themselves and how they were able to to live their lives. Although they promised to bring a sense of peace back to Afghan society, they ended up continuing to destroy the country of Afghanistan like the Soviets did when they occupied it. In The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini, he shows how the Taliban changed the way life was lived and shows how what amir used to do as a child was now forbidden and what he used to call his home, was now destroyed as a result of the rise of the Taliban and the beliefs