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Hosseini's use of symbolism and figurative language shows the reader that Afghanistan is broken but it could be saved by the next generation’s dreams and his generation’s memories of the past before the Taliban. This is shown through Amir's dream.  Amir's dream also symbolized how Afghanistan has turned a blind eye to the "rape" of Hazaras in their society. Hosseini shows the physical consequences of not stepping in, “A havoc of scrap and rubble littered the alley. Worn bicycle tires, bottles with peeled labels, ripped up magazines, yellowed newspapers, all scattered amid a pile of bricks and slabs of cement” (75). Afghanistan looks like the aftermath of a war. The emotional damage is shown as well, “there were two things amid the garbage that I couldn’t stop looking at: One was the blue kite resting against the wall, close to the cast-iron; the other was Hassan’s brown corduroy pants thrown on a heap of eroded bricks” (75).  The kite and the pants symbolize the separation of not just Amir and Hassan but Afghanistan as a whole.  Afghanistan needs to help there brothers and put their own ambitions aside, something Amir was unable to do. If Amir stepped in then this dream might have come true.  The kites symbolized the Afghan past-time of kite racing and how Afghanistan should be fighting for their right to fly kites and pursue their happiness instead of fighting each other.  This passage did not talk about the Taliban but it did show the damage they did emotional and physically.