Written Assignment 

The Kite Runner 

RATIONAL

This writing, takes as a reference the book “The Kite Runner” written by Khaled Hosseini, specifically chapter seven, where the central fact of the plot occurs, which is the Hassan`s rape, servant, friend and secretly half brother of the protagonist, Amir.

The proposal has been chosen as a type of text for the development of this work, with formal language and directed to the readers of the book, because it allows me to represent the knowledge of the novel in a better way through the incorporation of the core elements.

It will be a profoundly significant change which is narrated in this chapter,  causing a radical turn that will situate both characters in very different positions from the ones originally presented by the author.

The context where the scene takes place is Kabul, capital city of Afghanistan that reflects the Afghan reality and culture of 1975, characterized by a good economic moment for the country, but with brutal social contrasts, evidence of economic inequalities and ethnics and racial conflicts between their habitants, all framed by deep Islamic traditions.

These two friends, Amir and Hassan, belonged to different ethnic groups. Amir was a Pashtun, ethnic of the elite who enjoyed social privileges, whereas Hassan was a Hazara, ethnic socially inferior whose members were principally servants. 

The racism that marked this society is the thing that provokes the central fact of the plot. 

WRITING

As it is common and typical of the culture in Afghanistan, the KITE competitions where extremely usual. They consist in trying to overthrow the comets using for this an special thread that requires an specific treatment, which Amir much as Hassan used to develop. The men who succeed in cuting the opponent`s KITE would be the winners.

Amir and Hassan, two boys with different realities, son of Baba and Ali respectively, where fans and team partners of team in these competitions. One of the days which they debuted, they managed to get the title and win the confrontation after an arduous and sacrificed period of work, in which both wanted to get the KITE of the opponent who managed to cut as a trophy and symbol of triumph and power. 

Hassan, son of the servant of Baba, a child of simple and little-noticed appearance, decides to search the longed kite, that he had fallen in an extremely narrow and closed alley of the village, typical of their architectural culture. Hassan enters into the alley in search of his goal, but is enclosed by three violent boys older than him, Assef, Wali and Kamal, all of the Pashtun ethnic. At that precise moment is seen by his companion, friend and future revealed brother, Amir, who with courage and effort goes into the town to ask for support to help his friend of the situation that was faced.

At that moment, a group of people belonging to the same ethnicity as Hassan, runs to the place to observe, and with much exaltation grab the three boys, saving Hassan of this terrible situation. The three adolescents, were severely beaten and later tied by the people, leaving them injured, feeling humiliated by the inferior ethnicity, causing a burning desire for revenge later.

After the dispute, Amir and Hassan they go home with the precious KITE, but unfortunately broken and dirty, in the same way that the connivence between Pashtuns and Hazara's in that ancestral social structure, product of the conflict.

The two friends arrive home, still agitated and scared, and they tell Baba what happened. The appreciation and the enormous affection of Baba to Hassan, that triggers the jealousy of Amir, they made to mobilize their networks of contacts with the local policy, to arrest the three young attackers. Then they were jailed, generating a conflict between ethnic groups. 

Concretized such action, the parents of the three boys they heard that the person who sent to catch their children was Baba, belonging to the same ethnic group, also generating a conflict between Pashtuns.

The three parents send hired thugs to hit four of the participants responsible of the attack to their children. However, this thugs did not measure his strength and were brutally violent toward their victims, to the point of taking their lives. Furthermore, moved by its enormous desire of revenge, send to burn the warehouse where Baba kept their most profitable products. With this context the daily life of one part of Kabul became a potential powder keg.

While the hatred grows with the mistrust, Amir and Hassan manage to repair the captured KITE, rising to the sky like hopeful that everything will return be as before.