Reflection On The Kite Runner

I am reading the book, The Kite runner by Khaled Hosseini. In the first 100 pages we are introduced to the main character Amir, his dad Baba, their servant, and their servant’s son. Amir lives a prosperous life because of his wealthy father, but he and his father treat their servants as if they were their own. Amir grew up with their servant’s son Hassan, and they create a bond between them that not all the money in the world could break. Their bond was comparable to a brothers bond, although they are not related. Amir is an only child because his mother died while giving birth to him, so Hassan is all Amir has besides his father. Although Amir treats Hassan comparable to a brother, he does not wish to be associated with him in public. In …show more content…
An illustration from the text is when Amir mentioned, “Then I’d bring it home and show it to Baba. Show him once and for all that his son was worthy. Then maybe my life as a ghost in this house would finally be over” (Hosseini 56). From this, one can conclude that Amir thinks that the only way to feel loved by his father is to get his attention and impress him. Baba shows his love for Hassan by hiring a plastic surgeon, but does nothing to show his love for Amir. Lastly, Amir becomes jealous when Assef bonds with Baba so easily. Assef is Amir’s enemy that always picks on him and Hassan, so when he and his father bond easily at Amir’s birthday party he became furious. Baba and Asssef would talk about soccer; Amir became apprehensive at that point because he knew he was not genuinely athletic. Amir does anything and everything to prove himself, although he believes he is not vigorous enough to prove himself. He envied the bond that Assef had with his father for talking about sports; something his father could not do with him. As well as being jealous Amir is also non-sympathetic for a multitude of reasons. For instance, one example of Amir being non-sympathetic is when he