The Kite Runner Rhetorical Analysis

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Salvation. Redemption. Baba tires everything to model Amir to his liking. He introduces him to the game of soccer. When Amir is terrible at soccer he thinks that maybe Amir can just be a spectator. He takes him to a Buzkashi game, but Amir just ends up crying about the dying man. Baba says that “If I hadn’t seen the doctor pull him out of my wife with my own eyes, I’d never believe he’s my own son” (pg.23) “ I wasn’t like that at all, and neither were any of the kids I grew up with” (pg.22). Amir always feels disconnected with his father and tries to bring their relationship closer with writing for his father. His father doesn’t approve of this either though. “Marrying a poet was one thing, but fathering a son who preferred burying his face …show more content…
Kite fighting. “Kites were the one paper-thin slice of intersection between,” giving them a small sliver of something to bond through (pg.56). Baba is not usually very supportive of Amir, but in this, he is Amir’s number one fan. He goes out and buys Amir a kite from the best kite maker, Safiro. Amir feels that he can get the affection from Baba he craves, by winning the kite tournament. When Baba suggests that he may win the kite tournament, Amir thinks “Had he just slipped me the key?”(pg.56) he “had a mission now. And i wasn’t going to fail Baba”(pg.57). Amir doesn’t think about the satisfaction he will get from the tournament. The only thing that is driving him to win the tournament so much, is the idea that winning will bring him closer to Baba. During the whole tournament, Amir keeps “stealing glances at Baba sitting with Raham Khan on the roof” “ was he cheering for me? Or did part of him enjoy watching me fail?” (pg. 63) When Amir sees the blue kite, his first thoughts are “ Salvation. Redemption.” (pg.65) The kite is the key for amir to finally become closer to Baba, and make up for all the mistakes that Baba has frowned upon. When Amir wins, the world is no longer black and white like Baba had been forcing upon him, it was “color and sound, everything was alive and good”(pg.66) When Amir sees Baba on the roof “pumping both fists” and “proud of me at last” (pg.66), it is Baba
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