Metacognition: The Kite Runner Essay

In my essay, my main focus was on a somewhat overlooked character. There are pages and pages about Hassan, Amir, Baba, and even Sohrab, but very little about Rahim Khan. Therefore, my method of thinking was to focus on the "little guy", the character who is not as important in quantity, but the most important in his qualities. The main effectiveness of this way of thinking is that it causes the reader of the essay to have a minor "A-ha!" moment when they realize that they knew all along about your claim or thought, they just didn't quite articulate it in their mind. It just hovered right below the surface.

I like the way I thought about the character in my essay, but if I could write a more involved essay and delve deeper into him, I would want to fabricate a history that explains why he acts the way he does. But that would have taken too many pages
and too much speculation and psychological analysis for the parameters of this essay.

I really like that my thinking focuses on someone deserving of focus, cheesy as that may sound. There's something self-rewarding to giving credit where credit's due; in this case, it was to the powerful support of the character Rahim Khan. He truly deserves to be admired for the actions he takes in the book, especially because I found Amir so unrelatable and frankly despicable. I mean, I'm aware of how cliche my idea can be, but I simply don't care that much. It was a point I wanted to make about a character I really liked. And that makes it worth writing about, in my opinion.