'Assef jan'

I enjoyed reading this chapter and looking at the character of Assef very much. I hadn't noticed the link Hosseini makes between Assef and Hitler when I first read the book, but when you analyse this chapter, particularly pages 33 and 35, it is clear there is a similarity between the two. They are both an 'embodiment of evil'. Hosseini's audience for this book are Western people and therefore they are likely to have preconceptions of Hitler and be prejudiced against him. Making Assef seem akin to Hitler in both his views and the fact that he a hypocrite, this is because he is of dual-heritage yet thinks 'Afghanistan is the land of Pashtuns..we are the true aghans, the pure afghans', when actually he is only half afghan and half german, again the german heritage linking him to hitler.These strong, and obvious links to a unanimously prejudice's the audience against him.