Baba's Death

     When Baba, Kaka jan, died, it didn't really come as a shock to me. Since Amir's father had cancer, him dying wasn't all that shocking. When Baba first ended up in the hospital, he told Amir that even though Pashtun people were stubborn and proud, there was nobody he would rather have by him in a time of need. Pashtun's seemed to always help one another out, and when all those people showed up in the hospital to visit Baba, I really saw how much they all cared for one another. The night before Baba died, Soraya told him she would come back with his morphine to help with the pain. Baba told her not to because there was no pain that night. This should have been a sign that he was going to die, and he died in his sleep that night. When the funeral took place for Baba, many people came and told of what a great man he was. Amir then realized how much of his life was defined by Baba.