CLASS CONFLICT IN KHALED HOSSEINI’S NOVEL THE KITE RUNNER

This graduation paper is entitled “Class Conflict in Khaled Hosseini’s
Novel The Kite Runner” . This study is written to analyze the conflicts that
happen in Afghan society which is mainly caused by difference of social class.
The research is conducted by using library research. The writer studies on the
sociological values and Marxism theory as reflected by the social class in “The
Kite Runner” novel.
The method used in this research is descriptive qualitative method as the
data are described in the form of sentences. No particular technique that is used to
collect the data in this graduation paper. The steps of collecting the data in this
research are reading and understanding the storyline and the dialogs written in the
novel, reading supporting theories related to the novel and theories of social
conflicts that can add up the findings, analyzing the data by taking notes and
focusing only on the object being researched. The next step is organizing and
displaying the data to allow conclusions to be drawn.
The results of this research are as follows: the society in the twentieth is
fundamentally separated by two large groups namely Pashtun and Hazara. They
are inhabit Afghanistan as told in The Kite Runner. the Pashtuns act as the
dominant upper class and the Hazaras fill the society of the lower class which fits
the theory of Marxism.