Monday, June 7, 2010

Womens Roles In The Kite Runner

I think Sanaubar “Hassan mother” was mistaked in the book for a bad women which is understand able because she is just another women in Afghanistan that is not treated with any respect just like every other women in Afghanistan. But also she did mess up by sleeping with another man who was Baba, while she had a husband and then ran away with a dancing troupe. But before she had ran away she had a child named “Hassan” that was not Ali son it was Baba’s. Sanaubar also seems to dislike Ali, her husband, and says she's seen "old donkeys better suited to be a husband then Ali". By her saying that it starts more conflict between Ali and her and that is probably one of the reasons why she ran away. Other reasons why she had runaway is because women were not allowed to do very much in Afghanistan because of the Taliban. The Taliban had taken over Kabul where Baba’s house was and where Ali and Sanaubar had lived because they would help around Baba’s house because they were servants for Baba. But something happens almost at the end of the book when Sanaubar returns to Baba's home to live with Hassan, his wife, and his kid “sohrab”. Also Rahim khan who was now the owner and keeper of the house needed Help around because after Baba and Amir had left Afghanistan to America because Hassan and Ali had left. Rahim Khan got sick so he got hassans family to help him. Another thing that had happened in the being of the book when Amir and Hassan are walking and the soldiers notice that Hassan is Sanaubar son and they start to harass him by saying the stuff that they have sexually done to her.

1 comment:

  1. Hey Devon,

    Have you answered the question of Sanaubar's role? Why is she an important character?

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