"Trifles" by Susan Glaspell

I sympathize with the two women in the story who want to hide the canary. If my friend were in trouble for doing an awful act but the victim deserved it by all means I would help them out as well. To have to go through such terrible treatment and keep going is just an awful occurance. The women shouldn't have killed John, but it sounded like he deserved it on some level. John couldn't get away with killing that bird that ment so much to his wife and think he could get away with it.

"Young Goodman Brown" by Nathaniel Hawthorne

So I read this story 1 and a half times and still can't really get a grasp of it. I go the part where he had a vision and he thought that everyone was a sinner, but I couldn't help wondering if tha was the nature of the story. That everyone makes mistakes and everyone had secrets. I hope to find more about this story once I get to class today and maybe it will answer my confusion.

"A Hunger Artist" by Frank Kafka

Well my belief about this story is that it shows that if you can't find something you like about a thing than you should not do it. In this case it was eating because he couldn't find food he liked so the man decided to fast. It seems pretty straight forward with little interpretation necessary except I feel like the panther means something, if someone could help me figure it out that would be great. Bye all

"Cask of Amontillado" By Edgar Allan Poe

This is the knid of story I enjoy. A tale of betrayal, trickery, and ultimately anothers pain. As sadistic as that sounds I am still a completely normal person. This story is filled with verbal and dramatic irony in every page. Some examples are the victims name, Fortunato meaning somewhere along the lines of "good luck" (I can't remember the exact translation). Another is in one of the closing conversations when Fortunato said "let us be gone" he meant they should both leave whereas when the narrator spoke he meant let him leave and fortunato ascend to the heavens. Another moment was when the narrator said that Fortunato was "luckily met", Fortunato believed this to be a greeting where the narrator knew it to me more of good chance for the plan to succeed. I like this story, I've read it before and will probably read it again at some point and I hope to read more like it soon for this class.

"Recitatif" by Toni Morrison

This was a change of pace from the usually love story we read which was nice. The short story told more of a bond formed between two completely different girls (economically speaking). This story showed the great relationships that racially different people can achieve and how they can grow and then so tragically end because of the times. Too look deeper I would say the author perhaps had an experience like this perhaps and found inspiration in that, but I cannot be certain as the internet lies too often. Regardless, it was refreshing to not read a love story.

"Araby" by James Joyce

On a note before I tell my feelings of this read, I have noticed many failed or complicated relationship stories leading me to believe that bany writers have a history o terrible relationships. Anyway, I read Araby and I believed the girl to have some kind of motive to lead him on a little. I would like to say that the boy was a bit rash and quick to act as well. Manipulation knows no sexual boundaries yet I witness it more in women than men for some reason which of course leads me to believe that this poor lad was tricked with notions of love. The fact that he had no money saved him from his fate. Different read, but still not to my liking yet.