Comparison Of The Holocaust In The Kite Runner

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini depicts the story of Amir, a Pashtun boy raised in an environment in which worth is determined by birth. Hosseini uses the social hierarchy in Afghanistan to compare to the ideal of the Nazis during the Holocaust. Assef in The Kite Runner depicts the ideal by alluding to the Holocaust and Hitler. The allusion to the Holocaust allows Asseff to be the connection between Afghanistan and the Holocaust as a result of superiority ideal’s depicted by Elie Wiesel in Night. The comparison depicts how due to superiority ideal’s individual 's morals can be altered in which they are willing to turn on their friends; Pashtuns and Hazaras; Aryans vs Jews. In The Kite Runner, Amir an educated Pashtun boy demonstrates the

Assef being a proud Pashtun has a strong dislike for all minorities in Afghanistan. He tells Amir “we are the true Afghans, the pure Afghans”(Hoseini 40). The word pure represents that all others are fake. Assef believes in the ideal of a master race superior to all others, going as far to support Hitler in all he did. According to Assef “if they had let Hitler finish what he had started, the world would be a better place now”(Hoseini 40). Assef resembles Hitler in many ways beyond their shared ideals. Assef has a way with words able to to control and deceit those around him. Even with his parent “he was the parent, and they his children”(Hoseini 95). As the story progresses the idea of superiority is lost to Amir but not to Assef whose actions have grown rampant in Afghanistan. Assef is now a Hitler in his own right, commanding mass murders at will. Assef showing no remorse for [leaving hazaras] for the dogs, [describing it as], dog meat for dogs”, this depicts modern Afghanistan filled with individuals accepting the superiority complex and letting atrocities happen just as they did in the Holocaust. Assef describes Afghanistan “like a beautiful mansion littered with garbage, [which] someone has to take out”(Hoseini 284). Assef taking on the role of Hitler, who desired to create a master race by genocide, by “taking out the