He is also an ethnic Hazara and is great with a slingshot. His character arc takes him from being a normal little boy to the traumatized victim of sexual and physical abuse, and he goes from speaking very little to not at all. Assef represents all things wrong in Afghanistan. A racist who wishes to rid Afghanistan of Hazaras, he is incapable of remorse and enjoys inflicting violence and sexual abuse on those who are powerless. He even claims Hitler as a role model. Friend of Baba and Amir.
A former mujahedin fighter, Farid is at first gruff and unfriendly. He is missing toes and fingers from a landmine explosion and represents the difficulties that many Afghans faced in the years of warfare that ravaged the country.
Though Sanaubar is infamously immoral in her youth and abandons Hassan just after he is born, she proves herself a caring grandmother to Sohrab when she reappears later in the novel. Soraya is steady, intelligent, and always there for Amir when he needs her. She can be strong-willed like her father, General Taheri, and deplores the way women are often treated in Afghan culture.
General Taheri is proud to the point of arrogance at times, and he places great value on upholding Afghan traditions. He is in many ways the stereotypical Afghan male, both in his roles as a father and husband.
Jamila plays the part of the typical Afghan wife and mother. She obeys her husband without question and wants nothing more than to see her daughter married.
Cowardly and conformist, Kamal helps Assef rape Hassan. After he is raped himself, he becomes a symbol of the brutality that destroys Afghanistan. Previous Book Summary. Next Chapter 1. Removing book from your Reading List will also remove any bookmarked pages associated with this title.
Are you sure you want to remove bookConfirmation and any corresponding bookmarks? My Preferences My Reading List. The Kite Runner Khaled Hosseini. Actually, he's probably writing about his mother and Sanaubar. Sanaubar seems to dislike Ali, her husband, and says she's seen "old donkeys better suited to be a husband" 2. We wonder if this might be because of his ethnicity. He's a Hazara like her, but perhaps she is self-loathing. After all, she does sleep with Baba who is a Pashtun see "Themes: Race" for more.
Of course, it could be that Sanaubar is attracted to the power that Baba has and that it has little to do with ethnicity. They begin to take care of both Rahim Khan and the house.
Their child is stillborn. Years pass. In , Farzana is pregnant again. One day a disfigured old woman arrives. The woman is Sanaubar, Hassan's mother.
Upon hearing this news, Hassan flees the house; however, he returns the next morning, welcomes his mother, and nurses her back to health. That winter, Sanaubar delivers Hassan's son, Sohrab, named after the hero from the Shahnamah. Sanaubar becomes inseparable from her grandson until her death four years later.
By this time it is , and Kabul suffers from the infighting of three factions — Massoud, Rabbani, and the Mujahedin.
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