Abstract
This thesis shows racial discrimination in The Kite Runner. The Kite Runner is a novel about two young Afghanistan boys who grow up together under very different circumstances. Racism plays important roles in Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner. The author uses racism to describe the characters and the culture represented in the stories. After reading this novel I figured out how people lived with racism all around them in all forms and it only hurts more to know that such people still exist around us. As we go through it slowly and gradually we find out about the good and bad times spent by the people living the era, its hypocrisies, its prejudices and racial discrimination almost the people of their own kind. The evidence in this novel is carefully placed noticing not to hinder the originality of the theme. The novel broadens the reader's mind, forcing them to analyze their own racial orthodoxies' towards being own fellow beings. Racial discrimination is always considered to be a result of personal upbringing, but this is definitely not the case when we look into the deeper side of the novel. The study shows the background of the novel, the introduction to Khaled Hosseini and The Kite Runner, and racial discrimination in the novel.
Keywords：Khaled Hosseini；The Kite Runner；Racial Discrimination
Contents
Abstract·············································································I
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1、Introduction·····································································1
2、Introduction to Khaled Hosseini and The Kite Runner·················· 1
3、The definition of racial discrimination·····································2
4、Racial Discrimination in the novel The Kite Runner·····················4
4.1 The discrimination of Russians in Afghanistan······················4
4.2 The discrimination of Hazaras in Afghanistan·······················5
5、Racism in Society·····························································7
6、Conclusion·····································································8
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