A Father and His Son

Amir, the main character and narrator of Kite Runner, seems to have a very tumultuous relationship with his father, Baba. Baba is a man of great esteem and wealth in his community. He has a large income from various business ventures. He is called Mr. Hurricane because he is a force of nature: tall, strong, and impossible to ignore. He shapes everything in his world to his likeness, expect for his son Amir. Amir worships is father and craves his attention and favor, but Baba openly detests  his son, claiming that there is something “missing” and that if he hadn’t seen the birth for himself then he wouldn’t have believed that Amir was his son. I believe that the stem of Baba’s hatred and disgust for Amir is the death of his wife. He blames Amir for the greatest sin possible, theft. Amir robbed Baba of his wife. Amir believes that the least he could do was have some likeness to his father, but he lacked that as well. I find it  extremely sad that Baba does not take time to understand his son, but instead finds distain in all of Amir’s actions. Amir craves his father’s attention so desperately, that he actually wished that all the orphans in his father’s orphanage would die, so that his father could spend more time with him. Amir has a sense of worship of his father but also hates him. He said that at times he wished he could cut his veins open and bleed out all his father’s blood. This is not something he should feel about his Baba, he should feel unconditional love and affection from his father.