the lorry Amir is travelling in pass.
- Baba: "tell him I'll take a thousand of his bullets before I let this indecency take place".
- "there is no shame in war"
- Baba trying to preserve honour of woman & Afghanistan.
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