KK Socratic Seminar Reflection #2
The final Socratic Seminar that we had about Kite Runner was full of insight and knowledge that is always, never expressed when someone reads alone, and doesn't have a discussion with anyone. Such as something that I hadn't thought about before, such as the way that family and culture are stressed so heavily in this book. Such as the way that even when Amir and Baba com o America , along with other Afghans at the time, the culture they had was somewhat changed with their movement while much of it also remained the same. Such as the way that women would now go to work, but something that remained the same would be that thy still used the same type of tradition in getting married.
The statement that I agree with the most from the discussion would be the statement about the way that Baba was not cowardly in laving Afghanistan but that he was smart for what he did, and he did this to protect himself and his family. The thing that I disagree with the most would be the statement someone made about Amir never telling anyone about what he did. I feel that one day he will finally come to terms about what he did and explain his reasons for doing what he did. And Maybe, just maybe he will finally forgive himself.
I think the thing that worked really well this discussion would be that everyone came prepared and it really seemed like a discussion, by the way that people actually disagreed with what other people had said and with this it just seemed like an actual seminar.
Something
that I would say we needed to work on would be that too many of the same people
were consistently talking, and a lot of times people would get cut off in my
opinion and it just seemed like that could have been avoided and will most
likely be something to work on for next year.