In The Kite Runner, are Baba and Amir more similar or more different? How? Why?

Amir and his father Baba are alike in that they show a certain egocentricity and insensitivity to others. They both blunder around in life, acting out of impulse, which in turns hurts those around them.

They are even more alike than what one sees at first glance:

• They both are bound to regret for choices they have made in the past.


• They first set "conditions" before being really able to accept each other as they are.


• Under duress and financial precarity, they learn to be better people than they were before.


• Each tries in his own way to keep his secret but at the same time attempts to make up for past wrongs.

So I guess in this story, the old adage holds: 'Like father, like son.'