6/10/2023 0 Comments The kite runner khaled![]() ![]() In this context, considerable space in the novel is devoted to criticising the communist regime and to vilifying the Taliban. Consequently, he positions the audience to be critically disposed towards the communist and Taliban regimes as historical aberrations that wrought havoc on this nation. The author suggests that the true Afghanistan can be found in expressions of the Afghan national character, culture, society, religion and politics of this earlier period. Hosseini sought to counter this perception by introducing Western readers to the Afghanistan that existed before the Communist takeover of 1978, which is before the Soviet invasion of 1979, and before the Taliban regime of 1996 to 2001. Hosseini is himself an Afghan refugee who settled in the United States who became acutely aware that Afghanistan was mostly known in the West for negative reasons, such for its seemingly incessant wars, tribalism, and religious fundamentalism. ![]() Khaled Hosseini’s novel The Kite Runner (2003) is intended to educate American and other Western readers about Afghanistan and its people while entertaining them with a dramatic novel about a family of Afghan refugees who escape war and oppression and settle in the United States. ![]()
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