My first story is The Thing in the Forest by A.S. Byatt. The story was about two young girls, Penny and Primrose, who were sent away on a train to the countryside to escape the bombings in London. They immediately became good friends and stayed close to one another. When they arrive at the great house in the country, they are allowed to go outside to play. The children are unsupervised so the two girls are drawn to the forest, having never seen a forest before. A younger girl named Alys tries to accompany them but they run away from her. The two girls have a very unusual experience while in the forest. They both see an ugly creature which looked like nothing they had ever seen before. Its face was rubbery and had a shapeless sprouting bulb of a head with blind opaque white eyes. It had a moist, tubular shaped body made of rank meat and decaying vegetation and it trailed remnants of man-made materials. They observed that when it met with a sharp stone or tree trunk, its body became sliced through but then would be rejoined. It resembled a giant worm, had a putrid stench, and as it slithered along, it left behind a trail of bloody slime. They never spoke about it after that and were sent to live with different families. Eventually they were reunited with their own families and grew up. As adults, they met by chance when they both visited the great house in the country which had become a tourist attraction. They believed that the little girl, Alys had been eaten by The Thing because she had disappeared the day she tried to follow them. They agreed to meet the next day for dinner but they were both drawn to the forest once again. Although they were in the forest at the same time, they did not see each other. Penny and Primrose met by chance in the train station after emerging from the forest and did not speak. They did not meet for dinner. Instead, Penny went one more time into the forest to confront The Thing. Primrose went back to her occupation of telling stories to children. She had never before spoken of The Thing but this time she began her storytelling with “There were once two little girls who saw, or believed they saw, a thing in a forest…..
The story that I read was, “The Thing in the Woods” by A.S. Byatt. From the title, I expected a sort of fascinating story about a strange creature, with the story mainly focused on the creature’s point of view. However, after reading the first paragraph I realize that my assumption of the story is not the case. The story is about two young evacuee girls during the war in England. The two befriend each other and instantly become friends. As the girls temporarily stay in a mansion, they venture out into the woods only to be terribly frightened by a horribly strange and dangerous creature that seems to consume everything in its path. The story then quickly speeds through each of the girls different lives, only to have the girls meet up again at the mansion many years later. The two, having been through the dramatic experience together, cannot seem to carry on a conversation with each other. And in the end, both ladies’ lives are changed by the risen memory of the monster. One of the ladies commits somewhat of a suicide by venturing back into the forest and allowing itself to be consumed by the monster, while the other being a storyteller shares the story with groups of children about the monster. I was a bit disappointed with this story and I didn’t seem to find much of a storyline and instead found the story to simply tell the lives of the girls without any sort of a climax.
My first story was Edgar Allen Poe’s “Cast of Amontillado”. Knowing a little about Poe’s writings I realized it would undoubtedly be eerie. It opens with the narrator, Montresor claiming he was insulted terribly by a man named Fortunado. Montersor goes on to plot his revenge by luring Fortunado into the catacombs with the promise of tasting a Spanish sherry called Amontillado. It is during the carnival season where there would be lots of revelers’ that would not be paying close attention to missing persons. It is hard to tell who is the protagonist and antagonist because both men seem rotten to the bone. The story continues as they walk further and further into the catacombs with Fortunado completely oblivious to his upcoming fate. Montresor several times offers to go back because the dampness is making Fortunado sick with a cough. But he is so full of pride and wants to try the sherry he’s promised and continues on. Montressor leads him to a small cavern at the end and tells him the wine is in there. Once he steps inside half drunk, Montessor shackles him so he can’t get away and then slowly walls him alive brick by brick as Fortunado begs to be released. At first he thinks it is a joke until finally he grasps his fate and remains silent.
I have read all the stories and the first one that captured my attention in fluffiness was “The Thing in The Forest” by A. S. Byatt. The story was about the two young girls, Penny who was older and tiny and Primrose who was younger and chunky, that were sent away from their families due to war conditions. The two girls became friends right away and they knew they were alone and had nobody but each other. They had arrived in a place together with other children were they share a place together. The next day the two girls went out to the mystery forest. In the way there they have met a little girl named Alys, who wanted to join them, but the two girls had run away from her. In the forest they saw a creature, they could not explain what exactly was but they knew it was scary and dangerous. They went back and did not talk about what they say. They were separated and later on got reunited with their families. Their life’s were opposite from each other but they had something in common, like losing their dad when they were young and after growing up losing their mother at the same time which explains why they decided to take vacation. They were reunited in that vacation which was a miracle. They have disclosed “The Thing” in the forest if they remember it, if that was real or just an imaginary thing they had in their minds. They had decided to met the very next day but neither of them went to dinner, both went to forest to see the creature. They have met unexpected at the train station after, neither of them talked to each other, and then Penny decides to go back to the forest which explains why from her background studying psychology. Primrose went back to tell her fairytale stories, but this time was different. Primrose’s stories starts different, like Once Upon A Time lived two girls who had seen something in the forest… .
The first story I chose was “Nightmare” by William Saidi. The story starts off describing a situation where seven witchdoctors come towards a man, one with an outstretched hand that ends up pointing straight at this man’s face, the man feels his soul leave his body and he realized he has died. The man tries so hard to reconnect with his body but he cannot, he can hear someone calling his name and then he wakes up to the realization that he had just experienced a nightmare. His name is Benjamin Cadiza and this was his first nightmare, ever. His wife Maria did not take the situation lightly and was more concerned about the nightmare than Benjamin was. The little town that they had recently moved to was home to a witchdoctor, a witchdoctor that did not care for their presence in the town; he was becoming second best to Benjamin and the success of the school that Benjamin was running. One night the witchdoctor came to visit Maria in the middle of the night and scared her immensely; outraged Benjamin went to visit the witchdoctor with all intent of scaring him. However, Benjamin is the one who left scared; the witchdoctor also told Benjamin that he was disowned by his daughter because of the powers he had inherited. Benjamin couldn’t figure out why the witchdoctor had mentioned that last bit of information to him. Five years after the witchdoctor died Benjamin started to have bad dreams again, Maria suggested they leave the village; Benjamin turned the offer down stating “they would remain there until they died.” Benjamin and his wife died in a house fire, the villagers helpless to save the couple. Unbeknownst to Benjamin, Maria was keeping a secret from him. She was the grand-daughter of the witchdoctor, her mother was the daughter that disowned the witchdoctor; and the witchdoctor was out for revenge and it just so happened that Benjamin and Maria would be his revenge.
The first story I choose was “The good man is hard to find.” The story is about a family planning a vacation, everyone wants to drive down to Florida but the grandmother wants to go to Tennessee. In order to persuade the family to want to go to Tennessee, she says there is a killer in Florida named “the misfit”, the family does not buy it and ends up going to Florida. Along the way there is stories told and games played like normal road trips, then they stop to eat at “Red Sammy’s.’ They have a conversation on how people are bad and “good men are hard to find”. As the trip progresses, the grandmother wants to go to a plantation in Georgia then remembers its in Tennessee, and gets angry. The cat she has with her attacks the driver and the car loses control and goes off the road. 3 people pull up and the grandmother recognizes one of them as “misfit’, she says and does everything she can to not get killed. The other 3 men kill the family and he grandmother to after she tries to religiously get out of it. She is the last one to die she makes “misfit” have insight on killing and how he thinks killing isn’t fun anymore.
The first story I chose was “Where are you going, where have you been” by Joyce Carol Oats. As I was reading, I was imagining the setting to be a little something like the movie Grease. Connie, the main character is a teenage girl that is vain. I wasn’t expecting the story to end the way it did. I was foreshadowing something completely different. All along Connie is a carefree teenager that only thinks of herself. Arnold Friend, the antagonist, has been stalking her and knew everything about her. He was persuading Connie to come out of the house. He thought Connie would come to him and not have a reason to not go on a ride with him. He started panicking and frightened her to the point where she knew she wouldn’t see her mother again.
After reading through all the available choices,I picked "A Good Man is Hard to Find" written by Flannery O'connor as my first story. After reading through the introduction, I wasn't really sure what to expect frrom the story.After diggin deeper, I learned that the story told of a grandmother who was living with her son and his family.The family had planned a vacation to Florida, but after the grandmtother reads about "the misfit:, a notorious bandit who escaped from the the federal penitentary, she trys to coax the family into changing their plans by heading to east tennesse instead, but the family doesn't go along with it.While travelling through Georgia they decide to stop in and eat lunch at a place called "Red Sammy's Famous Barbecue." The grandmother and red sammy proceed to talk about how it is hard to know who to trust and that good man are hard to find.After getting back on the road , the grandmother decides to take a "cat nap." When she awakes she reminisces of of a time in her younger days about specific house on a plantation(which she believes is close by to the location they were drving) where all the family's silver is hidden behind a secret panel.The kids of the family become enamored with the house and convince the rest of the family to go see the house. While on the dirt road that they beleive the house in on,the cat that the grandmother concealed becomes agitated and attacks her son who is driving the vehicle.The vehicle flips and they crash into a ditch on the side of the road.As a car approaches the location they flag it down to see if they can get some help.The car (which contained three men) came to their aide.The grandmother panics when she realizes that one of the men is "the misfit" she had been trying to warn everybody about.She tries to swoon him with religion and sweet talking , but the three men end up killing the whole family and burying them in the woods. It's ironic that even after all the efforts to try and avoid "the misfit" the family still ends up dying at his hand.
The first sory I read was, “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings.” When I saw the title I expected the story to be about someone like an underdog who had enormous goals, but no one believed in him and ended up successful. This story is about a husband and wife named Pelayo and Elisenda who lived a normal life until something strange appeared in their courtyard; a man with wings. Their Child had been very sick until the angel appeared and was miraculously cured. The neighborhood was skeptical of the man and told the local priest to come look at him. The priest thought he was an imposter because the man could not understand him. The neighborhood became so intrigued with this angel that Pelayo started to charge people to see him. They used this man with wings to inherit a great deal of wealth and build a mansion. The story goes on with doubters and believers, but one day Elisenda saw the man become strong enough to fly away into the sky like an angel.
The first story that I chose is, "The Thing in The Forest" by A.S. Byatt. I didnt have many expectations as to what the story would include when I first read the title. The story revolves around two girls, Penny and Primrose, who become friends as they are shipped to the countryside when Germany begins bombing their homes. The evacuees go in to the forest one day together, and see a 'monster' that scars them for the rest of their lives. Once they grow into women, their lives are spent without contact from each other, but are eerily parallel. They coincidentally find each other at the same house that they once met. After they talk, they go their own separate ways. They both return alone to the woods however. At the end of the story, Penny chooses her own fate by calling on "The Thing" while she is in the forest to come and kill her. Primrose ends the story by finally releasing the story by telling it as a fairytale to children. I really enjoyed the story.
The first story I chose to read was "A Good Man is Hard to Find" by Flannery O'Connor. This short story is about a family planning a vacation out of state. The family has decided that they would like to travel to Florida. The grandmother was the only person in the family not on board with the idea of going to Florida. She insists on going to Tennessee and thinking if she created something to frighten the family away from Florida she told them there was a suspected killer named "The Misfit". The family presses on and continues to go to Florida. Before arriving the stop to grab something to eat at a Red Sammy's. While eating they have a conversation about have people these days are bad a good man is hard to find. The trip continues on and the grandmother wants to go to a plantation she thinks is in Georgia then remembers it's in Tennessee, and gets livid with everyone and anything in her path. The cat she brought with her lashes out at the driver and he loses control of the car. Three people pull up and the grandmother realizes one of them is "Misfit". The three men end up killing the family while the grandmother pleads for her life. She is the last one "Misfit" kills because soon after her decides he doesn’t enjoy murdering anymore.
The first story I chose to read was “The Birth Mark” by Nathaniel Hawthorne. This story dates back to the 1800’s where a scientist has just married this beautiful mistress named Georgiana. They two were the perfect couple except for one major problem; she had a birth mark on her cheek. Being described as a “tent deeper crimson”, it was located on her left cheek and when she blushed you could hardly see it at all. They came to a conclusion to try and get it removed, he was determined to get this taken care of, and did. Until at the end, he finds out what he did actually killed her. I didn’t like this story because of the slight fact that this man was actually in love with this beautiful woman and let something as small as a birth mark to come in between the relationship in the first place.
The first story that I have chosen was “The Birth-Mark” written by a man named Nathaniel Hawthorn. Nathaniel was born in Salem, Massachusetts he had grown up during the 1800s and was known for his shirt stories during this time. The story “Birth Mark”, was about a middle age man named Aylmer was a scientist who ended up taking time and settling down with a woman name Georgiana. They ended up falling deeply in love with each other, but there was one thing Aylmer could not stand about his wife, her birthmark on her cheek. Aylmer would always bring up how much it truly disturbed him and wished something could be done about it. Yet everyone but Aylmer looks at his wife as a beautiful woman with no flaws. Aylmer has such a huge ego that he believes that he can fix anything with since so he performs an operation which ultimately ended up killing her.
The story that I first read was “The Nightmare” by William Saidi. This story reminded me of something that you would see becoming a scary movie for children that would be shown around Halloween. It starts out with seven “witchdoctors” that approach a man whose finger is becoming swollen and stretched out and points directly at his nose. Next thing you know the man has realized he has died and he is having an out of body experience. The man cries and cries hoping his soul will connect to his body again. The man keeps hearing someone yell his name, he suddenly wakes up to his wife who is telling him he was having a nightmare, his first nightmare that he has ever had as he is over the age of 50. His wife was extremely concerned about this nightmare that her husband had. She was so concerned that she thought they should move out of the village they lived in, but her husband disagreed. The man’s wife had more knowledge than she led on. She was a grand daughter of a witch that had went against a witchdoctor and she had realized that the same witchdoctor that her grandmother had angered was seeking revenge on Maria and her husband.
The first story I read was Poe's short story, "The Cask of Amotillado." Montresor, the narrator, speaks of being insulted by his acquaintance, Fortunato, and Montresor wishes to seek revenge. He doesn't want to put himself at risk while seeking revenge. Montresor decides to use Fortunatos love of wine against him. During the season of carnival Montresor approaches his acquaintance. Montresor tells Fortunato he had came into contact with something that could pass as amontillado. After Montresor suggested Fortunato didn't have to taste the wine he would have Luchesi do it, Fortunato is anxious about the wine tasting. They go to the vaults. Fortunato uses wine as cough syrup. After they reach the crypt, Fortunato enters the niche to retrieve the amontillado. Montresor chains his intoxicated friend to a stone and using his masonry skills rebuilds the wall trapping Fortunato forever to his death.
The story I chose to read was “Where are you going, Where have you been?” The title suggests that this is a type of traveling story as is seems someone went somewhere possibly in secret and does not want to share their experience. However, this is not the case instead it is about a young teen named Connie. She is a confident bad girl going through her rebellious phase of life. She went places she should not have been but her parents did not know because they would not call her out on it so it was more than easy to trick them to thinking she was an angel. Connie finds herself in a terrible situation one day when her family goes off to a BBQ and she is home alone. A man who she has seen before admits to stalking her and knowing everything there is to know about her. He threatens the one she loves making her come with him and her takes her away to do whatever his mind can come up with.
My first story was Where are you going , Where have you been? It told what seemed to be a young girl struggling with normal teenage emotions. As the story progressed, you could see there were much more troubling things going to happen. I was in suspense and very much enjoyed the plot. I was unclear as to if she died or exactly what happened.
My first story is The Thing in the Forest by A.S. Byatt. The story was about two young girls, Penny and Primrose, who were sent away on a train to the countryside to escape the bombings in London. They immediately became good friends and stayed close to one another. When they arrive at the great house in the country, they are allowed to go outside to play. The children are unsupervised so the two girls are drawn to the forest, having never seen a forest before. A younger girl named Alys tries to accompany them but they run away from her. The two girls have a very unusual experience while in the forest. They both see an ugly creature which looked like nothing they had ever seen before. Its face was rubbery and had a shapeless sprouting bulb of a head with blind opaque white eyes. It had a moist, tubular shaped body made of rank meat and decaying vegetation and it trailed remnants of man-made materials. They observed that when it met with a sharp stone or tree trunk, its body became sliced through but then would be rejoined. It resembled a giant worm, had a putrid stench, and as it slithered along, it left behind a trail of bloody slime.
ReplyDeleteThey never spoke about it after that and were sent to live with different families. Eventually they were reunited with their own families and grew up. As adults, they met by chance when they both visited the great house in the country which had become a tourist attraction. They believed that the little girl, Alys had been eaten by The Thing because she had disappeared the day she tried to follow them.
They agreed to meet the next day for dinner but they were both drawn to the forest once again. Although they were in the forest at the same time, they did not see each other. Penny and Primrose met by chance in the train station after emerging from the forest and did not speak. They did not meet for dinner. Instead, Penny went one more time into the forest to confront The Thing. Primrose went back to her occupation of telling stories to children. She had never before spoken of The Thing but this time she began her storytelling with “There were once two little girls who saw, or believed they saw, a thing in a forest…..
The story that I read was, “The Thing in the Woods” by A.S. Byatt. From the title, I expected a sort of fascinating story about a strange creature, with the story mainly focused on the creature’s point of view. However, after reading the first paragraph I realize that my assumption of the story is not the case. The story is about two young evacuee girls during the war in England. The two befriend each other and instantly become friends. As the girls temporarily stay in a mansion, they venture out into the woods only to be terribly frightened by a horribly strange and dangerous creature that seems to consume everything in its path. The story then quickly speeds through each of the girls different lives, only to have the girls meet up again at the mansion many years later. The two, having been through the dramatic experience together, cannot seem to carry on a conversation with each other. And in the end, both ladies’ lives are changed by the risen memory of the monster. One of the ladies commits somewhat of a suicide by venturing back into the forest and allowing itself to be consumed by the monster, while the other being a storyteller shares the story with groups of children about the monster. I was a bit disappointed with this story and I didn’t seem to find much of a storyline and instead found the story to simply tell the lives of the girls without any sort of a climax.
ReplyDeleteMy first story was Edgar Allen Poe’s “Cast of Amontillado”. Knowing a little about Poe’s writings I realized it would undoubtedly be eerie. It opens with the narrator, Montresor claiming he was insulted terribly by a man named Fortunado. Montersor goes on to plot his revenge by luring Fortunado into the catacombs with the promise of tasting a Spanish sherry called Amontillado. It is during the carnival season where there would be lots of revelers’ that would not be paying close attention to missing persons. It is hard to tell who is the protagonist and antagonist because both men seem rotten to the bone.
ReplyDeleteThe story continues as they walk further and further into the catacombs with Fortunado completely oblivious to his upcoming fate. Montresor several times offers to go back because the dampness is making Fortunado sick with a cough. But he is so full of pride and wants to try the sherry he’s promised and continues on. Montressor leads him to a small cavern at the end and tells him the wine is in there. Once he steps inside half drunk, Montessor shackles him so he can’t get away and then slowly walls him alive brick by brick as Fortunado begs to be released. At first he thinks it is a joke until finally he grasps his fate and remains silent.
I have read all the stories and the first one that captured my attention in fluffiness was “The Thing in The Forest” by A. S. Byatt. The story was about the two young girls, Penny who was older and tiny and Primrose who was younger and chunky, that were sent away from their families due to war conditions. The two girls became friends right away and they knew they were alone and had nobody but each other. They had arrived in a place together with other children were they share a place together. The next day the two girls went out to the mystery forest. In the way there they have met a little girl named Alys, who wanted to join them, but the two girls had run away from her. In the forest they saw a creature, they could not explain what exactly was but they knew it was scary and dangerous. They went back and did not talk about what they say. They were separated and later on got reunited with their families. Their life’s were opposite from each other but they had something in common, like losing their dad when they were young and after growing up losing their mother at the same time which explains why they decided to take vacation. They were reunited in that vacation which was a miracle. They have disclosed “The Thing” in the forest if they remember it, if that was real or just an imaginary thing they had in their minds. They had decided to met the very next day but neither of them went to dinner, both went to forest to see the creature. They have met unexpected at the train station after, neither of them talked to each other, and then Penny decides to go back to the forest which explains why from her background studying psychology. Primrose went back to tell her fairytale stories, but this time was different. Primrose’s stories starts different, like Once Upon A Time lived two girls who had seen something in the forest… .
ReplyDeleteThe first story I chose was “Nightmare” by William Saidi. The story starts off describing a situation where seven witchdoctors come towards a man, one with an outstretched hand that ends up pointing straight at this man’s face, the man feels his soul leave his body and he realized he has died. The man tries so hard to reconnect with his body but he cannot, he can hear someone calling his name and then he wakes up to the realization that he had just experienced a nightmare. His name is Benjamin Cadiza and this was his first nightmare, ever. His wife Maria did not take the situation lightly and was more concerned about the nightmare than Benjamin was. The little town that they had recently moved to was home to a witchdoctor, a witchdoctor that did not care for their presence in the town; he was becoming second best to Benjamin and the success of the school that Benjamin was running. One night the witchdoctor came to visit Maria in the middle of the night and scared her immensely; outraged Benjamin went to visit the witchdoctor with all intent of scaring him. However, Benjamin is the one who left scared; the witchdoctor also told Benjamin that he was disowned by his daughter because of the powers he had inherited. Benjamin couldn’t figure out why the witchdoctor had mentioned that last bit of information to him. Five years after the witchdoctor died Benjamin started to have bad dreams again, Maria suggested they leave the village; Benjamin turned the offer down stating “they would remain there until they died.” Benjamin and his wife died in a house fire, the villagers helpless to save the couple. Unbeknownst to Benjamin, Maria was keeping a secret from him. She was the grand-daughter of the witchdoctor, her mother was the daughter that disowned the witchdoctor; and the witchdoctor was out for revenge and it just so happened that Benjamin and Maria would be his revenge.
ReplyDeletewhat is the settings of the story?
DeleteThe first story I choose was “The good man is hard to find.” The story is about a family planning a vacation, everyone wants to drive down to Florida but the grandmother wants to go to Tennessee. In order to persuade the family to want to go to Tennessee, she says there is a killer in Florida named “the misfit”, the family does not buy it and ends up going to Florida. Along the way there is stories told and games played like normal road trips, then they stop to eat at “Red Sammy’s.’ They have a conversation on how people are bad and “good men are hard to find”. As the trip progresses, the grandmother wants to go to a plantation in Georgia then remembers its in Tennessee, and gets angry. The cat she has with her attacks the driver and the car loses control and goes off the road. 3 people pull up and the grandmother recognizes one of them as “misfit’, she says and does everything she can to not get killed. The other 3 men kill the family and he grandmother to after she tries to religiously get out of it. She is the last one to die she makes “misfit” have insight on killing and how he thinks killing isn’t fun anymore.
ReplyDeleteThe first story I chose was “Where are you going, where have you been” by Joyce Carol Oats. As I was reading, I was imagining the setting to be a little something like the movie Grease. Connie, the main character is a teenage girl that is vain. I wasn’t expecting the story to end the way it did. I was foreshadowing something completely different. All along Connie is a carefree teenager that only thinks of herself. Arnold Friend, the antagonist, has been stalking her and knew everything about her. He was persuading Connie to come out of the house. He thought Connie would come to him and not have a reason to not go on a ride with him. He started panicking and frightened her to the point where she knew she wouldn’t see her mother again.
ReplyDeleteAfter reading through all the available choices,I picked "A Good Man is Hard to Find" written by Flannery O'connor as my first story. After reading through the introduction, I wasn't really sure what to expect frrom the story.After diggin deeper, I learned that the story told of a grandmother who was living with her son and his family.The family had planned a vacation to Florida, but after the grandmtother reads about "the misfit:, a notorious bandit who escaped from the the federal penitentary, she trys to coax the family into changing their plans by heading to east tennesse instead, but the family doesn't go along with it.While travelling through Georgia they decide to stop in and eat lunch at a place called "Red Sammy's Famous Barbecue." The grandmother and red sammy proceed to talk about how it is hard to know who to trust and that good man are hard to find.After getting back on the road , the grandmother decides to take a "cat nap." When she awakes she reminisces of of a time in her younger days about specific house on a plantation(which she believes is close by to the location they were drving) where all the family's silver is hidden behind a secret panel.The kids of the family become enamored with the house and convince the rest of the family to go see the house. While on the dirt road that they beleive the house in on,the cat that the grandmother concealed becomes agitated and attacks her son who is driving the vehicle.The vehicle flips and they crash into a ditch on the side of the road.As a car approaches the location they flag it down to see if they can get some help.The car (which contained three men) came to their aide.The grandmother panics when she realizes that one of the men is "the misfit" she had been trying to warn everybody about.She tries to swoon him with religion and sweet talking , but the three men end up killing the whole family and burying them in the woods. It's ironic that even after all the efforts to try and avoid "the misfit" the family still ends up dying at his hand.
ReplyDeleteThe first sory I read was, “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings.” When I saw the title I expected the story to be about someone like an underdog who had enormous goals, but no one believed in him and ended up successful. This story is about a husband and wife named Pelayo and Elisenda who lived a normal life until something strange appeared in their courtyard; a man with wings. Their Child had been very sick until the angel appeared and was miraculously cured. The neighborhood was skeptical of the man and told the local priest to come look at him. The priest thought he was an imposter because the man could not understand him. The neighborhood became so intrigued with this angel that Pelayo started to charge people to see him. They used this man with wings to inherit a great deal of wealth and build a mansion. The story goes on with doubters and believers, but one day Elisenda saw the man become strong enough to fly away into the sky like an angel.
ReplyDeleteThe first story that I chose is, "The Thing in The Forest" by A.S. Byatt. I didnt have many expectations as to what the story would include when I first read the title. The story revolves around two girls, Penny and Primrose, who become friends as they are shipped to the countryside when Germany begins bombing their homes. The evacuees go in to the forest one day together, and see a 'monster' that scars them for the rest of their lives. Once they grow into women, their lives are spent without contact from each other, but are eerily parallel. They coincidentally find each other at the same house that they once met. After they talk, they go their own separate ways. They both return alone to the woods however. At the end of the story, Penny chooses her own fate by calling on "The Thing" while she is in the forest to come and kill her. Primrose ends the story by finally releasing the story by telling it as a fairytale to children. I really enjoyed the story.
ReplyDeleteThe first story I chose to read was "A Good Man is Hard to Find" by Flannery O'Connor. This short story is about a family planning a vacation out of state. The family has decided that they would like to travel to Florida. The grandmother was the only person in the family not on board with the idea of going to Florida. She insists on going to Tennessee and thinking if she created something to frighten the family away from Florida she told them there was a suspected killer named "The Misfit". The family presses on and continues to go to Florida. Before arriving the stop to grab something to eat at a Red Sammy's. While eating they have a conversation about have people these days are bad a good man is hard to find. The trip continues on and the grandmother wants to go to a plantation she thinks is in Georgia then remembers it's in Tennessee, and gets livid with everyone and anything in her path. The cat she brought with her lashes out at the driver and he loses control of the car. Three people pull up and the grandmother realizes one of them is "Misfit". The three men end up killing the family while the grandmother pleads for her life. She is the last one "Misfit" kills because soon after her decides he doesn’t enjoy murdering anymore.
ReplyDeleteThe first story I chose to read was “The Birth Mark” by Nathaniel Hawthorne. This story dates back to the 1800’s where a scientist has just married this beautiful mistress named Georgiana. They two were the perfect couple except for one major problem; she had a birth mark on her cheek. Being described as a “tent deeper crimson”, it was located on her left cheek and when she blushed you could hardly see it at all. They came to a conclusion to try and get it removed, he was determined to get this taken care of, and did. Until at the end, he finds out what he did actually killed her. I didn’t like this story because of the slight fact that this man was actually in love with this beautiful woman and let something as small as a birth mark to come in between the relationship in the first place.
ReplyDeleteThe first story that I have chosen was “The Birth-Mark” written by a man named Nathaniel Hawthorn. Nathaniel was born in Salem, Massachusetts he had grown up during the 1800s and was known for his shirt stories during this time. The story “Birth Mark”, was about a middle age man named Aylmer was a scientist who ended up taking time and settling down with a woman name Georgiana. They ended up falling deeply in love with each other, but there was one thing Aylmer could not stand about his wife, her birthmark on her cheek. Aylmer would always bring up how much it truly disturbed him and wished something could be done about it. Yet everyone but Aylmer looks at his wife as a beautiful woman with no flaws. Aylmer has such a huge ego that he believes that he can fix anything with since so he performs an operation which ultimately ended up killing her.
ReplyDeleteThe story that I first read was “The Nightmare” by William Saidi. This story reminded me of something that you would see becoming a scary movie for children that would be shown around Halloween. It starts out with seven “witchdoctors” that approach a man whose finger is becoming swollen and stretched out and points directly at his nose. Next thing you know the man has realized he has died and he is having an out of body experience. The man cries and cries hoping his soul will connect to his body again. The man keeps hearing someone yell his name, he suddenly wakes up to his wife who is telling him he was having a nightmare, his first nightmare that he has ever had as he is over the age of 50. His wife was extremely concerned about this nightmare that her husband had. She was so concerned that she thought they should move out of the village they lived in, but her husband disagreed. The man’s wife had more knowledge than she led on. She was a grand daughter of a witch that had went against a witchdoctor and she had realized that the same witchdoctor that her grandmother had angered was seeking revenge on Maria and her husband.
ReplyDeleteThe first story I read was Poe's short story, "The Cask of Amotillado." Montresor, the narrator, speaks of being insulted by his acquaintance, Fortunato, and Montresor wishes to seek revenge. He doesn't want to put himself at risk while seeking revenge. Montresor decides to use Fortunatos love of wine against him. During the season of carnival Montresor approaches his acquaintance. Montresor tells Fortunato he had came into contact with something that could pass as amontillado. After Montresor suggested Fortunato didn't have to taste the wine he would have Luchesi do it, Fortunato is anxious about the wine tasting. They go to the vaults. Fortunato uses wine as cough syrup. After they reach the crypt, Fortunato enters the niche to retrieve the amontillado. Montresor chains his intoxicated friend to a stone and using his masonry skills rebuilds the wall trapping Fortunato forever to his death.
ReplyDeleteThe story I chose to read was “Where are you going, Where have you been?” The title suggests that this is a type of traveling story as is seems someone went somewhere possibly in secret and does not want to share their experience. However, this is not the case instead it is about a young teen named Connie. She is a confident bad girl going through her rebellious phase of life. She went places she should not have been but her parents did not know because they would not call her out on it so it was more than easy to trick them to thinking she was an angel. Connie finds herself in a terrible situation one day when her family goes off to a BBQ and she is home alone. A man who she has seen before admits to stalking her and knowing everything there is to know about her. He threatens the one she loves making her come with him and her takes her away to do whatever his mind can come up with.
ReplyDeleteMy first story was Where are you going , Where have you been? It told what seemed to be a young girl struggling with normal teenage emotions. As the story progressed, you could see there were much more troubling things going to happen. I was in suspense and very much enjoyed the plot. I was unclear as to if she died or exactly what happened.
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