Father Son Relationships In The Kite Runner

In his critically acclaimed first novel, The Kite Runner, author Khaled Hosseini tells the story of a 12-year-old Afghan boy named Amir, who seeks his father’s love but is hindered by his own cowardice. Both Amir’s cowardice and his father’s lack of attention are compounded by the people and events surrounding Amir, until they feed into each other in a vicious, never-ending cycle.

Sohrab’s attempt of suicide shows that Amir still does not understand what Sohrab has been going through. In other words, he can’t see things from Sohrab’s perspective. Moreover, what happened to Sohrab shows that Amir has difficulty understanding how young and vulnerable Sohrab is. Every child has something in his or her mind that they are really afraid of, such as monsters or ghost, and Sohrab faced them all when he enslaved or watch her parents got murdered. He was a victim. When Amir broke his promise he gave to Sohrab, it made Sohrab feel insecure. Overall, being abandoned again was too much for Sohrab to take.

The illegitimate son of Baba and Amir’s half-brother (which he didn’t knew until after Hassan’s death), Hassan was a truly good and beautiful person even though he's had his fair share of hard times. In my opinion, Hassan has it tougher than Amir from the beginning. Not only did Hassan lose his mother (like Amir), his mother flat-out rejected him But Hassan, unlike Amir, is a selfless and joy-filled creature. They spent most their childhood together playing games, reading books and flying kites until that fateful day where he was deprived of his pride. Hassan had a very good relation with Baba as it would later prove out to be his father as well. After the war stricken years, Rahim Khan asked him to come back to the house in Kabul and agrees after thinking about it. He felt that he was near Amir by living in that house and that he’s loyal. His loyalty and integrity are the essence of his character. He and his wife were slaughtered by the Talibans in the earlier part of 2000, thus ending the life on an inspiring individual.

"There are a lot of children in Afghanistan, but little childhood,” says the protagonist of The Kite Runner. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini explores the tangle of a guilty Afghanistan child named Amir, and his journey through life as he tries to hide his lies. The boy is born to a wealthy family, but his mother dies during childbirth and leaves him to his aloof father. The only refuge he has is found in Hassan, the Hazara servant who he ridicules as often as he can, yet seems to love in many occasions. Amir cowardly let’s Hassan fight his battles for him all the time, and does not help when Hassan is harmed by Assef, a malevolent kid and his gang of thoughtless followers.

The differences between Amir and Baba in how they did their parenting was extraordinarily different. Amir was always trying to get Baba’s attention and attempting to do anything with him. All the while Baba has more important matters than to talk to Amir “‘Go on, now,’ he’d say. ‘This is grown-ups’ time. Why don’t you go read on of those book of yours’” (5). He had no want to spend time with Amir. With Sohrab, the interactions with Amir flip from how it was with Baba. Instead of Sohrab constantly attempting to have Amir’s time and attention, Amir is the one who has to fight for Sohrab’s small uncaring mind.

They start their relationship as two young boys in Pakistan. They are each other’s best friends and spend every day together. Although Hassan is a Hazara, which is looked down upon in Amir’s culture, it does not affect their relationship in the beginning. As the story progresses, they hit a bump in their relationships. One

In Khaled Hosseini's book the kite runner the Amir returns to Pakistan to visit an old friend Rahim Khan who brings home some good news.

Throughout the book “The Kite Runner” the relationships between fathers and sons takes a very important role. Baba and Amir’s relationship is probably the most important one, throughout the novel their relationship becomes stronger. When Amir is a child in Afghanistan, his and Baba’s differences cause them to have a different relationship than most fathers and sons. Hassan and Ali’s relationship is kind of like Baba and Amir’s, Ali loves Hassan deeply but fails to show it sometimes. Although Baba is really Hassan’s father, Hassan doesn’t know it, but Baba treats him very well. Baba takes care of him, feeds him, Hassan lives with him while his “father” Ali is Baba’s servant. Father

For years psychologists have studied how people evolve. Some believe that we are predetermined through genetics. Clichés such as, “The acorn does not fall far from the tree,” suggest that parents and lineage are the greatest influence. Others believe that role models are more influential. Another cliché “like father, like son” did not derive out of nowhere. The book, The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hossieni, exemplifies this belief. Early in their relationship, the protagonists, father Baba and son Amir appear very different. Amir glorifies his father but is disappointed when it is not reciprocated. Despite their initial differences, their parallels are shown as the book progresses. These similarities become even more

The relationship between a father and son is not always to be seen through love, but through hardships and understanding. One of the main themes in The Kite Runner is filled with the agony and struggle within a father-son relationship. In the novel, the characters of Baba and Amir portray this relationship through their contrasting backgrounds and interests as father and son. Amir’s constant notion to impress his father with his writing pulls him through sorrow and regret while Baba’s constant fear of keeping his second Hazaran son in secret leaves him full of guilt. However, their relationship resolves soon after moving to America, the land of which they believe cleans out their guilt and sorrow. Through the characters of Baba and Amir in The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini juxtaposes the lifestyles in the countries of Afghanistan and America in order to depict that social and economic differences based on setting can make changes in a father-son relationship.

Intro: The novel “The kite Runner,” is a very emotive story of a Pashtun boy’s childhood. The author describes the relationship between the characters in the story as the readers’ sees such as the hate-love bond between Amir and Baba, Hassan and Ali, and Baba’s sufficient care and attention towards Hassan. In the story one of the major themes is the son and father relationship concerning Baba and Amir is not very optimistic. The novel unwinds the intensifying quality of the relationship between the two important main characters and Amir's consistent battle for Baba's affection creates positive results in the relationship.

Baba's father sets an example for him of being kind to Hazara people, even though they are historically demeaned and persecuted. He could have easily sent Ali to an orphanage after his parents' death, but chose to raise him in his household. Baba does the same with Hassan, although this is complicated by the fact that Hassan is actually his son. Even in Baba's house, the house of best intentions, the class barrier between the Pashtuns and Hazaras endures. Ali is as dear to Baba as a brother; he calls him "family." But Ali still lives in a hut and sleeps on a mattress on the floor. He tends the garden, cooks, and cleans up after Baba, and raises Hassan to do the same. So strong is Hassan's identity as a servant that even as an adult, when Baba is gone, he has no sense of entitlement. He insists on staying in the hut and doing housework. When Hassan dies defending Baba's house, he does so not because he feels it belongs to him, but because he is being loyal to Baba and

In The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini, Amir views the Kite Tournament as an important mission to win his father’s affections. Amir and his father’s relationship has always been distant. Consequently, Amir is viciously envious of any other children that receive the attention of his father. Moreover, Amir’s father does not appreciate his son’s effeminacy, and claims that “there is something missing” (24) in him. He disapproves most of Amir’s passions, like poetry and prose, but has a keen interest for one: kite fighting. Despite never winning any tournaments, Amir is a talented kite fighter. When his father casually suggests that he thinks Amir has a chance of winning at the upcoming competition, Amir believes he has been “slipped … a key” (59)

The Kite Runner  The Kite Runner is a novel that talks about the story of a tense family relation between a father (Baba) and a son (Amir), and between two half-brothers (Amir and Hassan). It also talks about how they go about their guilt, and forgiveness as well as weathering the dogmatic and social turmoil in their current setting in Afghanistan. Using specific plots and historical facts, this essay will discuss the assertion that the novel would not exist without the class difference between the brothers. The plot of the story obviously shows that Amir was a scion of a wealthy merchant from Afghanistan who happened to belong to the Pashtun tribe that believed that it was the real native of the land.

The father-son dynamic is one of the most explored themes in the Kite Runner. Written by Khaled Hosseini, the book illustrates the life in Afghanistan in the perspective of Amir, a conflicted character who struggles between loving and fearing his father. In the beginning, Amir holds Baba in high regards because of his father’s good-willed feats, and despises himself for his jealousy leading to his betrayal of Hassan. When Amir discovers Hassan’s parentage and Baba’s deception, he realizes “as it turned out, Baba and I were more alike than I’d ever known” (226). While the two of them can appear similar in character, it is important to consider how they face their wrongdoings. Baba’s hypocritical and self-righteous beliefs greatly contrast with Amir’s sincere repentance and compassion for other people’s mistakes. Not only does Baba avoid addressing the core issue of Hassan, he associates Amir with his own guilt and cannot accept responsibility. In contrast, Amir journeys into the war-torn country to redeem himself, refusing to give up on Sohrab and let his guilty conscience come between them. Although Baba and Amir’s mistakes are of an ill-disposed nature, Amir admits to his wrongdoings and tries to rectify the situation by risking his life to save Sohrab, while Baba takes his secret to the grave; therefore, Amir deserves forgiveness, while Baba does not.