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"There is no act more wretched than stealing Amir," Baba said. "A man who takes what's not his to take, be it a life or a loaf of nann... I spit on such a man. And if I ever cross paths with him, God help him. Do you understand?" -Elvis

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"A boy who won't stand up for himself becomes a man who can't stand up to anything." I think this quote shows that in Afghanistan it is seen as manly to be strong emotionally.

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"I watched him swing his scraggy leg in a sweeping arc, watched his whole body tilt impossibly to the right as he planted a foot." (8)

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The orphanage that Baba built. Shows the good deeds is apart of being a good man. 

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The orphanage that Baba built. Shows the good deeds is apart of being a good man. 

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“Real men, real boys play soccer”

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“I have heard that Sanaubar’s suggestive stride and oscillating hips sent men to reveries if infidelity. But polio had left Ali with a twisted, atrophied right leg that was sallow skin over bone with little in between except a paper-thin later of muscle.”
pg 8

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'It was an apt enough nickname. My father was a force of nature, a towering Pashtun specimen with a thick beard, a wayward crop of curly brown hair as unruly as the man himself, hands that looked capable of uprooting a willow tree, and a black glare that would 'drop the devil to his knees begging for mercy,' as Rahim Khan used to say. At parties, when all six-foot-five of him thundered into the room, attention shifted to him like sunflowers turning to the sun.'

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"It was Rahim Khan who first referred to him as what eventually became Baba's famous nickname, Toophan agha or "Mr Huricane." (Page 12 chapter 3)

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'A man who takes what's not his to take, be it a life or loaf of naan. I spit on such a man.'

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"with me as the glaring exception, My father molded the world around him to his liking. The problem, of course, was that baba saw the black and white, And he got to decide what was black and what was white. You cant love a person who lives that way without fearing him too"

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Buzkashi, the sport Baba and Amir watched together

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Buzkashi, the sport Baba and Amir watched together

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"Lore has it my father wrestled a black bear in Baluchistan with his bare hands"

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"Real men didn't read poetry and God forbid they should ever write it. Real men, real boys played soccer just as Baba had when he had been young. Now that was something to be passionate about".

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"Real men didn't read poetry and God forbid they should ever write it. Real men, real boys played soccer just as Baba had when he had been young. Now that was something to be passionate about".

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"Ali turned around, caught me aping him. He didn't say anything. Not then, not ever. He just kept walking"(8).

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Of course, marrying a poet was one thing, but fathering a son who preferred burying his face in poetry books to hunting...well, that wasn't how Baba had envisioned it, I suppose. Real men didn't read poetry -- and God forbid they should ever write it! Real men -- real boys -- played soccer just as Baba had when he had been young.... He signed me up for soccer teams to stir the same passion in me. But I was pathetic, a blundering liability to my own team... And the harder I tried, ... the more I went ignored.

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"A boy who won't stand up for himself becomes a man who can't stand up to anything." (ch. 3, p.22)

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"Real men didn't read poetry and God forbid they should ever write it. Real mean, real boys played soccer just as Baba had when he had been young."

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"Real men didn't read poetry and God forbid they should ever write it. Real mean, real boys played soccer just as Baba had when he had been young."

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Baba is benefiting from being in the higher class because he gets so many bonuses from being there. For example he is able to study and not struggle to survive, unlike the lower class people.

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afghanistan man on a horse - Google Search

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"Of course, marrying a poet was one thing, but fathering a son who preferred burying his face in poetry books to hunting...well, that wasn’t how Baba had envisioned it...real men didn’t read poetry--and God forbid they should ever write it!”

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"And where is he headed?" Baba said. "A boy who won't stand up for himself becomes a man who can't stand up to anything."