Baba numerously neglects Amir being his son encouraging this hurtful relationship with him which is betraying Amir throughout his life. Amir seeking his father’s attention is often feeling like an outsider in his own father’s life. Throughout the novel its seen Amir wanting to share that feeling every other father son relationship is "Go on, now," he'd say. "This is grown-ups' time. Why don't you go read one of those books of yours?" (5) Amir’s relationship with Baba is fake because right from the start Baba never accepted Amir as his son. In Baba’s eyes Amir had killed his princess and he lived while his mother died. Throughout Amir youth he felt as his father disowns him because he kill his mother leaving Baba looking pathetic with a child
