WEEK 6, post b

DEar Amir,

I have many questions for you especially about how your life has changed since you moved to America. Do you think the move affected your and Baba's relationship? Have you changed since you've moved to America? In my opinion to the first question i feel that your and Baba's relationship has gotten closer. I feel that while in Aphganistan you and Baba had such a tough time with your relationship because you tried too hard to get the love you wanted and Baba did not give you a chance to achieve that. When Baba died, you realized that now he was gone you needed him the most. "Listening to them, i realized how much of who i was, what i was, had been defined by Baba and the marks he had left on people's lives. My whole life, i had been 'baba's son.' Now he was gone. Baba couldn't show me the way anymore;i'd have to find it on my own"(174). Amir realizes that he had been relying on his father his whole life and he's afraid to move on and grow up. Answering to the second question, i feel that Amir has changed since he's been in America. Still haunted by Hassan and his childhood, Amir has changed. He so far has gotten married and goes to school but still thinks about Hassen. In fact, once he thought on his wedding night, "I wonder if Hassan has married. And if so whos facehe had seen in the mirror under the viel? Whose henna painted hands had he held?"(171).
Sincerely,
Claire