10/9/13

In class, we discussed the fiction packet. One story that we went over was "Wallet." It was kind of confusing to know whether the guy actually stole the socks or not. Truthfully, I feel like he didn't, but that he drops just to bend over and pick them up while drawing attention to his wallet to be stolen again. He's trying to test pickpockets to fool them with his wallet, which consists of no valuables.

One of my favorites was "The Letter From Home." This story is separated into three paragraphs and is kind of told in the three stages of life: Young girl, Mother, Older woman. At the beginning it discusses things she did growing up and uses past tense. In the middle, she talks about having kids and she starts thinking more in depth ideas about life and death. Towards the end she encounters a man in a shroud that beckons her to come to him. This person I think of as Death telling her it is her time to go into the afterlife, but she avoids it like nothing happened.

In the second packet of fiction stories, "People in Hell Just Want a Drink of Water" reminded me a lot of "The Grapes of Wrath." It describes the difficulties people had to deal with in their lives, in the past. A woman suffered with her baby dying and having to throw it in the water. She also had to deal with her difficult children by tying them down. Ras comes home in some pretty bad shape, that he is all mutated in a way. Ras enjoys around the place on horses, but always gets into trouble by showing off his stuff to every girl in town. For this he was cut by a dirty knife and ended getting gangrene and dying from it.