Kite Runner Cultural Analysis

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Years have gone by since being home and now home does not feel the same. In Khaled Hosseini's Kite Runner Amir hasn’t been to his old home Afghanistan since 1981 at the age of 18 now at 38 years old in 2001. He finally comes back home to find that his home has gotten worse since he has last been there. As a child, he was sheltered from much of real-world issues. Now as an adult coming back he takes a look at himself and who he was in his younger years once experiencing the much different culture of American society than Afghan society. After moving to America Amir’s perspective on ethnicity has changed from what it was in the past once he goes back to Afghanistan. He learns that life in America is different from life in Afghanistan. As a foreigner coming to a new country he learns that it's often hard to get the …show more content…
Before, Amir felt as though him being Pashtun was what made him worth more than everyone else, everyone else was inferior. Now that he has grown up and moved to America he realizes he has turned into the type of person that he had once thought so little of, now in the lense of American society. According to LA Times “The country's disastrous civil war in the early 1990s — a conflict that killed at least 100,000 people and helped set the stage for the Taliban's rise to power — reduced whole swaths of the capital to rubble, leaving scars on the landscape that reconstruction efforts have yet to erase”. This quote shows that Fremont is not Kabul. What they were accustomed to in the past they now have to forget and go along with the culture of America. They must do this to truly be distanced from their past. “I glanced at him across the table, his nails chipped and black with engine oil, his knuckles scraped, the smells of the gas station dust, sweat, and gasoline on his clothes. Baba was like the widower who remarries but can’t let go of his dead wife. He missed the sugarcane fields
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