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Fremont, California

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Fremont, California

New Immigrants

            After Amir and Baba escaped from Afghanistan through Pakistan, they ended up in California.  "Baba loved the idea of America. It was living in America that gave him an ulcer." (125). There has been a great change in their lives from the hustle and bustle of high class Afghan living to hard-working lower-class American living. Now that Baba and Amir have moved to America, however, it seems their father-son relationship has improved. "I remember the two of us walking through Lake Elizabeth Park in Fremont, a few streets down from our apartment, and watching boys at batting practice, little girls giggling on the swings in the playground. Baba would enlighten me with his politics during those walks with long-winded dissertations." (125).

            The reason for this sudden change in their relationship could be a number of things. Baba might have actually begun to love Amir like a son or it might just be that Rahim Khan and the rest of Baba's Afghan friends are a thing of the past. However, moving too America was a good decision for Amir. It also seems that Baba gives Amir more respect now that he is older.  Amir grows up in California and meets Soraya, his wife.

 

Fremont, California

Amir's Return Home

     Although Amir lived in this home with Soraya before, the home has been transformed by Soraya for Sohrab.  The study is now his bedroom.  It is also the place where Soraya's parent come for dinner to meet Sohrab.  Most important, it is where Sohrab is totally silent and does not speak.

 

 

 

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