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Khaled Hosseini�s The Kite Runner is famous for its devastating and painfully honest depiction of identity, betrayal, deception and atonement. It records the miserable impact of harsh social realities faced by the characters, especially the protagonist Amir. The author conveys a profound description of a story on the background of a splendid culture of the Afghan land, the land which was tortured by wars and poverty, family alienation betrayal, coup, foreign invasion and Taliban ruling. Hosseini provides reader a window to understand Afghan history and culture as well as the impact of trauma on individual life. Amir�s personal trauma from sin to self � salvation depicts him both as a victim and a sinner. Hosseini successfully exposes the collective trauma witnessed by the entire society brought by war and the trauma suffered by the Hazaras. This paper focuses and analyses the trauma in personal circumstances through the lives of the main characters in the novel, the trauma of fear and loss of citizen�s right under Taliban and the violation of basic human right and the immense trauma generated through war in the minds of the people