Father and Son- John Dunne

The picture above shows a father and his son using their hands and feet to make a heart. This photo is supposed to represent the bond and love shared between father and son. Tom Henderson lacks this bond with his father because of his mysterious death. The main conflict in the novel is Tom’s quest to find out more about his father’s death and more about his past. Tom does this in effort to make a connection with his deceased father. Throughout the whole novel Tom is in constant search for clues to try to fulfill this bond with his father and fill that empty piece inside of him. Tom’s behaviour throughout the novel towards his father is much like Amir from “The Kite Runner”. Amir is constantly trying to impress his father in order to grow the bond between father and son. This is much like Tom’s effort to find out more about his father in order to grow the bond between father and son. This picture helps represent the effort to enhance relationships between father and son in both Tom and Amir’s case.