Baba in ch.3

I find it very interesting looking at how characters personalities are portrayed without the writer having to actually say 'he was kind.' or 'Baba was judgemental.' Instead it is done subtly, and can be picked apart and worked out by looking at what he says, and how Amir sees and describes him from his point of view.

I love the descriptions of Baba, how he is a 'towering Pashtun specimen' and how his hands could 'uproot a willow tree'. These words build up a clear image of Baba in my head and by describing him in quite a lot of detail within the first few chapters, allows the reader to make their own picture of Baba in their heads for the rest of the story.