Amir And Baba's Relationship In The Kite Runner

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Introduction:Fathers on the outside will not indicate feeling toward you but rather every father regardless of how "tough"or self pride they have somewhere deep down has a connection to you and relationship of love and it has to be expressed. This is a great example of amirs and baba's relationship. Amir and Baba all through the book have changed and changed from amir being a child, to moving to america with them both encountering new things thus did their relationship change.

A father is a figure is someone that means alot to you and you can turn to them for advice and for support on anything. Sons are affected by the behavior and how their dads treat people everyday and fathers are the only ones we is really we look to as a “man” and
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Amir is continually competing for his dad's affection regularly feels like an outcast in his dad's life. As a profoundly regarded representative in the public eye, Baba has a lot of power in their region of the world. The novel depicts the sentiments that Amir felt when he was out in town with his dad; he was glad for everyone to see that he was his this child of this amazing man. Notwithstanding, the book demonstrates that Amir has most unquestionably taken after his dead mother, who was a writing educator at a college. In one of the chapters, it portrays how Baba tries to guide him in the other …show more content…
The kite runner also foreshadows the event that amir can’t have a child and it sets up amir to have a Step-Son and I think reham khan also does this by saying there is a fake american family to give him too. With Amirs later “love” for Hassan as a biological brother he takes the challenge to become a dad and follow suite of a great father who was Hassan.

Hassan and Sohrab,his son, are very similar because they were both respectable characters and stood for what was right and always did the right thing no matter what was happening to them. Also the saying like father like son really is shown when Hassan was great at a slingshot and so was his son this was a thing in common. At the end of the book amir remembers the great moments hassan and him had at flying the kites together so the only thing that makes Sohrab show emotion is flying the kite and a motif here is when amir says“ for you a thousand times

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