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Father Son Relationship

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Amir’s relationship with his father is a complex one. On a hand, Amir admires his father and is proud to have as his father. On another hand, he hates his father because he feels like he is incapable of amounting to (meeting up with/ rising to/ fulfilling) his father’s expectations. Amir said: “Most days, I worship Baba with an intensity approaching the religious. Butright then, I wished I could open my veins and drain his cursed blood from my body.” (Hosseini, 2003, p. 32). Thus, the turmoil Amir has with himself and his father during his childhood and up until his adulthood is due to this love-hate relation with his father.
Identifying this relationship of Amir and Baba can be approached by a few psychological aspects. For instance, the acronym …show more content…

As Freud (1921:34) claimed that the father has a significant role in establishing the son’s gender identity. Pease (2000:56) stated that the son’s personal and social behavior is influenced by the father’s physical and emotional insufficiency. Another expert, Steve Biddulph, a child psychologist, also believes that sons need their fathers as their role models. He states that “to become a good man, you have to know good men” (Jardine, 2010). Therefore, the father failure to be a good role model compromises the son’s personality and …show more content…

In Recreating Men, Pease (2000) addresses issues of patriarchal expectations of father-son relationships, and violence, fear and oppression in father son relationships (Pease, 2000). If the son goes through any of these conditions in his relationship with his father, the relationship may have high chances of becoming strained. In fact, the father sets negative emotions like fear, anger and resentment to the son while trying to make his son a better man. This immensely influences the son’s morality and his quest for his identity as a

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We get to know a lot about Amir, a young boy, and his father, Baba Throughout the story we see Baba’s gradual change in character, turning from the cold distant father he was to the loving and caring father Amir wanted him to be. Baba fills the hole inside himself that was dug by guilt in Afghanistan by learning to move on from his sins and build a relationship with his son in America. The loss of his wife, Sofia Akrami, created the hole. After her death and Amir’s birth, he felt such despair that he had an affair with his best friend, Ali’s, wife. This only created more guilt, as he impregnated her with Hassan.

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(Pg.301) This quote suggest that Amir realizes that when Baba was hard on him it was because he wanted him to be a better man than Babe. In addition Baba felt like he needed Amir to be a good man and the only way was to be hard on him. Therefore without Baba and the way he was with Amir, He wouldn't have been the man he grew up to be.

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