We can see the relationship between Amir and his father was distant and unhealthy through writer’s description in the Chapters.
Amir had mixed feelings about his father. He was proud of his father, wanted to be like him, wanted to be loved, approved and accepted by his father, but he also was feared, and stung by his father. For example,
Amir described his father was a force of nature. Attention shifted to his father like sunflowers turning to the sun. As people doubted his father that running a business wasn’t in his blood and he should study law like his father, his father succeeded in building an orphanage that drew the blueprints himself, a carpet-exporting business, two pharmacies and restaurant. Amir was so glad to have that chance to get to hold his father’s hat during his father’s speech at the opening ceremony. From those descriptions, we can see that Amir was very proud of his father and wants to be like him.
Also, in other descriptions, we can see that Amir desired very much to be loved, accepted and approved by his father, but it showed that he received that very little. He lied so he could have his father all to him when his father asked him to fetch Hassan also that day before the orphanage opened which they went to Ghargha Lake picnic. The reason was he couldn’t forget that his father patted Hassan on the back, even put his arm around Hassan’s shoulder. At the Ghargha Lake, Amir asked some questions from his father, but his father just grunted, didn’t answer. Even he said he thought he had saratan, his father just told him that he could get he soda himself, all he had to do was look in the trunk of the car that day. Amir was good at play a game called “Sherjangi” that everyone in his class wanted him on their team. But his father was never impressed and been proud of by his success on that. Amir wrote a story, he wanted to share with his father, but his father just nodded and gave him a thin smile that conveyed little more than feigned interest. His father just said“Well, that’s very good, isn’t it?” Then nothing more. He just looked at Amir through the cloud of smoke.
Another, Amire feared his father. Amir had a chance to sit on his lap. But he couldn’t decide whether he wanted to hug him or leap from his lap in mortal fear.
In addition, Amire was stung by his father when he heard his father said he’d never believe he was his son if he hadn’t seen the doctor pull him out of his wife with his own eyes. It really broke his heart.
Form another side, Amir’s father didn’t like and didn’t respect Amir to be what he was. He wanted his son to be what he wanted but his son had never become what he wanted. For example, Amir’s father signed Amir up for soccer teams and took him to Buzkashi tournament to watch game. But Amir did not show any possible sign to become success at that filed. All were failure. He even doubted something was missing in Amir and wondered if Amir might not be his son. It was so terrible that Amir’s father had that thinking.
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Jun - you have some good thoughts here but you need to focus a bit more and be more concise (shorter!). The support from the text should be a short quotation that demonstrates your thoughts - not a summary of a passage. Try to condense your thoughts to one paragraph next time!
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