assignment2

Amir's relationship with his father is complicated. Both of them have the same important lady in their lives. For Amir, she's the mother; For his father, She's the "princess" and wife. Thus, Amir and his father have blood ties. Notwithstanding that, their relationship seems unhealthy. In the most time, they're distant. For example, Amir wrote a story by himself and shown it to his father, but "baba went on staring me down, and didn't offer to read". The father's so detached that Amir wished "I could open my veins and drain his cursed blood from my body". However, sometimes they're close, such as when they talked about the definition of "sinner". It's hard to say Amir likes or hates his father because his feelings to his father are mixed with worship and dread. In other words, it's the emotion of awe. Actually, it's the common emotion to fathers from little boys. Therefore, their relationship is complicated and cannot be defined as a healthy or unhealthy one.