The Kite Runner Father Son Relationship Essay
The Kite Runner
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Essay: The complex relationship.
By Mia Malene
A lot of people in the western part of the world has lack of knowledge about Immigrants and the Middle East. I’ve read the novel The Kite Runner, and I mean that the book can give us another impression of what the Middle East is about- My focus in this essay is on one of the similarities found in The Middle East compared to the rest of the world. I think that the book can change people's attitude about people living in the Middle East and immigrants, because their humanity is recognizable.
The first part of the novel plays out the complex relationship between the boy Amir and his father called Baba. Amir senses disappointment from his father, …show more content…
They live together with two servants, also father and son. The four of them and their relationship is complex, as the book reveals later on. The servant's boy Hassan and Amir share a profound love besides all their differences – one is wealthy, the other poor, one is secular, the other religious. Baba later on decides to move to America, to give his son Amir an opportunity to graduate from college. The challenges for Amir and his seeking for approval continues.
“Sometimes I asked Baba if I could sit with them, but Baba would stand in the doorway. “Go on now” he’d say. “This is grown-ups’ time. Why don’t you go read one of those books of yours?” He’d close the door, leave me to wonder why it was always grown-ups’ time with him. I’d sit by the door, knees drawn to my chest. Sometimes I sat there for an hour, sometimes two, listening to their laughter, their chatter.”
This is an excerpt from the book where Amir gives the first introduction of his father. The reason why I think exactly this excerpt is so relevant in the course of my essay is because it captures the essence of the relationship between Amir and his father. It is specified in chapter two as the various main characters are presented. Since it is given so early in the book it modifies the reader with a feeling of the distance between Amir and
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Essay: The complex relationship.
By Mia Malene
A lot of people in the western part of the world has lack of knowledge about Immigrants and the Middle East. I’ve read the novel The Kite Runner, and I mean that the book can give us another impression of what the Middle East is about- My focus in this essay is on one of the similarities found in The Middle East compared to the rest of the world. I think that the book can change people's attitude about people living in the Middle East and immigrants, because their humanity is recognizable.
The first part of the novel plays out the complex relationship between the boy Amir and his father called Baba. Amir senses disappointment from his father, …show more content…
They live together with two servants, also father and son. The four of them and their relationship is complex, as the book reveals later on. The servant's boy Hassan and Amir share a profound love besides all their differences – one is wealthy, the other poor, one is secular, the other religious. Baba later on decides to move to America, to give his son Amir an opportunity to graduate from college. The challenges for Amir and his seeking for approval continues.
“Sometimes I asked Baba if I could sit with them, but Baba would stand in the doorway. “Go on now” he’d say. “This is grown-ups’ time. Why don’t you go read one of those books of yours?” He’d close the door, leave me to wonder why it was always grown-ups’ time with him. I’d sit by the door, knees drawn to my chest. Sometimes I sat there for an hour, sometimes two, listening to their laughter, their chatter.”
This is an excerpt from the book where Amir gives the first introduction of his father. The reason why I think exactly this excerpt is so relevant in the course of my essay is because it captures the essence of the relationship between Amir and his father. It is specified in chapter two as the various main characters are presented. Since it is given so early in the book it modifies the reader with a feeling of the distance between Amir and