Wednesday, October 1, 2008

"The Hills Like White Elephants":

First off, I don't understand the symbolism of the title of the story, She described the bare hills in the distance that favored white elephants. I didn't see how that described the story, but maybe i should look more into that :). At first while reading this story i did not really understand what was going on exactly but then it dawned on me. I was pretty surprised that a situation like that occurred during those times. i was under the impression that those kinda things didn't happen really, ha ha. I wonder how did people respond to the author writing a story like this and was it necessarily excepted during those times and was it considered "Immodest". I believe in the end Jig Finally saw this man for who he really was.

" The Man in the Black Suit"

I really enjoyed reading this short story,I thought it was sorta similar to my very own short story i created, which was also inspired by "Young Goodman Brown" :).It was an easy read, and got right to the action. I thought it was so cool that Stephen King got this story from an actual event!, when reading I asked myself "what if this actually happened" to be funny, but it turned out so. The one thing that i wasent to sure of was that fact that if his father was aware the he had cross path's with the "Devil" or not, But i think i know the answer to that

Friday, September 19, 2008

A worn Path

I enjoyed reading "A Worn Path" although i didn't understand the theme . Its about an elderly African American woman i believe during the 1940's or so traveling a long journey through the wilderness to retrieve medication for her grandson who injured his throat by accidently drinking lye, along the way she meet a friendly young white male.. through the story she recived 10 cents that she later promised would go towards a paper windmil for her grandson. im guessing the charity she recived along the was was some sort of reward for enduring all that traveling for her grandson when in the end she had lost the reason why she traveled in the first place yet continued. Like i said im not really sure on what the theme and purpose of the story was but i still enjoyed it

Story Of an Hour

I loved!!!!! this story, at first it seemed like a very boring short story, but oh man was i wrong.We had discussed in class different literacy elements and Irony was definatly the most used in this story, it was about an un happily married woman that recived the news that her usband was killed in a fatal train accident, then later discovering that it was misunderstanding and that her husband was actually alive & well stood right before her. That being such a shock to her became the death of her, mainly because when she realized how happy her life could be minus him her dreams ended aburptly to see him actually alive, it was such a shock to her she instantly died of an heart attack

Young Goodman Brown

the story young goodman brown was about a young man's battle between good and evil. It had good usage of different literary elements like foreshadowing and a few others. It was quite confusing to read but it was overall a good short story, it had a really tricky twist.