Amir's Flaws

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Amir was a little boy that lived in a nice home in Kabul. He shared a home with his father Baba, Hassan and Ali. His father Baba was a rich and respected businessman. He was a tough man that never expressed love and affection towards his son. Amir was always a reader, (just like the author, Khaled Hosseini) he was neither manly nor sporty; Baba seemed to have a problem with this, causing him to always treat Amir aloof. Amir was always trying to show him “once in for all that his son was worthy” (Hosseini 49). They have two servants, Ali and his son, Hassan. Hassan and Amir are the same age, and they have been inseparable since birth. Amir has always felt jealousy towards Hassan, since Amir wants all of Baba’s attention to himself; but Baba…show more content…
Amir starts having haunting dreams and Hassan gets skinnier and paler by the day. Later on, Amir makes the decision that either him or Hassan must leave. Amir makes the irrational move to stuff money and a watch under Hassans pillow, and accuse him with Baba of robbing it. Hassan admits to it, even though he didn’t do it. This causes Ali and Hassan to get fired; something Amir will also regret the rest of his life. After separating from Hassan, things worsen in Kabul, so Baba and Amir decide to flee the country. Baba and Amir have a hard time adjusting to a simple life in the United States. They surround themselves by the Afghani community, trying to rebuild the same life they had in another country. Amir gets well adapted in the new country. He manages to go to high school and college. Meanwhile, Baba is getting sick. Amir meets a girl called Soraya, they quickly get married because of Baba’s health, and he dies a month…show more content…
Amir, very doubtful, decides to go. When he gets there, he feels lost. That was not the country he grew up in. When he goes to visit Rahim Khan, he is put up to date with everything he has missed. Rahim tells him how the Taliban killed Hassan and his wife, and how he left a son behind, Sohrab. Moreover, he admits that Hassan is also Baba’s son. After this encounter, Amir sets on a journey to find Sohrab and to redeem him from all the bad he did to Hassan by taking care of his only son. Nonetheless, the journey was not easy. Afghanistan was a destroyed and scared country. The Taliban worsened everyday. After a couple of days, Amir finally finds Hassan in an orphanage that is completely destroyed. People from the Taliban are raising him. Assef, the same character that abused Hassan, is the one who buys kids from the orphanage. Assef abuses the kids and Sohrab was being one of them. When Amir encounters Assef, he decides it is time to find vengeance for Hassan and decides to do what he did not do 20 years ago. He has a massive fight with Assef, in which he ends up in the hospital unconscious. The only reason he did not die, was because Sohrab saved him with the slingshot, the same thing Hassan did during their
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