"A boy who cant stand up for himself becomes a man who can't stand up for anything."

Babe says on page 22 "A boy who can't stand up for himself become a man who can't stand up for anything." Do you agree or disagree? Explain.

I do agree with what Babe says because when you become accustomed to something that's what you constantly do. Trying to change something as big like that is extremely hard. So when going from not defending yourself to defending yourself and standing up for something. It's either people are going to take you as a joke or you just wont have the courage to change peoples perception of you. I believe you should always stand up for yourself and for what you believe in so that people do not take advantage of you and try to walk all over you. Baba says this because he wants Amir to stand up for himself and what he believes in. What he says is really deep because trying to break the mold of who you are and what your trying to become is hard.