Baba is a man manifesting a strong character and moral and ethical strength, but as the story progresses in The Kite Runner the reader soon realizes that Baba’s character is flawed, although he hides it well.
Meanwhile, Amir, suffers believing that his father is perfect and is convinced that his father is a much better person than he is. The story continues revealing that Baba has conceived a child with his faithful servant, Ali’s wife, named Sanaubar. Baba has trespassed against his own beliefs by conceiving a child with a married woman following the death of his own wife, Amir’s mother who dies during childbirth.
Furthermore, Amir feels responsible for the death of his own mother, since she dies shortly after his birth. Amir assumes that his father blames him for his mother’s death, although they never talk about it and Amir just takes this burden upon himself.
Later in the novel, Amir realizes that his father had sins of his own and realizes how irony surrounds the two of them and in Amir’s pursuit of perfection stumbles upon the fact that his father led a double life and never atoned for his sins.
As a result of Baba’s sins against Ali and Sanaubar more innocent people are hurt, including Hassan and Sohrab. In How to Read Literature Like a Professor, it alludes to the fact that “…lost children” was common as a theme and here we see examples of lost children and ultimately one man steps forward, reluctantly at first, but nonetheless prepared to sacrifice his comfort to find and save a lost child. The irony includes the fact that Amir was a lost child, although comfortable with a loving, yet distant father and a comfortable economic system at home to uphold him, but lost just the same.
Meanwhile, Amir, suffers believing that his father is perfect and is convinced that his father is a much better person than he is. The story continues revealing that Baba has conceived a child with his faithful servant, Ali’s wife, named Sanaubar. Baba has trespassed against his own beliefs by conceiving a child with a married woman following the death of his own wife, Amir’s mother who dies during childbirth.
Furthermore, Amir feels responsible for the death of his own mother, since she dies shortly after his birth. Amir assumes that his father blames him for his mother’s death, although they never talk about it and Amir just takes this burden upon himself.
Later in the novel, Amir realizes that his father had sins of his own and realizes how irony surrounds the two of them and in Amir’s pursuit of perfection stumbles upon the fact that his father led a double life and never atoned for his sins.
As a result of Baba’s sins against Ali and Sanaubar more innocent people are hurt, including Hassan and Sohrab. In How to Read Literature Like a Professor, it alludes to the fact that “…lost children” was common as a theme and here we see examples of lost children and ultimately one man steps forward, reluctantly at first, but nonetheless prepared to sacrifice his comfort to find and save a lost child. The irony includes the fact that Amir was a lost child, although comfortable with a loving, yet distant father and a comfortable economic system at home to uphold him, but lost just the same.