Kite Ruuner Socratic Seminar #2 Reflection

     The socratic seminar influenced my thinking about the innocence of Amir. At first I had the mind set that Amir was using Baba's illness as a supplement to help be able to be able to get married with Soraya. But after having the discussion with the group, I realized that instead it was also a way to make his father happy before his father passed away. I realized that Baba actually wanted to see Amir grow up, and by getting married to a women shows how a male has improved and grown as a man. Because the group I was in wasn't as talkative, there wasn't really anything that was said or brought up that I hadn't thought of before. Except for the various ways that Amir was considered innocent, that I hadn't thought of before.
     The statement that was made by Connor where he stated that adjustment and adaptation really depends on the person themselves and the past experiences they've been through. You can't possibly just say that an adjustment to a specific area is going to be the same for all individuals. Because Baba and Amir were so used to the lifestyle of an upperclassmen, the way they were able to adjust to America was definitely much harder, than an average person whose moved from a place like Canada. If I had the chance the say anything else in the socratic seminar, it would be for me to ask the rest of my peers what they think would happen next and why? I would also ask, if Hassan's mother had never came back, how do you think the plot of the story would've changed?
     Something that worked really well in the seminar is the appeals we were able to establish. I feel as though we were able to accomplish alot of emotional appeals especially towards the end of the seminar where more people started to contribute to the discussion and were able to put out their thoughts and opinions on the topics that were brought up. Although we had a few dominators (emphasis on a few) we were able to give everyone who wanted to speak, a chance to speak.
     Something that definitely needs improvement is more people contributing to the discussion and answering more questions or even posting more questions. So many people were either shy or didn't feel like talking which made the discussion 10x less interesting than the potential that we had for it to be. I also feel as though we did alot of on-surface talking and didn't quite go into too much depth into any of the good ideas that were brought up.