Chapter 10 - Kite Runner

Recently in Kite Runner after Ali and Hassan left Baba, Baba and Amir fled from Kabul.  On the way to Pakistan they faced different life or death situations.  One time they got they stopped by Russian officers, Baba refused to let the 18 year old girl riding with them leave with one of the officers.  One of the officers threatened to kill Baba, but he still refuses to let her go.  Although the officer has a gun to his head.  Luckily Baba ends up surviving because of the older, more wiser officer pulls the younger officer out of the dispute.  For some reason after Amir thinks to himself, "Why does Baba always have to be the hero?"  I hope that later in the book I will discover why this so.