Özet:

Family, one of the most fundamental structures of society, has been one of the most priority concepts in all societies for centuries. Every person takes his first step in life in the family and experiences his first experience in the name of socialization. The newborn child begins life with his parents or brothers. Family relationships play an effective role throughout the child’s life. In this context, family relationships have the potential to shape the character of the child. Fathers and mothers are the sources for both boys and girls to gain experiences that they will not forget throughout their lives. The purpose of this article is to explore the relationship between the father and son in the contemporary American Indian writer Sherman Alexie's short story collection, The Masked Knight and Tonto is Drunking in Heaven, and the contemporary Turkish writer Orhan Pamuk's novel with red-haired women, and to reveal how this relationship affects the development of the boy. The 'father', which has a well-known place in a boy's life, is also a primary role model for the boy and is a symbol of competence. Both of our writers also translate the story to the reader from the language of a son abandoned by his father. In this context, in both works, the boy who grows with the absence of a father cannot establish healthy relationships. Although Alexie and Pamuk are on the same topic, in the Pamuk novel, Oedipus and Rüstem and Sührab are the legends that change the flow of both the story and the father-son relationship.

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