Should I memorise 3 essays or two for higher English

I’m currently doing higher English and have been told that every year a character or theme essay question will come up. I’m doing my critical essay on the kite runner, which works amazingly for key incident and I’ve managed to draft a good themes essay too. However I have never been taught how to do a character essay as the text I did in Nat 5 was a poem with only 2 characters that would be impossible to talk about. I’m wondering if you would recommend to also memorise a character essay or if just key incident and theme will suffice. Also if anyone knows how to write a character essay.

for me, my analysis is general enough and can be twisted to fit any essay - setting, theme, character, incident - but that is because i have a pretty good critical essay text. if you can, try to condense your setting/incident, and a separate character/theme one. the main thing is through linking; as long as you have detailed analysis, change your reference to question and evaluation to fit the theme/incident/character. as long as you do this, you should probably be fine - it is a lot of effort to memorise 3/4 essays but only do one.
p.s. out of curiosity - do you have a setting essay for the kite runner? the setting is pretty influential throughout 🙂

so if I’m doing a character essay would I just change the line ‘this shows Amir's guilt’ to something like ‘this shows how Amir is an interesting character’. No I don’t have a setting essay, I was told that it is very influential but my key incident and theme essays are pretty strong so I’m just going to memorise some good quotes for a setting essay. If worst comes to worst and I have no key incident or theme question I might attempt a setting essay in the exam but I hope it won’t come to that.