Assef mentions to Amir that like his Idol Hitler, he feels entitled to killing those he sees unworthy of living in his land. He even uses the term, "ethnic cleansing," (Hosseini, 57). This is the environment of discrimination Amir is exposed to from an early age.
In, "Fahrenheit 451," the readers experience the discrimination against knowledge. The firemen's responsibility in this novel is not to put out fires and save lives. In face it is the complete opposite. They burn books and people that associate with books or any kind of knowledge. This to them is destroying knowledge. They believe this creates equality in society as everyone contains equal knowledge and none more than the other. They discriminated and will kill anyone that has access to books. The firemen have the mentality that it is wrong to have any kind of access to knowledge that comes from books. Beatty who is the head fireman says, "[They] must all be alike. Not everyone's born free and equal, as the constitution says, but everyone must me made equal," (Bradbury, 65). This is the reason why they want to create equality by burning anyone and anything associated with knowledge. Montag, the protagonist is a fireman himself and this type of discrimination is engraved in him since the beginning. Discrimination is a huge issue in both the novels and the protagonists are influenced and are a part of the discriminating in both the beginnings of the stories.
Amir and Montag both have important family and figures in their lives that have very different influences on them causing them to be puzzled. In The Kite Runner, The protagonist Amir is taught a different way of looking at Hazaras in school and in the outside world, than he is taught at home. Throughout the story Amir's teachers, the Taliban soilders and the Sunni society (Amir's religion) discriminate against Hazaras. "He said the word Shi'a (another way to say Hazara), like it was some kind of disease," (Hosseini, 5).
