Unfortunately all over the world, everyday people are
judged by how much money they have. The book The Kite Runner by Khaled
Hosseini shows how much the amount of money you have effects you. At the start
of the book there are four main characters Baba, Ali, Hassan, and Amir. Ali and
Hassan are sometimes thought of in negative ways and are treated differently
because they are poor. Based on how much money you have it effects your impact
on the people around you, how you are treated, and what you own.
Since Baba and Amir are wealthy they live in the mansion,
while Ali and Hassan live in a mud hut. The author writes “I went past the
rosebushes to Baba’s mansion, Hassan to the mud shack where he had been born,
where he’d live his entire life.” This illustrates that due to money
issues Hassan and Ali live in huts therefore proving that the amount of money
you have decides what you own.
Due to all the money Baba has
he is able to do nice things for people with his money. In the book Baba builds
an orphanage, “Baba paid for the construction of the two-story orphanage, just
off the main strip of Jadeh Maywand south of the Kabul River, with his own
money.” This demonstrates that money can effect the impact you have on the
people around.
Being
a poor Hazara, Hassan is often thought of in a negative way. One night Amir
reads a story he wrote to Hassan. At the end of the story Amir gets mad at
Hassan for questioning his story and thinks mean thoughts about Hassan. Amir
thinks “what does he know, that illiterate Hazara? He’ll never be anything but
a cook. How dare he critize you?” This portrays that based on how much money
you have it can guide someone to think about you in a certain way.
Money
has too much power on people’s thinking about the person you are. Being a
person that lives in New York people are judged everyday by how much money they
have. If people see a homeless person they will think if they give that person
money that homeless person will go off and buy drugs or alcohol therefore being
judged based on how much money they have. I feel that any person who tends to
always judge others based on how much money they have should be ashamed.
