Baba And Amir Relationship Analysis

Baba and Amir had an extremely important relationship when he was a young boy. Almost everything he did was influenced by his father. He would do almost anything to win his father’s affection. Now that Amir is returning home to find Sohrab, after Baba’s death and many years without seeing his homeland, he is finally coming to terms with their relationship. By finding out that Hassan is his brother, Amir’s mental image of his father shatters, his vying for Baba’s attention goes away, and Amir finally accepts his childhood relations with Baba. When Amir visits Rahim Khan after he arrives in Pakistan, news that will change his whole world is waiting. Rahim Khan tells Amir that Hassan is his brother, and not just an ex-servant. As Rahim Khan describes “As it turned out, Baba and I were more alike than I’d ever known” (Hosseini 226) Amir learns how his father was not the perfect man. The Baba of his childhood was gone, and was replaced with one who was a lot like Amir. As a child, all Amir wanted was to be like his father. He constantly tried to emulate what his father did and how he acts. Now, he sees that they are not so different after all. They both betray people who would give the world for them, making Baba imperfect.
It allowed him to get rid of the perfect image of his father, and stop vying for his attention. These two ideas were the basis of Amir and Baba’s relationship for a long time until this truth knocked them both away. What was left of the father and son was a healed relationship. Amir no longer was competing to be like Baba and to have all of his attention, he was free to relax as himself. Finding Sohrab brought out dirty secrets that Baba kept hidden, but in the long run it brought down the barriers keeping Amir from accepting his childhood relationship with his father, helping him accept this