10. Would your novel be different if the main character was of the opposite gender?

(Assume that significant others would change genders as well, if that is a factor.)
Explain how this change would or would not affect your story.
Yes, I think some events could have changed in the story because the story shows a
little bit of machism but I think it is due to the cultural difference. In this
paragraph it is shown that Baba wanted to make Amir a little bit of a man.
Of course, marrying a poet was one thing, but fathering a son who preferred
burying his face in poetry books to hunting... well, that wasn't how Baba had
envisioned it, I suppose. Real men didn't read poetry--and God forbid they should
ever write it! Real men--real boys--played soccer just as Baba had when he had
been young. Now _that_ was something to be passionate about. In 1970, Baba took
a break from the construction of the orphanage and flew to Tehran for a month to
watch the World Cup games on television, since at the time Afghanistan didn't
have TVs yet. He signed me up for soccer teams to stir the same passion in me. (p.
15)
So I deffinitely think that changing genders would hugely
affect the events in which the story was developed.