A STUDY OF VIOLENCE IN KHALED HOSSAINI’S NOVEL “THE KITE RUNNER”

Abstract

This study has been carried out under the Frantz Fanon’s theory of violence (1961), focusing on the violent relationship of the colonizer against the colonized. Violence as presented by Fanon (1961) rules over the ordering of the colonial world and causes the destruction of social, economic and cultural chain of the natives. This study is the descriptive qualitative research employing content and textual analysis method. The data is collected by two resources; primary source of data collection is the novel The Kite Runner (2003) by Khaled Hosseini and secondary sources of data collection are some library books, websites and articles which dealt with violence and Afghan conflicts. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini was published in 2003 by Riverhead books and its story was set against a backdrop of tempestuous events in Afghanistan from the fall of monarchy through the Soviet military intervention. After ten years fight between the Soviet army and Taliban, decolonization has taken place and the native bourgeoisie captured the country and continued same violence on the native as colonizer used. Violence created war like situations in Afghanistan and caused social conflicts, psychological trauma and exploitation of native culture.