Monday, May 23, 2011

"The Birthmark"

Alymer,a scientist stops all his expieriments for a while to marry his beautiful wife, Georgiana. Then one day Georgiana asked her husband if he thinks her birthmark is ugly and he asked her if she ever would think of removing it. She jokingly says no but then learns that he is very serious about it, this makes her upset.He then askes her if he can experient on her,she agrees because she notices how much he stares at it.So he does it and she ends up dying.

Ashley Matthew.

Wednesday, May 18, 2011

"Adventures of the Empty House"

Sherlock Holmes is chasing down the Moriarity gang and they are trying to locate Holmes to kill him so he can get off their tail. Moriarity is killed when Holmes prevails in trying to throw Moriarity off the cliff. So, in revenge Moriarity's men. Van Moren has tracked Holmes down and has tried to kill him. So they set up a dummy dressed like Holmes, and Van Moren happens to walk into the house they picked to spy on him by coincidence they got lucky and take down Van Moren and Holmes for now is no longer in danger.

Dalton Kennedy

Tuesday, May 17, 2011

"The Lottery Ticket"

I thought this story was funny because they was getting their hopes up on the Lottery and they was so close to winning until the final number lol xD

Steven

Thursday, May 12, 2011

"the man who shouted teresea"

this story was pointless bc the people where yelling and they didnt even know why they were doing it. and then they just stopped. this shows who people blindly follow everyone else.

Cody B

"The Eyes Have It"

this story made me mad bc the main character is so stupid bc he takes everything so literal. he also doesnt do anything about it

Cody B

Wednesday, May 11, 2011

"Where are You Going, Where Have You Been?

Oates has claimed that she was influenced by Bob Dylan's song "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue." Look up the lyrics and make a connection.

"Fingers"

How is it difficult to adjust to a civilian lifestyle after experiencing war? What drives some people to commit suicide when they seem to have everything?