Speech On Godman

Baba would always tell Amir how lying was a sin yet Amir eventually finds out that Baba had lied to him about Hassan being his brother. Baba said, "There is only one sin. And that is theft... When you tell a lie, you steal someone's right to the truth."(pg.237) By him lying, he completely went against what he said was right. Baba had not only lied to Amir, but to Hassan and others as well. Baba had been doing something he knew was wrong, but he had still chosen to go against his own beliefs and do it anyway. The theme addressed here is simply betrayal. Baba is consistently hypocritical throughout the novel. For example, Baba is immensely ashamed of 11 year-old Amir for crying when he saw a man murdered in the street, but later in the novel when Ali and Hassan leave for good, Baba is full of tears. This reveals the bias and corrupt personality Baba possesses. Baba is not a great father and only shows his affection for Amir when great successes occur such as the kite competition victory. Baba betrays many characters in the novel, however he does most of an injustice to Amir, his son. Baba never informing him of his sibling relationship with Hassan appears as stupidity and selfishness. Baba does not wish to provide joy for his sons at the cost of revealing that he had slept with Ali’s wife and produced Hassan. Baba is really just a coward. The lying demonstrated by Baba contributes to the main idea of forgiveness. Baba does a poor job as a father for the most part of his life and on his deathbed he receives the forgiveness from Amir for all of the pain he has caused Amir throughout his

Baba helps the poor and is constantly giving to his community “Helped me build the house in Taimani…found me a job…barely knew me…like a brother to me” (Hosseini, 184). This tells one that Baba is a caring, helpful person and that Baba does not take advantage of his power.

Perhaps a student has been turning up late for school. Maybe their clothes are wrinkled and stained from yesterday’s lunch break. They sit by themselves in every class. You try to help them but they ignore you. Their marks go down and their happiness depletes.

This is paradoxical because all Baba talked about was honor and doing the right thing, when he did one of the most dishonorable things. He had sexual intercourse with another man’s wife and had a bastard child.

Baba finds redemption by giving Amir a better life and making him forget about his past, even though Baba suffers from moving to America from Afghanistan. This is then illustrated by when Baba says “Peshawar was good for me. Not good for you.” Then later continues to say “besides, I didn’t bring us here for me, did I?” (page 136).

Baba is one of the few muslims in Afghanistan that believes there is only one sin, theft. He states to Amir with a great sense of sterness, ''When you kill a man, you steal a life . . . [you] steal his wife's right to a husband, rob his children of a father. When you tell a lie, you steal someone's right to the truth. When you cheat, you steal the right to fairness” (18). Although Baba tries to teach this lesson to Amir, he himself is a thief; he stole the “right to the truth” by retaining the truth of Hassan (18). Along with Baba’s betrayal to his son, he also betrays his beloved servants, Ali and Hassan through adultery. Sanaubar, Hassan's mother was potentially driven away by guilt; leaving Hassan without a mother and Ali without a wife.

Baba shows that he is a terrible farther towards his son, Amir. This is shown when he is talking

By being Hassan’s father as well as Amir’s, Baba is reminded of what he had done every time he saw one of his sons. When Baba saw Amir he saw “the socially legitimate half, the half that represented the riches he had inherited and the sin-with-impunity privileges that came with them” (301). Bab was aware of what he had done, and the impact it left on him and the people in his life including Amir, Hassan, and Ali. He could not run from it like Amir did, and everyday he had to face the fact that he was not able to be a father to both boys and that he betrayed Ali. However, Baba did do his best to make the situation the best it could possibly be, unlike what Amir did. But Baba continued to teach his morals that he had broken to Amir. Once Amir finds out about what Baba did he describes him as “a thief of the worst kind, because the things he’d stolen had been sacred: from me the right to know I had a brother, from Hassan his identity, and from Ali his honor” (225). Baba was always going to be followed by his past, and he did try to learn from it and heal himself, but he did not think about everyone else. He was not able to completely become good again, and therefore led to his self-loathing. Baba’s past could never escape him and he did what he could to better it, but the impact of his past only became greater as time went

“Except Baba stunned me by saying, ‘I forgive you’” (Hosseini 112) Baba is a strict person. He doesn’t want anyone to do something

I attended the speech at Embrace church on April 15. The speaker’s name that gave the main sermon was James Barnett. James isn’t the main pastor at Embrace Church, but he does speak a lot at the church. The main focus of this speech was to inform us about the gospel and the word of God. He wanted to make sure that we learned about what God wants us to do, and how we can help our neighbors. I thought he did a great job delivering this goal, because I was thinking about the different ways I could go out and help people right after hearing his speech.

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