Similarities Between Amir And Ali In The Kite Runner By Khaled Hosseini

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In the The book The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini has a few main characters Baba, Amir, Hassan, and Ali. The book mainly focuses on Amir and his life, he lives with Baba, his father, and both Hassan and Ali their servants. The ways in which Amir and Baba are similar are very negative they both have lied about something very important, and they are different in that Baba is a very strong and courageous person while Amir can be very weak and cowardly. Throughout the whole book Amir is trying to gain Baba’s love and affection, but Baba thinks Amir is too different and wants him to be more like his father. When Amir becomes an adult he realizes that his efforts of becoming his father have not completely failed when the truth of Baba lying his

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