Kite Runner Socratic Seminar #1 Reflection

     The seminar influenced my thinking about Amir and why he does what he does. At first my view of him was very negative, I almost hated him. My anger towards Amir was so strong due to the fact that he never stood up for Hassan. But after people brought up the fact that its not completely his fault, it was just 1. he was still a kid, a very non-confident one 2.the way he was raised and taught from his society about Hazaras greatly impacts the way he treats Hassan. 
     When Sasha said that the only reason she'd understand Amir or feel sympathetic for him is the fact that Amir himself can barely stand up for himself and with people around him saying negative things about Hazara's, it pretty much made him become hesitant to jump in for his friend. That is one statement that I agreed with the most. I agree, because that pretty much opened my eyes and almost convinced me that maybe it isn't completely Amir's fault for walking away when Hasan was getting raped. Yet, i still find it petty that he wouldn't stand up for a friend of his that he'd grown up with and had gotten breast fed from the same breast. If there was anything else I could say in the seminar is, i would of posted a question asking, "how do you think that the story so far has depicted the title, the Kite Runner". I feel like i would really like to get the insight of what people think and how they've interpreted the story so far.
     Something that worked really well is that i feel like we definitely were able to establish our logical appeals much more clearly now without having to actually say which appeal we were trying to use. I feel as though, the appeals are getting much more obvious but not to the point where you'd have to state what appeal you were trying to get at. I also believe that something that went well was how when there was an awkward silence, someone was always there to jump in to continue on the conversation, which is something I was really pleased with.
     Something that needs improvement is probably just being able to establish more emotional appeals. I feel like we aren't really emphasizing the emotional vibe as much as we are capable of. I feel as though we are more so just evenly answering and establish each appeal equally rather than raising the emotional appeal. And not only that, I feel like once there is an emotional appeal posted, we didn't go in much depth into it as much as we could have.