So far, throughout Amir’s life, his dad Baba has not been very kind to him but has lightened up a little bit now. I believe Baba is being more nice to Amir because he is growing old and has cancer now, and needs someone to take care of him, although he won’t admit it. Baba knows that he is almost at the end of life and probably regrets how he treated Amir in his childhood, so Baba is doing everything he can to make up for it. He may seem nicer now, but I think he is still a stubborn jerk.
For example, when Amir had to almost force him to go to the hospital because he thinks nobody can help him. Then Baba finds out that his pulmonologist is Russian and says,
“I don’t care where he was born, he’s Roussi...I swear on your mother’s face I’ll break his arm if he tries to touch me.”
Now I know Baba has a very big grudge against the Russians, but this doctor didn’t do anything to him, he had no right to be as racist as he did.
Even after Baba gets a new doctor, and he offers Baba chemotherapy for his cancer, he rejects the offer in an arrogant way. Then Amir tries to persuade him to get it, once again being mean, old, and stubborn, Baba replies,
“Don’t you challenge me in public, Amir. Ever. Who do you think you are?”
All Amir was trying to do is help him out, not intentionally offend him in any way.
Now some may argue, that Baba isn’t a jerk because he got Amir a new car for his graduation and he built an orphanage. But when you think about it, money can’t buy love. Baba also spent all day every day building an orphanage for bad kids and one of them was a guy who raped his son, Hassan. On top of that, he has never shown Amir any mercy when he is hurt and he has only seemed proud of him twice in his whole lifetime. When he won the kite competition and graduated from high school, and Amir is about 23 already.
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