The Kite Runner Amir's Relationship Analysis

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Escaping his father’s aloofness in his mother’s books was the only thing keeping some connection with his father. His father was distant towards Amir. Amir thought that his father hated him because his mother died while giving birth to him. Amir feels responsible for his mother’s death. “Without me as the glaring exception, my father molded the world around him to his liking. The problem, of course, was that Baba saw the world in black and white. And he got to decide what was black and what was white. You can’t love a person who lives that way without fearing him too. Maybe even hating him a little” (Hosseini 15). This tells the reader that they did not have a close relationship, but there was a lot of respect. Baba was a powerful man and got whatever he wanted. Amir was intimidated by this. It shows that Amir and his father weren’t close in Amir’s early childhood.
Rahim Khan was a friend of Baba’s and was like a father to Amir. If Amir needed anything like moral support or a shoulder to cry on, Rahim was there. Rahim Khan was also like a voice of reasoning throughout the book. He gives Amir advice all the time, even in his adult life. One day he calls Amir and says that he can make …show more content…

He tried to tell his father about his experiences and his father shamed him. When he and his father moved to America, Amir tried to become as westernized as possible. Giving up religion and Afghan customs. When Rahim Khan calls him, this changes Amir. When he and Rahim meet, he goes to look for his nephew and prays to Allah on the way. When he brings his nephew home with him, he makes a makeshift praying rug and bows to pray to Allah. He ends up regaining his faith. “I throw my makeshift jai-namaz, my prayer rug, on the floor and I get on my knees, lower my forehead to the ground, my tears soaking through the sheet. I bow to the west. Then I remember I haven’t prayed in over 15 years” (Hosseini

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