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    mother makes all the difference; the special bond a mother has with their child is something that cannot be replaced by the father. The same instant is seen between Amir and his father Baba, in the story The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini. The relationship Amir and Baba have is a strained relationship because of the differences in personality and values. This complicated relationship could have been avoided by having a mother figure in the household to help support Amir and his values. A mother can make

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    is Beautiful it becomes clear that the relationship between a father and a son in times of crisis develops and the father in a way becomes the sons hero. Father-Son Relationship In the book Night Elie bonds with his father as they go through rough experiences and their relationship becomes unbreakable, the bond between Joshua and Guildo also becomes stronger as they go through the experiences in the camp in the movie Life is Beautiful. Elie saw his father as the person that kept him motivated,

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    Father and Son Relationship The relationship between a father and his son is a very important part of his life but can be affected by past choices and opinions. A father is an influential person in his son's life and must guide him growing up. Elie and his father have a rather distant relationship, making it hard for Elie to have a close connection with his father. Elie and his father’s relationship is very complicated at the beginning of the memoir but as their roles reverse, they become closer

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    Shakespeare deals with a parent-child relationship in the historical plays of Henry IV Parts One and Two in the characters of Henry Bullingsworth (Henry IV) and his son Hal (Prince of Wales, later Henry V). The fact stands clear in the development of the son, Hal: the son's success in life is not dependent on his relationship to his father politically, but success is demonstrated when there is a realization of both parties on the level of parental love. Hal is not living up to his name, but also

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    in 1949. In the Death of a salesman, Willy is the father to Biff and Happy. Willy was a business man until he lost his job after returning from a business trip. Biff was Willy’s favorite child. The play emphases on the relationship between Willy and his oldest son Biff and how their relationship constantly changes. Family relationship and the American dream are addressed in the play death of a salesman through the relationship between father and son. Firstly, when Arthur Miller stated the Death of

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    Runner, which is the importance of a father-son relationship. Amir desperately tries to understand his father because he feels that he does not reach Baba’s high expectations, which he conveys by saying that he may “disappoint him again.” So, this drives him to want to do anything to make Baba proud. However, he even fails to understand his father’s one main principle: theft is sin. As a result of the confusion between father, Baba, and son, Amir, their relationship starts to wither away. Also, this

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    In Night by Elie Wiesel, Elie’s father acts hard-hearted toward Elie and his family and dismisses Elie’s idea to pursue Kabbalah with the belief that Elie’s age effects his understanding of Kabbalah. In Sighet Elie and his father hold a relationship as if they are two strangers to one another or as if his father provides food and shelter for Elie but gives him no love or affection. In Birkenau and Auschwitz, Elie and his father cherish a relationship of love and trust resulting in genuine loyalty

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    Every young boy craves for the love and affection that only a father can give. However, not everyone is lucky enough to have an active father or father figure in their life, especially in the African American community. In August Wilson’s playwright Fences, Wilson displays the struggle and strain that the lack father’s love can have on their relationship between their children through his characters Troy and Cory Maxson. Troy Maxson, a 53-year-old garbage, collector, and former “Negro League” ballplayer

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    novel, The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini establishes a type of relationship of a father and son in whom the son seeks his father’s love, and attention, while the father does not appreciate how his son is growing up to be. We have seen up until now that Baba dislikes the point that Amir does not resemble him in anyways, up to a point where Baba admitted, “If I hadn’t seen the doctor pull him out of my wife…I’d never believe he’s my son”(23). The reason Baba expresses this is since Amir does not resemble

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    My father is one of my best friends, and this is not a doubt. I love road bikes, motorcycles, and cars, and nobody around me has the same hobby as mine, except for him. We are just nothing but so close. He plays the piano. I do too. He plays the guitar. I do too. We are so close because he has always been the one who let me try new things, and meanwhile, I have leaned many things from him through them. That’s how he taught and raised me, and he is the one who made what I am today. In Khaled Hosseini’s

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