Discrimination, bigotry and class structure are all very present in Afghan society. This is well delineated in Khaled Hosseini's novel The Kite Runner, in which each character experiences or witnesses one of the above-mentioned characteristics of society. The novel's incessant use of discrimination is significant for many reasons, the most important of which is that these elements of society are still present today. The Kite Runner helps students understand how unfair life can be and how lucky we are to be so far from such circumstances. The three overarching points in the story about discrimination, bigotry, and class structure are how women are viewed and treated; how Hazaras are seen as inferior; and the differences between Amir's old neighborhood and the rest of Afghanistan. Women are not treated equally to men in Afghanistan; they are expected to sit quietly and do what the men in their lives want them to do. Many of the women in The Kite Runner are victims of such injustice and must face the harsh consequences of their mistakes. Soraya, Amir's wife, experiences these consequences endlessly due to a simple mistake she made as a teenager. As a girl, Soraya ran away with an Afghan man who used drugs. All the Afghans in Virginia had talked about it, and Soraya had been forced to live with a bad reputation ever since. Years later, at Soraya's cousin's wedding, he overheard a conversation between two middle-aged women. "That boy was right not to marry his cousin." one of the women remarked, and Soraya later burst into tears in the car. “It's so damn unfair. Their sons go to nightclubs looking for meat and get their girlfriends pregnant, they have children out of wedlock and no one says a...... middle of paper...... Afghanistan that maybe you never know what it's like in the "real" world. Most of the Afghan population has experienced many difficulties in their daily lives. In the novel The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini brilliantly describes what life in Afghanistan is really like from the perspective of a privileged boy, and his horror when he realizes that Afghanistan is not, despite how he grew up, a place very cute. Discrimination and bigotry are ever-present in Afghan society and no one is exempt from the brutality of the Taliban. If any of the restrictions are violated, the Taliban will publicly hang, stone or otherwise execute the offender. Discrimination, bigotry and class structure have always been present, and will likely always be present, in the lives of Afghans. Afghanistan has become a place of death and destruction, and the people living there constantly fear for their lives.