The Kite Runner: Section 2: Embedded History

          Throughout Khaled Hosseini's novel The Kite Runner, he embeds Afghanistan's history.  He does this by having the character's lives be constantly affected by what the government is doing.  The history is most prevalent when Baba and Amir leave Kabul and immigrate to the U.S.  As the Russians take over Afghanistan Baba decides to take himself and Amir to Pakistan.  They then move to the U.S. to escape the Taliban and to search for a better life.  Hosseini writes about the peril that the Afghan people went through.  He tells this through the telling of Baba and Amir's story.  "Long before the Roussi army marched into Afghanistan, long before villages were burned and schools destroyed, long before mines were planted like seeds of death and children buried in rock-piled graves..." (Hosseini, 136).  This passage depicts what happened to the Afghani people during the time Russia was in Afghanistan and when the Taliban took over.