Father And Son In The Kite Runner

Not everyone needs a father to grow up. The relationship between a father and his child is a relationship that some can attempt to replicate, but is often never as raw and unique. A father is the person that helps his son grow into a man. They guide you and are someone you can rely on, a shoulder to cry on, someone who has faith in you when it seems no one else does. This is similar to how your mother is, but a fatherly figure is unique in their own different way. Anyone who has read The Kite Runner will notice a majority of the book focuses on the relationships of the various father-to-son duos, and how it impacts the both of them. The relationship between father and son in The Kite Runner shapes the personalities of the characters, and we see this between Baba and Amir, Amir and Sohrab, and Hassan and Sohrab. All of these pairs have different relationships, some good and some bad, that at the end of the book, moulds the personalities of the characters. But before we delve

Hassan becomes a great father because of guidance from Ali and by overcoming his personal struggles. Hassan plays with Sohrab, listens to how he feels, understands him and cares for him, everything Baba did not do. Sohrab has a good early life with his father, those years acted as a foundation for how he would most likely grow up to be. He also resembles Hassan’s forgiving nature, an example of this being when Sohrab says "Father used to say it is wrong to hurt even bad people. Because they do not know any better and because bad people sometimes become good." (Hosseini, 318) And one of the more ironic resemblances we see is in the use of the slingshot. Sohrab’s time spent with Hassan helps mould him into a forgiving, kind boy, unlike Amir, whose early years are spent chasing his father’s attention and affection, which leads to behavioral