Students, we will flesh out this prompt further in class, and I'll note any important changes here. However, this covers the territory I expect you to cover.
In Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner, we read that in the mid-1990s, when the Taliban first took power in Afghanistan, their arrival was welcomed by many people. Further investigation showed that within a couple of years, signs of that welcome were difficult to find. Investigate the conditions that once made the people of Afghanistan hopeful that the Taliban regime would bring about a positive change. Also investigate the changes that turned some of those same people against their so-called liberators in the Taliban.
Write a six to eight page paper describing the welcome that came and disappeared, and the reasons behind it. You must use MLA formatting and citation guidelines, and at least five sources. Of those five, three must be from a newspaper or magazine article, one of which must be published by and English-language publisher based outside the United States; one must use video footage; one must be from a published book.
