Monday, October 29, 2012

Independent Short Stories

Reading Times: The Autobiography of Pele: 10/22- 25 min. 10/23- 30 min. 10/24-25 min. 10/25- 40 min. 10/26- 10 min. 10/27-25 min.  155 min total  pp.79-120

     I read 3 completely different stories this week. They are Hills like White Elephants by: Ernest Hemingway, The Sniper by: Liam O'Flaherty, and The Return by: Ngugi Wa Thiongo. In Hills, there was almost no plot whatsoever, or at least none that I saw. I found absolutely nothing to write about in that story. In Sniper, I found something that right now is my lead topic. In Return, i could probably find something, but it wouldn't be nearly as good as my idea for the sniper.
     Right now, my lead statement is one about The Sniper. And my statement is.... The main character (he has no name) and his brother(also no name) are not close and didn't have good memories with each other in the past. This matters because it ends up being the whole story, especially at the end. I think that I can definitely expand on this in a literacy analysis.

3 comments:

  1. Good post. You need to be careful to capitalize everything that needs to be capitalized. Your lead sounds good and you can easily expand on it and make a good paper.

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  2. Good choice for a possible literary analysis. Maybe it even reflects soming of the author's life too.

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  3. Good statement I'm wondering the same thing. I want to read sniper I've heard good things about.

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