Similarities

Before I began reading the Kite Runner, I was expecting to have nothing in common with the characters. Even though they are in a very different setting and have different customs, they are like me in many ways and share characteristics with people I know. They experienced hardships and continue to do so. Also, they try to find fun things do: watch movies, go for walks, and fly kites. As many friends do, they share similarities and differences with each other. Because not everything can be good without a bad side, Amir doubts and blames himself; and in that way he identifies with almost anyone.

"'When you kill a man, you steal a life,' Baba said. 'You steal his wife's right to a husband, rob his children of a father....'" Baba explained how stealing was the biggest sin of all. His talk with Amir later encouraged him to think a lot about it.

"Because the truth of it was, I always felt like Baba hated me a little. And why not? After all, I had killed his beloved wife, his beautiful princess, hadn't I?" Amir began to think that his father's hatred came from his mother's death.