Read The Kite Runner and introduce the history and present situation of Afghan race and religion.

1975-200 1 Afghan historical events: April Revolution in Talacchi (1978), Amin coup (1979), Soviet invasion: (79-89) Amin government forces, resistance guerrillas, Taliban movement (Islamic student army).

1996: The Taliban captured the capital, the Islamic State perished, and the remnants fled to the northeast and merged into the Northern Alliance? 200 1: The United States captured the capital of Afghanistan and said that the regime was handed over to the Northern Alliance, but the Taliban still occupy the western region.

Afghan religion.

In Afghanistan, Islam is widely believed, and Islam is divided into Sunnis and Shiites. The differences between the two factions are mainly on the recognition of the legitimacy of Muhammad's successor. The former Pashtuns are Muslims and the latter Hazard is Muslims, so the former persecutes the latter mainly because of different beliefs.

The book says that racial discrimination in Afghanistan was very serious at that time. Amir, a rich boy, Sunni Muslim, timid; Hassan is a Hazara, a servant's child, a Shiite Muslim, brave, tenacious and humble.

Although they are brothers, their fate has a completely different ending because of various differences. In The Kite Runner, you will find that the king is dead. Then the Soviet army, American soldiers and various ethnic organizations appeared, which changed the originally stable and rich Afghanistan beyond recognition. This point is described very delicately in the book.

Extended data:

The Kite Runner is the first novel of Afghan-American writer khaled hosseini, translated by Li Jihong, published by Shanghai People's Publishing House in 2003, and became the third best seller in the United States in 2005.

This book revolves around the story of kites and two teenagers in Afghanistan, a rich teenager and a domestic servant, as well as the betrayal and redemption of human nature.

Content introduction:

This novel tells the story of Amir in the first person. Amir was born in a wealthy family in a wealthy community in Kabul in 1963. His father "Dad" is a Pashtun, the son of a judge and a successful carpet dealer. Hassan, son of Amir's servant Ali, was born in Hazara.

Amir and Hassan are good playmates. Hassan is a very loyal and upright man. He only thinks of Amir. They often play games together. Amir is an excellent "kite fighter", that is, he is good at cutting the string of others' kites with his own kite; Hassan is also an outstanding "kite runner", because the tradition in Afghanistan is that the kite that falls after the thread is cut belongs to the person who catches it.

Dad loves two children, but he thinks Amir is too timid. Hassan always stands out when two children fight with others. Amir showed his writing talent, but dad didn't pay attention to it. Dad's friend Rahim Khan became Amir's best friend. 1973, Muhammad daud Khan and others staged a coup to overthrow the monarchy and establish a republic in Afghanistan.

Assef, a Pashtun child, worshiped Nazis in the community and clashed with Amir and Hassan. Hassan maintained Amir with a slingshot. 1975, in a kite competition, Amir won the championship in order to please his father. Hassan promised to catch a second kite to prove Amir's record. But on Hassan's way home, assef and others stopped him.

Assef asked Hassan to give him the kite, but Hassan refused, so he raped Hassan. All this was seen by Amir, but Amir did not stand up because of cowardice.

In the days that followed, Amir hoped that his father would fire Ali and Hassan because he could not face Hassan, but he was sternly rejected. So Amir framed Hassan 13 on his birthday night, saying that he had stolen his birthday present. Hassan knows everything and admits to stealing. Despite their father's opposition, Ali and Hassan moved to Hazarajat Mountain, where Hazaras live in compact communities.

1979, the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan, 198 1 year, my father fled to Peshawar, Pakistan with Amir, leaving his home to Rahim Khan. Later, Amir and his son moved to fremont in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Amir went to college in America and became a writer after graduation. He also met and married Suraya, daughter of Afghan general taheri, at a flea market in San Jose. During this period, my father died of lung cancer. Amir and Suraya moved to San Francisco. They wanted a child, but they never got it.

In 200 1 year, Rahim Khan, who was terminally ill, called Amir from Pakistan and asked him to go to Pakistan because "there is a way to be a good person again". It turned out that Rahim Khan went to Hazarajat to find the Hassan couple after Amir and his son left, and they returned to Kabul to manage Amir's big house together. Hassan also has a son, Solabo.

However, after the Taliban occupied Kabu in 1996, they seized the house because of racial discrimination and shot the Hassan couple in the street. Solabo went to the orphanage. Rahim Khan wanted Amir to go back to Kabul to save Solabo, but Amir didn't want to. Rahim Khan told Amir that Hassan was actually the illegitimate child of Amir's father.

With the help of taxi driver farid, Amir returned to Kabul controlled by the Taliban. After finding the orphanage where Solabo was located, it was found that Solabo had been taken away by a Taliban leader, who would appear at the football match. Amir made an appointment with the leader at the ball game and met him at his residence later.

It turns out that this Taliban leader is assef. Assef joined the Taliban after suffering in the prison of the * * * production party regime supported by the Soviets, fought against the Soviets and became a leader. Solabo became a sexually assaulted dancer. Assef told Amir that he could take Solabo, but he had to deal with some old debts with him first.

After shielding the left and right sides, assef put on stainless steel gloves and easily defeated Amir, who had no combat experience, but was accidentally blinded by Solabo's inseparable slingshot. Amir and Solabo took the opportunity to escape.

In Islamabad, the capital of Pakistan, Amir adopted Solabo because he could not prove that he was an orphan and could not obtain an American visa. Solabo needs to stay in the orphanage for the time being.

Out of fear of the orphanage, Solabo cut his wrist and committed suicide, and was later rescued. After Amir and Solabo returned to the United States, Solabo stopped communicating with anyone because his feelings were hurt. On the weekend after September, 200 11,Solabo finally smiled at Amir who was chasing kites in a park.

References:

Baidu Encyclopedia-The Kite Runner