11/06/13 Fiction Packet

When It Rains It Rains A River is a confusing story about these boys out in the rain. They love to play out in the rain, there's even this part that they eat the mud, which I find pretty disgusting. They begin to make Girls out of the mud. They describe how these girls make them want to stay on their knees as if to pray/give thanks to having girls made. When they say how the girls look at the boys and realize they are made from them, I think of the story of Adam and Eve and how Eve was made from the ribs of Adam. The boys show true love for the girls when they see the stars in their eyes and when they mention how what girls say is always right.

The Singing Fish is about the boys and their obsessions with the Girl again. The Girl's body turns into a cave where the boys go into and find paintings on the wall. These paintings are of fish that have arms and legs, which seems really confusing and weird. Then, the stick figure fish turn into words, which turn into the cave/Girl and then into the boys. The boys in turn place their hands upon the wall and start making these philosophical ideas of how everything is basically connected in some strange way.

The Falling Girl starts out with this girl looking out beyond her balcony and just falls over the railing. At first it seems to be some sort of suicidal attempt, but you find out it isn't later in the story. She falls into what seems to be this fancy illusion of life at first, where there is this beautiful music playing, guys appreciated her, everything was glorious around her, and she felt good about herself. This makes me think of the illusions Alice has while falling down the rabbit hole, she seems frightened at first, but then feels comfortable with everything going on around her. Some might think this falling for the women is some sort of mid-life crisis they go through, but why would they begin it at the age of 19? I believe she is just going through the phases of womanhood and she is simply missing some of the things going on around her because she is focusing so much on herself and not really living in the now.