In ‘The Kite Runner’, readers learn that Baba is depicted as the definition of masculine in Amir’s eyes. Baba’s nickname is “Mr Hurricane”, which we learn from Rahim Khan, who is Baba’s business partner; highlighting Baba was a large, fix-set man. He had a high status of power in his presence from the way he looks; “very tall”, “big hands”, “big legs”, and his “thick beard” even by the way he spoke. Baba appears like a “force of nature”, who is highly respected man who could not go unnoticed. This contrasts with Amir, which consequently provokes a sense of uneasiness, because Amir’s considerable lack of masculinity is exposed as being his primary weakness to gaining the affection that he desperately desires from Baba. Baba’s expectations of