Essay on Relationship Analysis Between Amir and Hassan: What is the Root of the Problem Khaled Hosseini, in his novel The Kite Runner, highlights the key point about how jealousy can influence and ruin a friendship. Amir's unstable relationship with his father prevents him from knowing the true value of the relationship he shared with Hassan. Amir and Baba have a volatile relationship because Amir feels that his father dislikes him. Amir envies Baba and Hassan's relationship when he sees that his father treats Hassan better than him. Amir's jealousy starts to take over him when, he hears his father say that he wishes Amir was more like Hassan, his father shows Hassan more affection and when he sees that his father worries and shows more self towards Hassan. Amir is not as his father would like him to be, he has a more gentle and empathetic character, while Baba is a severe man. One day, after returning from the game where he witnessed someone die, he cried the entire car ride home. Later that night he heard something that changed him forever. What he hears is his father and Rahim Khan talking about him: “Self-defense has nothing to do with meanness. You know what always happens when the neighborhood kids tease him? Hassan intervenes and pushes them back” (Hosseini 24). Amir's father in this statement compares Hassan to Amir and indirectly says that he wishes Amir was more like Hassan. This comparison results in a complex situation, which makes Amir feel that Hassan is better than him and that he is short. This causes Amir to get angry at Hassan forming a hatred towards him. Baba keeps saying very hurtful things about Amir to his friend Rahim Khan in the study. The father goes on to say, “If I hadn't seen with my own eyes the doctor take him out of my wife, I would never believe he was my son” (Hosseini 25). This statement