“With me as the glaring exception, my father molded the world around him to his liking. The problem of course, was that Baba saw the world in black and white. And he got to decide what was black and what was white. You can’t love a person who lives that way without fearing him too. Maybe even hating him a little.”

This inital quote, stated by Amir concerning his father, stuck to me after reading through it. To see the world in black and white…one or the other with no in between, no shades of gray.  To view the world in black and white  means that you view it as right/wrong, good/bad, yes/no etc. and personally, I did not think that Baba saw the world in black and white because to me, Ali and Hassan were the shade of gray that Baba saw. Ali and Hassan were supposed to be their servants and were looked down upon because they were Hazara and not Shi’ah (black) , but for Baba, they were his family and he treated them well (white) and taught Amir to do the same. So for this particular quote in the book, although I did like it, I did not fully agree with it because after thinking about it, I came to see that it was not fully accurate as far as my understanding, but also, everyone has their own interpretation of texts and how they view different characters, so I suppose this is a debatable topic depending upon how one views this particular quote and their analysis of the characters.