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Social class divides people from "summary" of The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

In Kabul, where I grew up, social class was not just a category on a census form. It was a palpable force, an invisible barrier that separated people like the walls of a prison cell. The line between the haves and the have-nots was drawn with a heavy hand, and those who found themselves on the wrong side of it were doomed to a life of hardship and deprivation. I saw it all around me - in the way the kids from the rich families looked down on those from the poor neighborhoods, in the way they strutted around with their expensive clothes and fancy toys, while the others watched from the sidelines, their faces pressed against the glass of a world they could never enter. Even as a child, I could feel the weight of that division pressing down on me, shaping my thoughts and actions in ways I did not fully understand. I knew that my father's job as a servant to a wealthy family set us apart from the rest of society, that our small house with its cracked walls and leaky roof marked us as outsiders in a world where money and privilege were the only currencies that mattered. But it was not until I met Hassan, the son of our family's cook and my close...
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    The Kite Runner

    Khaled Hosseini

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