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Amir, the main character of Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner, is a boy who longs for the admiration and acceptance of his father. Baba and Amir cannot have the relationship Amir desires because of the characteristics and expectations of each other. Amir wants to have Baba all to himself, Amir is weak in Baba’s eyes and Amir is not how Baba envisioned his son. All in all, Amir just wants to be respected by his father. Amir wishes to have his father all to himself, he wants to spend time with Baba without anyone else.
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Baba was a typical father that expected his son to be into athletic things such as soccer and such, and when Amir tried things of that nature, he felt bad because he was not as good as Baba had hoped. But one thing that interested both Amir and Baba was the Kite tournament. It was Amir’s dream to win the tournament so that Baba could be proud of something that he did. Later on throughout the story, Amir won that tournament and in order to show Baba the winning kite, the price he had to pay was to watch his friend Hassan get raped. In Chapter 7 Amir states, “I actually aspired to cowardice, because the alternative, the real reason I was running, was that Assef was right: Nothing was free in this world.
Redemption and Atonement Rahim Kahn states, "There is a way to be good again". Proving Kahn's point, the author, Khaled Hosseini , establishes a theme of endless pursuit of redemption and "being good again". Throughout the novel, Amir, the narrator and main protagonist, strives to earn his father's approval. Through those efforts he maims his only true friendship and crushes another person's faith and dignity, and spends the rest of his life trying to repair the damage done by that selfish mistake. Hosseini shows us through Amir that even in the face of overwhelming odds, the human spirit has a determination to embrace the things that make life worth living.
Amir wants to win the kite tournament, and surely he does. Amir is very happy he was victorious and this is an excellent time in his life that is filled with joy and happiness. But later in the book gears start to turn as there is a turn of events. Amir goes to Afghanistan once Hassan, Amir’s child hood friend, gets killed by the Taliban 40 years later, to pick up a boy named Sohrab. While going to pick up the boy he meets a man, who has the boy, whose name is Assef, Amir’s nemesis.
One of the most intriguing aspects of The Odyssey is the relationship between Odysseus and Telemakhos, his son. In The Odyssey, the father is proud of his son, and the son is likewise proud of his father, who has earned an enviable reputation as a warrior who defended their honor bravely. We see that the father-son affection is achieved only through distance through most of the Books. Odysseus and Telemakhos spend more time apart than they do together, and it is through distance that they develop admiration and love for one another. The German philosopher, Friedrich Nietzsche, quoted