My book that I have been reading is Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini. So far the book is interesting and has a lot of culture in it. The setting is in Afghanistan. In what I have read, the main character is still a young boy. He is having conflicts with bullies and the difference between different Islamic culture groups. His servant/best friend, Hassan, is a member of the Hazara culture group, which they typically servants while the main character, Amir, is a Pashtun. This friendship is unusual and shouldn’t be allowed, thought by most people.
But my question for my book is: “What can I talk about with my book culturally based” Well this should be easy for me since there is culture on every page of my book-no joke! Before I had no response to this question but luckily I just got an idea. Should Amir and Hassan’s friendship be accepted or completely not allowed. The way I’m leaning towards that it should be accepted. Even though I haven’t finished reading my book I could think of some examples. The main reason would be because acceptance is the right thing but then I would have to find examples for that. I don’t think I’m far enough in the book to find examples to support that but I can find examples against what I think.
First of all, the Hazara people aren’t educated like the Pashtuns. People would say that these boys shouldn’t have been friends because one is too smart for the other and will just confuse the other. My other reason is that the book states that Hazara people typically servants like I said before. Many of the people in their time, such as one of their bullies, think that it is wrong for of servant and his master to be buddies. They think that they should acquaintances or colleges but never friends and play together and teach each other. So far that is all I have but I’ll keep working on it.
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