Nothing But a Winner

But coming close wasn't the same as winning, was it? ... He had won because winners won and everyone else just went home.

In this quote we see both winner and loser being mentioned. As a child Amir really looked up to his father and wished that he could be exactly like him, but there was only one problem Amir and his father never had time to themselves as Amir always felt ignores and hated by his father. His father was considered a winner by everyone who knew him, and Amir felt that the only way that he could win over his father was by competing in a completion and beat all the competitors just as his father had done as a child. Amir felt that coming close to a victory wasn’t enough that he actually had to win to be able to be treated as he wished.