Kite Runner Amir Relationship

Every person goes through stages of changing perceptions of their parents: admiration, resentment, and respect. Young men and women all over the word experience the phenomenon of discovering new perspectives of the people that raise them. Throughout the course of Khaled Hosseini’s novel The Kite Runner, a naive protagonist, Amir, advances through different stages of how he views his father and transforms from a boy denied paternal love, to a grown man who gets respect from his father. Amir makes many selfish mistakes and feels that he brings shame to his father’s name, but little does he know that his precious Baba has done his fair share of sinning. These stages include Amir worshiping his father, Amir taking care and watching out for his

He strives to be just like Baba as a child, but as Amir grows up he shifts stages and realizes that is the last thing he wants.
Throughout the novel, Baba wears many hats: the hero, the human, and the sinner. The impact of Baba’s shifting personas affects Amir for the rest of his life. As a child, Amir admires Baba as any young boy would. Baba is a king in his eyes. He is a successful, wealthy man with a pristine reputation in their city of Kabul. At this point in time Baba plays the role of the hero. Everyone knows his name, and everyone has a story of how he positively affects their lives. Although Amir sees what everybody else sees in Baba, he also notices a different side that others are not aware of. Baba feels shame for his son and Amir knows it. When Baba looks out of the window, he often sees boys picking on Amir and he chooses only to put his head down and do nothing. Baba has no pride in his son and exclaims to Rahim Khan, “A boy who won't stand up for himself becomes a man who can't stand up to anything” (22). Amir knows that Baba is ashamed of him and it causes him to always feel emptiness inside of him where Baba’s love and affection should be. The reason that the