The second story I read was, “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” by Joyce Carol Oates. The story is about fifteen year old Connie who is the sort of the trouble child of the family. Connie likes to go to the drive in restaurant where the “big kids” hang out, and while there she meets a charming young man in a bright gold jalopy (An older car). Fast-forward the story to a couple of days later; Connie is alone at home while the rest of her family is at a barbeque. While listening to the radio, Connie hears a car in her driveway and soon discovers that the car is a bright gold jalopy. Connie feels butterflies while opening her screen door to find the charming man from the restaurant sitting outside of his gold jalopy. The man then tries to convince Connie to go for a ride with him and his friend who is sitting in the passenger seat. While he is attempting to convince Connie to come with him, he reveals unnerving knowledge about Connie such as; where her family is, how long they will be gone, what they are doing at that very second, and who her friends are. The man reveals is name to be Arnold Friend while trying to calm a cautious Connie. Eventually Arnold reveals that he wants Connie to be his “lover” and that he wants her terribly. Things elevate when Connie attempts to call the police, yet fails when Arnold stops her. He then threatens to hurt her family is she yet again refuses to “take a ride with him.” The story ends with Connie in the car with Arnold and his friend riding off into unknown land. I personally enjoyed this story more simply because I was able to identify a story line and I felt a great amount of pity for poor Connie as she was so suddenly robbed of her childhood at the ripe age of fifteen.
My second story was Nathanael Hawthorns “The Birth Mark”. After reading the first several paragraphs I was under the impression that the author who is in the third person wasted to many flowery words in getting his point across. I was getting a little discourage until the midway when the plot started to get my attention. It seemed regular story and I was trying to figure out when the “monster” portion would fit in. It is a story that takes place in the 18th century about a young promising scientist named Aylmer who takes time out of his passions to get married to a beautiful bride named Georgiana. They both deeply love each other, but Georgiana has a small birthmark on her cheek in the shape of a small hand. Men think the birthmark is cute on her and adds to her beauty. Women are jealous because she is so pretty they try to put her down as only women can do. Aylmer is so egotistical that he thinks he can fix anything with his scientific knowledge. He starts to focused only on Georgiana’s birthmark that it consumes him and she realizes that it is starting to bother him. He tells her he could remove it and she would perfect. She loves him so much and wants to make him happy so she offers herself as a guinea pig. When they arrive at his laboratory it is something out of Frankenstein movie. His assistant Aminadab is a “Quasimoto” type of looking character who takes one look at her birthmark and says, “if she was my wife, I wouldn’t touch it”, giving us a foreshadowing of things to come. Through much fanfare Aylmer finally devises a potion to remove the birthmark. It ultimately works but his wife dies in the process .
My second story I chose was “A good man is hard to find” by Flannery O’Conner. This story tells of a grandma that lives with her son and his family. They are all about to go on a vacation to Florida even though the grandma is trying her best to detour them to Tennessee instead. She reads that a convict named “The Misfit” has escaped prison and is believed to be headed to Florida. Despite her best efforts to persuade her son Bailey and his wife they were going to Florida. The next morning Bailey, his wife, their son John Wesley, daughter June Star, and their infant son loaded up in the car. However the family didn’t know that grandma had snuck her cat into the car too. They started their trip with a little conversation and ended up at a place called The Towers ran by Red Sammy. –This is the part of the story where I thought they would encounter The Misfit- However, grandma and Sammy had a small talk about him being a good man, and then the family went on their way. Grandma went on storytelling about a house in Georgia that she remembered very fondly that had a secret panel; the kids were very excited and wanted their dad to detour from their route so they could see the secret panel. After the kids throwing a fit, the dad agreed. Grandma told him where the road was and they turned down it. About the same time that Grandma realized she had embarrassedly remembered where they house was, it was in fact in Tennessee not Georgia (where they were) the cat that she had snuck in the car jumped out and onto her son who was driving. The car flipped and settled in an embankment of sorts, the family was injured but alive. The next car that came down stopped to help. They thought that they were being rescued by the three men in the car. Grandma couldn’t help but notice that one of the men looked very familiar. She realized it was The Misfit and vocalized her realization. Despite grandma’s best efforts to convince The Misfit that he was a good man, the two men took her family into the woods a few at a time and shot them. Then The Misfit shot grandma three times. The men then dumped the dead family somewhere in the woods. One man said that the experience was fun but The Misfit said “it’s no real pleasure in life”. In my opinion this story had the chance to be a good novel, I feel almost cheated of further details that would have made the story more elaborate and overall better.
My second story I choose was “The very old man with enormous wings.” This short story was very odd to me. The story is about a rainstorm that drives crabs into a family’s house. They take the crabs and put them back into the se died. When they return there is an old man in their backyard. They try to communicate with the man but they cannot understand him, his wings were being held down by mud. Their neighbor claims it is an angel sent to help their sick child that they have, they do not want to kill the man, so they lock him in a chicken coop. The rain eventually stops and their child loses his fever. The couple goes to check on the man and most of the neighborhood was gathered around to see the “angel. A priest then tries to speck to him but the old man cannot understand Latin either, so he assumes that this old man is trying to be an imitation of an angel. More and more people bombard their house that the crowd had to get controlled before damages to their house is done. The couple charges the people to be able to see the angel. As time goes by the “angel” starts to regain his strength, then one day he flies off into the horizon as Elisenda (the wife) watches.
The second story that captured my attention was “A Good Man is Hard to Find” by Flanner O’Connor. The story is about a family from Tennessee that wants to go for a vacation to Florida. The main character in this story is the Grandmother. She had a God feeling about the trip and wanted to change her son’s mind and son’s wife not to go to Florida since out there was a criminal that had recently escaped from prison and was heating to Florida as well. The family didn’t listen to Grandmother’s advice and the very next day they start their journey where the Grandmother joins them. Grandmother was worried for her cat to stay alone in the house and had hidden the cat in the car in one of her basket so nobody could see it. While driving trough Georgia, they made a stop at the Red Sam to eat and after they were driving to Florida. Grandmother remembers different stories of her life that she shares with the family, at one point she remembers a house that had a secret panel and she thought that was right by the road that they were driving. The children and wife insisted to turn around and see the house. After fighting with the driver (the son) that didn’t want to see the house, he decided to turn back, just to please everybody, and was driving on a dangerous road. The cat had escaped from the basket and the driver lost control of the car and an accident occurred. They were hurt but alive. Grandmother was embarrassed when she realized that the house with the secret panel was located in Tennessee and not Georgia, but she decided to keep it quietly due to the accident. Another car was passing by and saw the accident. There were three men in that car. The family thought that they were rescued, but the Grandmother recognizes that one of the men was the actual escaped prisoner. She still believes that the prisoner is a good man, and she was wrong. They had killed the entire family with no mercy. The Grandmother was shot three times by the prisoner that she had feared the most for the last few days of her life.
The second story I chose was entitled,"Where Are You Going,Where Have You Been," written by Joyce Carol Oates.The story introduces a fifteenn year old girl girl named Connie.Connie's mother is always ragging on her about everything.She is constantly being compared to her older sister June,who is apparently the ideal child.The one similarity that she has with June is that her parents let her go out with her friends.The father of one of her friends drives them to the local shopping center where they can either shop or go to a movie.While sometimes they do actually shop or go to a movie, the girls often sneak across the street to a local drive-in restraunt where the "older" kids always hung out.After meeting boy named eddie that she presiously knew, he invited her to his car where they could order some food.While on the way to get said food, she has an visual and vocal encounter with a young man in a unfortgettable gold jalopy.One day while her entire family decides to go to a barbeque,Connie decides to stay at home.She proceeds to listen to music and daydream of all the boys she had met.In her daze, she hears the sound of a vehicle approaching up her driveway.To her suprise it is the young man in the gold jalopy.The man, who introduces himself as :Arnold Friend" does everything in his power to convince connie to go for a ride in his car.His begins to disclose information about her family's whereabouts and details about the barbeque that her family is at.He continues to try and swoon her into coming with him,but Connies still refuses.He begins to enter into the house, but when she trys to call for her she freezes.Arnold tells her that if she does not cooperate that she is going to get hurt. The story concludes with Connie following him to the vehicle where she begins to feel a complete lack of control for her behaviors and finally gives into Arnold's persuasion.
The second story I read was “The Thing in the Forest” by A. S. Byatt. Two girls, Penny and Primrose, leave their homes and families to be safe from the war at home. They meet each other on the train and don’t know where they’re going or who they will end up with. They become friends and bunk with each other for the first night in the shelter. While they were together they went exploring in the forest and came across a huge smelly monstrous thing. Petrified, they went back to the shelter and didn’t tell anyone what happened in the forest. When the war was over, they were safe to go back home. Over time the two girls grew up to be women. They changed physically and mentally. They reunited at the country house and saw that the monster they saw in the woods has become an old tale and it was known to follow kids. The two ladies started the story.
This strory starts with someone who is describing a terryfing dream. Seven witchdoctors were coming at him with fingers pointed at his face. He started to his soul being taken and death was imminent. This man’s name was Ben Chadiza and while all this was happening Ben’s Wife was screaming at him to wake up. Ben was having a nightmare, which he had never experienced before. His wife thought that he needed to go see a doctor, but Ben let the whole event fade away. His wife finally demanded that they go see a witchdoctor so they did. The witchdoctor seemed to be able to control Maria and Ben’s emotions and put fear into their minds. After a few encounters Ben’s wife Maria had with the doctor Ben became furious and went to confront the witch doctor. His plan quickly turned on him and was the one who was yelled at and had more evil put in his mind. The witchdoctor had died and five years had passed with Ben and Maria, but Ben had another nightmare suddenly occur. Before the doctor had died, he shared a secret with Maria that she was his granddaughter and they would die in a fire if they continued to live in the village. The Doctor had cast a spell on Maria that she couldn't tell Ben and it became too late as the both were killed in a house fire. The witchdoctor put this couple through so much evil because Maria was his granddaughter who had betrayed him a long time ago because of his powers.
My second story I chose is "A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. This story starts with a couple, Pelayo and Elisenda, and their sick child. Their is a terrible storm that is flooding their home with crabs. While Pelayo is dumping crabs back in to the sea, he sees a man laying facedown outside of his home. He can not get up because he has wings that are stuck in mud and debris. A neighbor believes he is an angel, sent to claim his child, and they lock him in their chicken coop. After the storm passes, the child has been miraculously cured and they begin to charge people to see the angel. A local priest comes and deems him an impostor because of his inability to understand Latin. After thousands of people come to see the angel, Peloya and his wife have a large fortune that they spend on themselves, and are constantly annoyed by the presence of the old angel. At the end, the old man flies into the air with only Elisenda as a witness, and leaves the couple.
The second story I ended up choosing was “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been” was written by Joyce Carol Oats. She was born and raised in Lock Port, New York. The story was about a teenage girl named Connie, who grew up only caring for her and whose mother knew everyone and everything about them. The other character name Arnold Friend was a stalker and knew everything about Connie and was trying to persuade her to come to out of the house, so that he could take her. Yet Arnold Friend ended up scaring Connie so bad that she thought she would never see tomorrow.
The second story I chose to read caught me by the title. “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? By Joyce Carol Oates. It starts with a fifteen year old girl named Connie she is with her mother and her mother knew everything about everyone. A man named Arnold Friend was soon to become Connie’s new stalker. He would come to her house and torment her with words. She was so scared, she had threatened to call the police, and once even tried to but couldn’t find the strength to dial the number. Arnold tried very hard to get Connie to leave her house and come with him. He even threatened to hurt her “peoples”. One day Connie broke, and unwillingly went with him not knowing of what would happen next.
The second story that I ended up reading was “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings: A Tale for Children” by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. The story takes place at a house near the beach. One day, the third day, they had killed so many crabs inside the house that Pelayo had to cross the courtyard and throw them into the ocean. Pelayo returns to see an old man, lying face down in the mud and couldn’t get up. Pelayo tried to talk to the very old man but the old man couldn’t understand. The old man’s wings were stuck in the mud. Their neighbor assumes that it was an angel that was sent to help their sick newborn child that was sick because of the smell of all the crabs. They don’t want to kill the old man so they put him in a chicken coop until the rain goes away. The rain stops and the whole neighborhood is waiting around to see the angel. Many more people are starting to arrive to see and they had to have the crowd of people controlled before something bad happens to their house and or family. The old man slowly starts to gain it’s strength back almost like a butterfly after its wings have been wet, and the old man escapes and flies off in the distance as the wife of the family watches.
The second story I chose was "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been" written by Joyce Carol Oates. This short story is about a young fifth teen year old girl named Connie. Connie is a vibrant, energized teenager. Connie was full of life but was always being brought down by her mother when she would compare her to her sister June. Connie’s father drives her and her friends to a shopping mall as he does just about every weekend. The girl rarely shop, they spend most of their time a crossed the street at a drive in restaurant. She makes eye contact with a handsome hunk in a gold jalopy and from then on she day dreams about the mystery boy. One day Connie’s family decides to go out but she wasn’t in the mood to spend time with her family so she stays home alone. Soon after they leave the mystery boy pulls up and tries his hardest to convince her to go on a long ride with him. Connie caves and gets in the car. He gives Connie no choice but to be he forever lover or there would be consequences.
The Second story I read was Nathaniel Hawthorne's the birthmark Aylmer a late 18th-century scientist to who has committed his entire life to his works. However, he puts down his test tubes long enough to marry Geourgiana. A beautiful woman who has a distinctive red birthmark in the shape of a hand, on the side of her cheek. Most men found the mark attractive. Georgianna liked it until one day Aylmer says he doesn't like it. Now she see's herself as ugly and hearing of Aylmers dream she wants the birthmark removed. Georgianna is taken into Aylmers lab to wait on Aminadab and Aylmer to devise an elixir to remove her birthmark. After drinking the elixir she falls asleep and the birthmark faded. Aminadab laughs cryptically. She awakes and tells them she's dying. She does die. Aminadab laughs again. Georgiana couldn't live as a perfect being since humans are imperfect.
My secondary story that I chose is called “The thing in the woods”. I expected from the title that some weird creature would be roaming the woods and I was correct in that section but I could not expect the oddness of this creature as it was described in the story. The first part of the story was exactly like “The Chronicles of Narnia”. Kids were being sent away from their families by train to keep safe from the war. They then went to foster homes while it was going on. The story is centered on two young girls in particular named Primrose and Penny. They are curious about the forest outside their house so they investigate but run into the thing that lives in the woods. They soon went home and grew up over time. They both went back to the house they stayed at as children and started telling the tale of a monster that shadows children as they wander the woods.
My second story is "A Good Man Is Hard to Find". It is not at all anything like I expected. It is a chilling story of a nice old grandmother and her family's trip to Florida. They have a car accident and an escaped convict stops to help them, or so they think. The convict and the two boys traveling with him shoot the entire family in cold blood. It was a horrifying story that I did not enjoy reading whatsoever.
I chose "The Birthmark" by Nathaniel Hawthorne. The story was very heartbreaking, because it showed that vanity to her husband was more important than his love for her or hers for him. He ultimately knew inside what the end result could be, and chose to do it anyway. She loved him enough to risk her life, but it wasn't enough for the crazy man to realize what he was going to lose.
The second story I read was, “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” by Joyce Carol Oates. The story is about fifteen year old Connie who is the sort of the trouble child of the family. Connie likes to go to the drive in restaurant where the “big kids” hang out, and while there she meets a charming young man in a bright gold jalopy (An older car). Fast-forward the story to a couple of days later; Connie is alone at home while the rest of her family is at a barbeque. While listening to the radio, Connie hears a car in her driveway and soon discovers that the car is a bright gold jalopy. Connie feels butterflies while opening her screen door to find the charming man from the restaurant sitting outside of his gold jalopy. The man then tries to convince Connie to go for a ride with him and his friend who is sitting in the passenger seat. While he is attempting to convince Connie to come with him, he reveals unnerving knowledge about Connie such as; where her family is, how long they will be gone, what they are doing at that very second, and who her friends are. The man reveals is name to be Arnold Friend while trying to calm a cautious Connie. Eventually Arnold reveals that he wants Connie to be his “lover” and that he wants her terribly. Things elevate when Connie attempts to call the police, yet fails when Arnold stops her. He then threatens to hurt her family is she yet again refuses to “take a ride with him.” The story ends with Connie in the car with Arnold and his friend riding off into unknown land. I personally enjoyed this story more simply because I was able to identify a story line and I felt a great amount of pity for poor Connie as she was so suddenly robbed of her childhood at the ripe age of fifteen.
ReplyDeleteMy second story was Nathanael Hawthorns “The Birth Mark”. After reading the first several paragraphs I was under the impression that the author who is in the third person wasted to many flowery words in getting his point across. I was getting a little discourage until the midway when the plot started to get my attention. It seemed regular story and I was trying to figure out when the “monster” portion would fit in.
ReplyDeleteIt is a story that takes place in the 18th century about a young promising scientist named Aylmer who takes time out of his passions to get married to a beautiful bride named Georgiana. They both deeply love each other, but Georgiana has a small birthmark on her cheek in the shape of a small hand. Men think the birthmark is cute on her and adds to her beauty. Women are jealous because she is so pretty they try to put her down as only women can do. Aylmer is so egotistical that he thinks he can fix anything with his scientific knowledge. He starts to focused only on Georgiana’s birthmark that it consumes him and she realizes that it is starting to bother him.
He tells her he could remove it and she would perfect. She loves him so much and wants to make him happy so she offers herself as a guinea pig. When they arrive at his laboratory it is something out of Frankenstein movie. His assistant Aminadab is a “Quasimoto” type of looking character who takes one look at her birthmark and says, “if she was my wife, I wouldn’t touch it”, giving us a foreshadowing of things to come.
Through much fanfare Aylmer finally devises a potion to remove the birthmark. It ultimately works but his wife dies in the process .
My second story I chose was “A good man is hard to find” by Flannery O’Conner. This story tells of a grandma that lives with her son and his family. They are all about to go on a vacation to Florida even though the grandma is trying her best to detour them to Tennessee instead. She reads that a convict named “The Misfit” has escaped prison and is believed to be headed to Florida. Despite her best efforts to persuade her son Bailey and his wife they were going to Florida. The next morning Bailey, his wife, their son John Wesley, daughter June Star, and their infant son loaded up in the car. However the family didn’t know that grandma had snuck her cat into the car too. They started their trip with a little conversation and ended up at a place called The Towers ran by Red Sammy. –This is the part of the story where I thought they would encounter The Misfit- However, grandma and Sammy had a small talk about him being a good man, and then the family went on their way. Grandma went on storytelling about a house in Georgia that she remembered very fondly that had a secret panel; the kids were very excited and wanted their dad to detour from their route so they could see the secret panel. After the kids throwing a fit, the dad agreed. Grandma told him where the road was and they turned down it. About the same time that Grandma realized she had embarrassedly remembered where they house was, it was in fact in Tennessee not Georgia (where they were) the cat that she had snuck in the car jumped out and onto her son who was driving. The car flipped and settled in an embankment of sorts, the family was injured but alive. The next car that came down stopped to help. They thought that they were being rescued by the three men in the car. Grandma couldn’t help but notice that one of the men looked very familiar. She realized it was The Misfit and vocalized her realization. Despite grandma’s best efforts to convince The Misfit that he was a good man, the two men took her family into the woods a few at a time and shot them. Then The Misfit shot grandma three times. The men then dumped the dead family somewhere in the woods. One man said that the experience was fun but The Misfit said “it’s no real pleasure in life”. In my opinion this story had the chance to be a good novel, I feel almost cheated of further details that would have made the story more elaborate and overall better.
ReplyDeleteMy second story I choose was “The very old man with enormous wings.” This short story was very odd to me. The story is about a rainstorm that drives crabs into a family’s house. They take the crabs and put them back into the se died. When they return there is an old man in their backyard. They try to communicate with the man but they cannot understand him, his wings were being held down by mud. Their neighbor claims it is an angel sent to help their sick child that they have, they do not want to kill the man, so they lock him in a chicken coop. The rain eventually stops and their child loses his fever. The couple goes to check on the man and most of the neighborhood was gathered around to see the “angel. A priest then tries to speck to him but the old man cannot understand Latin either, so he assumes that this old man is trying to be an imitation of an angel. More and more people bombard their house that the crowd had to get controlled before damages to their house is done. The couple charges the people to be able to see the angel. As time goes by the “angel” starts to regain his strength, then one day he flies off into the horizon as Elisenda (the wife) watches.
ReplyDeleteThe second story that captured my attention was “A Good Man is Hard to Find” by Flanner O’Connor. The story is about a family from Tennessee that wants to go for a vacation to Florida. The main character in this story is the Grandmother. She had a God feeling about the trip and wanted to change her son’s mind and son’s wife not to go to Florida since out there was a criminal that had recently escaped from prison and was heating to Florida as well. The family didn’t listen to Grandmother’s advice and the very next day they start their journey where the Grandmother joins them. Grandmother was worried for her cat to stay alone in the house and had hidden the cat in the car in one of her basket so nobody could see it. While driving trough Georgia, they made a stop at the Red Sam to eat and after they were driving to Florida. Grandmother remembers different stories of her life that she shares with the family, at one point she remembers a house that had a secret panel and she thought that was right by the road that they were driving. The children and wife insisted to turn around and see the house. After fighting with the driver (the son) that didn’t want to see the house, he decided to turn back, just to please everybody, and was driving on a dangerous road. The cat had escaped from the basket and the driver lost control of the car and an accident occurred. They were hurt but alive. Grandmother was embarrassed when she realized that the house with the secret panel was located in Tennessee and not Georgia, but she decided to keep it quietly due to the accident. Another car was passing by and saw the accident. There were three men in that car. The family thought that they were rescued, but the Grandmother recognizes that one of the men was the actual escaped prisoner. She still believes that the prisoner is a good man, and she was wrong. They had killed the entire family with no mercy. The Grandmother was shot three times by the prisoner that she had feared the most for the last few days of her life.
ReplyDeleteThe second story I chose was entitled,"Where Are You Going,Where Have You Been," written by Joyce Carol Oates.The story introduces a fifteenn year old girl girl named Connie.Connie's mother is always ragging on her about everything.She is constantly being compared to her older sister June,who is apparently the ideal child.The one similarity that she has with June is that her parents let her go out with her friends.The father of one of her friends drives them to the local shopping center where they can either shop or go to a movie.While sometimes they do actually shop or go to a movie, the girls often sneak across the street to a local drive-in restraunt where the "older" kids always hung out.After meeting boy named eddie that she presiously knew, he invited her to his car where they could order some food.While on the way to get said food, she has an visual and vocal encounter with a young man in a unfortgettable gold jalopy.One day while her entire family decides to go to a barbeque,Connie decides to stay at home.She proceeds to listen to music and daydream of all the boys she had met.In her daze, she hears the sound of a vehicle approaching up her driveway.To her suprise it is the young man in the gold jalopy.The man, who introduces himself as :Arnold Friend" does everything in his power to convince connie to go for a ride in his car.His begins to disclose information about her family's whereabouts and details about the barbeque that her family is at.He continues to try and swoon her into coming with him,but Connies still refuses.He begins to enter into the house, but when she trys to call for her she freezes.Arnold tells her that if she does not cooperate that she is going to get hurt. The story concludes with Connie following him to the vehicle where she begins to feel a complete lack of control for her behaviors and finally gives into Arnold's persuasion.
ReplyDeleteThe second story I read was “The Thing in the Forest” by A. S. Byatt. Two girls, Penny and Primrose, leave their homes and families to be safe from the war at home. They meet each other on the train and don’t know where they’re going or who they will end up with. They become friends and bunk with each other for the first night in the shelter. While they were together they went exploring in the forest and came across a huge smelly monstrous thing. Petrified, they went back to the shelter and didn’t tell anyone what happened in the forest. When the war was over, they were safe to go back home. Over time the two girls grew up to be women. They changed physically and mentally. They reunited at the country house and saw that the monster they saw in the woods has become an old tale and it was known to follow kids. The two ladies started the story.
ReplyDeleteThis strory starts with someone who is describing a terryfing dream. Seven witchdoctors were coming at him with fingers pointed at his face. He started to his soul being taken and death was imminent. This man’s name was Ben Chadiza and while all this was happening Ben’s Wife was screaming at him to wake up. Ben was having a nightmare, which he had never experienced before. His wife thought that he needed to go see a doctor, but Ben let the whole event fade away. His wife finally demanded that they go see a witchdoctor so they did. The witchdoctor seemed to be able to control Maria and Ben’s emotions and put fear into their minds. After a few encounters Ben’s wife Maria had with the doctor Ben became furious and went to confront the witch doctor. His plan quickly turned on him and was the one who was yelled at and had more evil put in his mind. The witchdoctor had died and five years had passed with Ben and Maria, but Ben had another nightmare suddenly occur. Before the doctor had died, he shared a secret with Maria that she was his granddaughter and they would die in a fire if they continued to live in the village. The Doctor had cast a spell on Maria that she couldn't tell Ben and it became too late as the both were killed in a house fire. The witchdoctor put this couple through so much evil because Maria was his granddaughter who had betrayed him a long time ago because of his powers.
ReplyDeleteMy second story I chose is "A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. This story starts with a couple, Pelayo and Elisenda, and their sick child. Their is a terrible storm that is flooding their home with crabs. While Pelayo is dumping crabs back in to the sea, he sees a man laying facedown outside of his home. He can not get up because he has wings that are stuck in mud and debris. A neighbor believes he is an angel, sent to claim his child, and they lock him in their chicken coop. After the storm passes, the child has been miraculously cured and they begin to charge people to see the angel. A local priest comes and deems him an impostor because of his inability to understand Latin. After thousands of people come to see the angel, Peloya and his wife have a large fortune that they spend on themselves, and are constantly annoyed by the presence of the old angel. At the end, the old man flies into the air with only Elisenda as a witness, and leaves the couple.
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ReplyDeleteThe second story I ended up choosing was “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been” was written by Joyce Carol Oats. She was born and raised in Lock Port, New York. The story was about a teenage girl named Connie, who grew up only caring for her and whose mother knew everyone and everything about them. The other character name Arnold Friend was a stalker and knew everything about Connie and was trying to persuade her to come to out of the house, so that he could take her. Yet Arnold Friend ended up scaring Connie so bad that she thought she would never see tomorrow.
The second story I chose to read caught me by the title. “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? By Joyce Carol Oates. It starts with a fifteen year old girl named Connie she is with her mother and her mother knew everything about everyone. A man named Arnold Friend was soon to become Connie’s new stalker. He would come to her house and torment her with words. She was so scared, she had threatened to call the police, and once even tried to but couldn’t find the strength to dial the number. Arnold tried very hard to get Connie to leave her house and come with him. He even threatened to hurt her “peoples”. One day Connie broke, and unwillingly went with him not knowing of what would happen next.
ReplyDeleteThe second story that I ended up reading was “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings: A Tale for Children” by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. The story takes place at a house near the beach. One day, the third day, they had killed so many crabs inside the house that Pelayo had to cross the courtyard and throw them into the ocean. Pelayo returns to see an old man, lying face down in the mud and couldn’t get up. Pelayo tried to talk to the very old man but the old man couldn’t understand. The old man’s wings were stuck in the mud. Their neighbor assumes that it was an angel that was sent to help their sick newborn child that was sick because of the smell of all the crabs. They don’t want to kill the old man so they put him in a chicken coop until the rain goes away. The rain stops and the whole neighborhood is waiting around to see the angel. Many more people are starting to arrive to see and they had to have the crowd of people controlled before something bad happens to their house and or family. The old man slowly starts to gain it’s strength back almost like a butterfly after its wings have been wet, and the old man escapes and flies off in the distance as the wife of the family watches.
ReplyDeleteThe second story I chose was "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been" written by Joyce Carol Oates. This short story is about a young fifth teen year old girl named Connie. Connie is a vibrant, energized teenager. Connie was full of life but was always being brought down by her mother when she would compare her to her sister June. Connie’s father drives her and her friends to a shopping mall as he does just about every weekend. The girl rarely shop, they spend most of their time a crossed the street at a drive in restaurant. She makes eye contact with a handsome hunk in a gold jalopy and from then on she day dreams about the mystery boy. One day Connie’s family decides to go out but she wasn’t in the mood to spend time with her family so she stays home alone. Soon after they leave the mystery boy pulls up and tries his hardest to convince her to go on a long ride with him. Connie caves and gets in the car. He gives Connie no choice but to be he forever lover or there would be consequences.
ReplyDeleteThe Second story I read was Nathaniel Hawthorne's the birthmark Aylmer a late 18th-century scientist to who has committed his entire life to his works. However, he puts down his test tubes long enough to marry Geourgiana. A beautiful woman who has a distinctive red birthmark in the shape of a hand, on the side of her cheek. Most men found the mark attractive. Georgianna liked it until one day Aylmer says he doesn't like it. Now she see's herself as ugly and hearing of Aylmers dream she wants the birthmark removed. Georgianna is taken into Aylmers lab to wait on Aminadab and Aylmer to devise an elixir to remove her birthmark. After drinking the elixir she falls asleep and the birthmark faded. Aminadab laughs cryptically. She awakes and tells them she's dying. She does die. Aminadab laughs again. Georgiana couldn't live as a perfect being since humans are imperfect.
ReplyDeleteMy secondary story that I chose is called “The thing in the woods”. I expected from the title that some weird creature would be roaming the woods and I was correct in that section but I could not expect the oddness of this creature as it was described in the story. The first part of the story was exactly like “The Chronicles of Narnia”. Kids were being sent away from their families by train to keep safe from the war. They then went to foster homes while it was going on. The story is centered on two young girls in particular named Primrose and Penny. They are curious about the forest outside their house so they investigate but run into the thing that lives in the woods. They soon went home and grew up over time. They both went back to the house they stayed at as children and started telling the tale of a monster that shadows children as they wander the woods.
ReplyDeleteMy second story is "A Good Man Is Hard to Find". It is not at all anything like I expected. It is a chilling story of a nice old grandmother and her family's trip to Florida. They have a car accident and an escaped convict stops to help them, or so they think. The convict and the two boys traveling with him shoot the entire family in cold blood. It was a horrifying story that I did not enjoy reading whatsoever.
ReplyDeleteI chose "The Birthmark" by Nathaniel Hawthorne. The story was very heartbreaking, because it showed that vanity to her husband was more important than his love for her or hers for him. He ultimately knew inside what the end result could be, and chose to do it anyway. She loved him enough to risk her life, but it wasn't enough for the crazy man to realize what he was going to lose.
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