The seminar influenced my
understanding of the friendship between Amir And Hassan. I now understand Amir’s
conflict of being friends with Hassan, but being ashamed of him at the same
time due to his status. One specific thing said that deepened my thinking was
that Hassan might only have this great respect for Amir due to his social superiority,
an idea that I’m unsure whether or not I agree with.
The
statement from a peer that I agree with the most was that Baba doesn’t believe
that Amir is worth the death of his wife. We constantly see Baba being
disappointed with his son’s life choices, and I believe he wouldn’t care as
much if Amir’s birth hadn’t killed his wife. I least agreed with the idea that
Hassan’s mother was a terrible person for leaving. She was forced into an
arranged marriage to a man with physical disabilities, she can’t be fully
blamed for leaving. However, this isn’t an opinion that I was able to fully
vocalize, and I wish I were able to have said this because the discussion
continued in a direction I didn’t agree with.
Almost everyone seemed to have
understood the material very well and this led to a very deep and intellectual
conversation. We were also finally able to establish emotional appeals in our
conversation.
I still
think many people are too shy to talk… we have a few dominators that make their
points and a few kids that have things to say but they don’t. The idea of
splitting up the dominators from the less vocal kids is one I support.
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