Theme Of Father Son Relationships In The Kite Runner

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The relationship between a father and a son is a bond that only something extremely strong could break. In The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini, there are many significant father-son relationships. The three main relationships in this novel are Baba and Amir, Hassan and Sohrab, and Amir and Sohrab. Father-son relationships are important in this novel because they determine many key events and their outcomes. To start, the relationship between Baba and Amir shouldn’t really be called a relationship. Amir has very different interests than his father, which include reading and writing stories. This creates a strong social blockade between the two. In the beginning of the book, Baba took Amir to a Buzkashi tournament, which was a tournament …show more content…

You don’t get to fill them in with your favorite colors” (Hosseini 21). Rahim Khan means that parents can’t make their children do what they want them to. Baba thinks that if he tries hard enough, he can get Amir to share some interests with him, but it is a lost cause. Rahim Khan tells Baba that the least he could do is just support Amir and be proud of him. This quote applies to real life father-son relationships because all parents have at least a little bit of hope that their child should share some of their interests. Baba is the source of Amir’s guilt, by showing that he wouldn’t allow Amir to talk to him. This is a characterization of Baba because it shows that he thinks he’s doing what’s best for Amir, and helping him become a better person, but in reality, he is creating everything he doesn’t want in a son. Baba is not proud of Amir, and does not treat him as a father should. Amir feels like he has to prove his worth to his father and show him how great he really is. Amir enters a kite running competition with Hassan, hoping to win and finally prove his dad wrong. He wins, but is conflicted when he comes across Hassan in an alley, being beaten by

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