Baba Is Not An Admirable Man

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After reading the novel The KiteRunner by Khaled Hosseini I believe the audience realizes that Baba is no longer the same admirable character as he was at the beginning of the book.At the beginning of the novel Baba was one of the most admired man in Kabul because of all his hard work such as building the orphange, being an open and honest man and assisiting citizens when they needed help. But his mask fell off later in the novel when the secrets began to unravel.Baba is very tough on Amir especially when it comes to following the Quran yet Amir still envies his father, in the novel Baba says to Amir "When you kill a man you steal his life.You steal his wife’s right to a husband, rob his children of a father.When you tell a lie,you steal someones
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