Working on the Kite Runner Essay allowed me to open up upon myself. It provided insight as to how I think, more specifically how I construe and correlate things to one another, how effective I am in transferring my thoughts eloquently upon paper, and all in all my thought process or method in writing.

Writing this paper, I was especially conscious about the rhythm of my writing. The dynamics create a strong beat and creates a flow necessary to captivate any reader. I focused heavily on the rhythm of individual words, but more importantly the sentence structure as a whole. The dynamics of my thought had to come cleanly and smoothly to the mind of the reader. I attempted to captivate this thought process through the accent upon certain words, and the beat of a sentence. For example- to describe the culturally broken Afghanistan I created a litany of features that provided a "droning" feel to represent the drabness and sick modern Afghanistan. For this assignment, in particular, I really capitalized upon this technique and practice and enjoyed the changes I made to my overall writing. I was surprised at the flow it created and knowing that I consciously decided upon this word choice I grew to appreciate the multitude writers involved in a higher class of writing.

During this process of constructing the essay, I also focused on the contrast in thought that created an intelligent clash between these ideas. For example, I compared Amir's past to the present torn homeland to really bring out the cultural dynamic change. Using this technique, I really opened myself to the other areas of writing, and consciously recognized other writer's techniques within their work. I always subconsciously recognized the brilliance of these techniques but now truly appreciate them for what they are- the paper has opened me up to the greater view and technique within writing.

This paper has gone beyond the average sophomore writing assignment- as beyond a test of skill, it taught me so much and opened up my mind to a new realm of academia. I will make sure to focus on these skills, and practice them in papers to come. They create a brilliant underlying scheme for pieces of writing. I believe that I still have much to do in these categories, but this paper has launched this experience and thought process in the metacognition of writing.