Adult vs. Child Amir

From chapter 14 to 19, I think there are some similar things between the adult character of Amir and the child character of Amir. I think Amir most time only care about himself, no matter how the people important for him. For example, when Rahim Khan wants Amir to go to Kabul, and to bring Hassan’s son Sohrab, he said he can’t. He said, “I have a wife in America, a home a career, and a family. Kabul is a dangerous place, you know that, and you’d have me risk everything for…” (In page 197) Amir refused Rahim Khan. This is Rahim Khan last wish, and it also is the way to end Ami’s cycle, but Amir refused it because he is afraid. It is as same as what he did when he was a child. Although he do it at last, I think it just because he know Hassan is his brother, and atone for his and his father’s crimes. Another thing is same since Amir’s childhood is Amir’s father used, “A boy who won’t stand up for himself becomes a man who can’t stand up to anything,” this sentence to describe young Amir, and Rahim Khan also use it again when Amir became an adult, then Amir said, “Maybe Baba was right.” (In page 197) but he also have some differences. Just like the case that Rahim Khan wants he to bring Soharb back. Crossing those chapters that I read before, I think if in the child character of Amir, no matter what Rahim Khan said, he will never go to Kabul. But now, he went there. He goes, because he grows up, he can think more side of one thing, and he can surmount his fears. This is more better than before. So, I think Amir has some thing are similar, but he changed some side better since he was a child.