15.10.10

Reading chapter 5 today I found it interesting looking at the links between Assef and Hitler. I had noticed that Assef was blue-eyed and blond, but I hadn't really thought much further into it except the initial 'oh yeah' moment, so I found it useful to find out that when Assef mentions how he wants Afghanistan to be pure Pashtun it is ironic and also links him to Hitler, because like Hitler (who wasn't purely German) he isn't pure Pashtun because his mother is German, so it is ironic that he wants the Hazara people not to be allowed to live in Afghanistan when really if what he wanted ever happened he wouldn't be allowed to live there either.