The Value of a Toy

In the novel The Kite Runner by Hosseini Khald and the movie, Babies we learn a lot about culture and how children grow up in different areas of the world. The most value the book and movie hold to me is how a child has the capability to be happy and full of laughter in any culture the baby is raised in. Whether they have male and female parents, two female parents, one female parent, two male parents or one male parent a baby can still grow up as happy as any other baby. A baby can be raised in the African culture and have what is precieved to be very little to others and be even happier and better raised then a baby in a place like Tokyo or America with toys surrounding the child. 

The book and movie also show me that toys have only the value you make of them. A child growing up in a different culture will see toys as very different things. I think that idea right there is beautiful. A child can have a great toy and be semi-pleased and then on the other side of the world a child can have no toy and be over-joyed. Those who have more often sympathize those who have less, but those who have less do not always want or need more. Those in different cultures believe they have very much, more then enough and yet different cultures and country's will still see them as less fortunate. 

Everyone has different values and ideas of what makes somebody happy. The novel and movie displays that less is sometimes more and just because one is raised with less, does not mean they are not as happy or does not mean they grew up worse then the other.

In the book, as example, Amir grows up with what is seen as more, but Amir overall is not as happy, pure, honourable or nearly as good of a person as Hassan is. Yet Hassan, group up with substantially less and sees what he has as more then enough. This portrays that idea of what people value being different and and having more does not always mean better.