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The second short story I really enjoyed was The Bet. The offer was an great offer, but I rather have my freedom. Looking at four walls isn't interesting at all I would have refuse the offer.
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A cure for everything was a descent enough story. It taught a lesson about human greed and need to understand everything around it. in my opinion thjey should have left that tribe isolated from the world. Sure the medical benefits would have been extremely helpful but to destroy something that has been totaly untouched for years in immorale and wrong.
ReplyDeleteLost at sea was a inner hero story. a group of friends set out on a boat looking for good times, when all goes bad and the party is put through one of the worst experinces of their lives. The story didnt really grab at my attention, there didnt seem to be anything special about it in any way.
ReplyDeleteA Robot Vision by Isaac Asimov was by far my favorite short story. It takes place in the year 2033, a group of scientis are working with the idea of time travel. After succeding in building a machine they send a robot into the future and when he comes back they ask him all sorts of rigourus questions to get all of the information he gathered. This book was good all around the story was good, dialouge was solid, and the lesson learned at the end is a priceless one. Definatley give this one a read.
ReplyDeleteThe bet was an interesting story. A banker bets a young lawyer ( I think) 2 million dollars that he cant stay in solitairy confinement for 5 years. The lawyer for some reason boast and says he will stay segregated for 15 years. so through out the years ( not totally sure on those dates) the lawyer stays locked in the garden house having the banker bring him books of all sorts. shortly before he was to be set free he left the room and so forefeiting the bet. this writing was vey good in this story and the morale at the end really spoke to me in the selection. yet agian definatley give this one a read.
ReplyDeletethe oval portrait was interesting, but the man shouldve paid more attention to his wife instead of painting his life away. the day he's finally realize the time he's wasted it was too late. therefore living in regret.
ReplyDeleteBed Time Story
ReplyDeleteThis story was fun to read because it was really short but had a good twist in it. This man is having an affair with his wife, and said he is going to hire a hit man to kill her. But, his wife hired a hit man which also happens to be the lady he is having the affair with.
Ivy Day in tthe Comitte Room
ReplyDeleteThis was a 17 page story about a election in ireland. When i read this story i was completly confused because all that was happening was people were walking in and out of the room creating small talk. The story did not get intresting until the end talking about how they would die for their country.
Pay for the Printer
ReplyDeleteThis was another long story with 14 pages. It is about these people that live in settlements and do not know how to build anything by themselvs. They have this thing called "the printer" which makes copies of any thing, like cars or lighters. But, once the printer starts to die off it is unable to print any more and there for it the people do not have the ability to live any more.
One of the short stories that I read was The Man who was almost a man. The story talked about Dave, the protagonist, who wanted a gun to be proven to be a man. Through getting the gun, and shooting and killing his donkey, he learned that having the gun wasn't becoming a man, but the choices he would make with that gun would.
ReplyDeleteOne of the short stories I read was The Fall of the House of Usher, by Edgar Allen Poe. In this story the protagonist, the narrator, visits his cousin, the antagonist, Roderick Usher, in his haunted castle. Roderick has recently suffered the loss of his sister, and is haunted by her ghost. The narrator learns through the supernatural event that take place that not everyone is sain, and there are some things to great for explanation.
ReplyDeleteI read Dr. Heidegger's Experiment, by Nathaniel Hawthorne. The main character, Dr. Heidegger, invents a potion of youth. He experiments with friends who are eager to participate in the process to go back and undo any wrongs in their lives. This story presents a theme of confliction, and shows the audience that your mistakes and experiences make you who you are, and that can't be simply erased by magic.
ReplyDeleteI read The Story of an Hour, by Kate Choplin. The main character, Mrs. Mallad, was stuck the duties she was expected to perform because of the society at the time and her gender. After recieving news of her husbands' death, instead of mourning the loss, she embraces the freedom she has waited to experience, only to later die from finding out that he was actually alive. Mrs. Mallard wanted freedom and that she recieved through her death.
ReplyDeleteNumbers Have It
ReplyDeleteI read the numbers have it and it was a really good story with a twisted plot. The guy that originally walked into the robbery ended up going back and forth between the robbers and the cops and neither of them know what is going on. This story shows just how far humans will go to fit in with a crowd
Bicycles up Kilimanjaro
ReplyDeleteI read the short story bicycles up kilimanjaro and it was about two cousins that hiked up mount kilimanjaro with their bikes on their backs. The two cousins wanted to be the first people to ride their bikes down the full lenght of the mountian. This story shows that if humans really put their mind to something and try hard almost anything is possible.
The pony express
ReplyDeleteI read the short story the pony express and it told how the pony express originally got started. During the gold rush in california it would take weeks sometimes months for people to get their mail because they were so issolated from the rest of the world. They really needed a way to get mail faster so a bunch of young men got together and started the pony express. You had to be able to ride a horse and shoot a gun to be a part of it. They put their lifes on the line everyday fighting indians, wild animals, and facing mother nature. Even though they did all of these things no body even really thinked them and thats what this shot story was wrote for.
I read "The Dinner Party" by Mona Gardner, people from different backgrounds are eating together and talk about several things, one of them being that women get scared by the smallest things. One of the Americans present at the dinner, notices a bowl of milk. In India this means that there is a dangerous snake and he notices that the hostess is the one that noticed too so he told everyone to stay still, and the one that dindt was going to have to pay. When he sees that the snake is in the bowl he tells everyone they can move again. At the end of the dinner he asks the hostess how she found out the snake was right there, and she told him that it was crawling up her leg. Which is very ironic because minutes before that happened, they were talking about how women get scared about everything.
ReplyDelete"Another Evening at the Club" by Alfaa Rifaat.
ReplyDeleteThis story is about a woman married to a wealthy man, when he asked her to marry him he gave her a beautiful emerald ring and she always wore for important occasions. One night they were at the club, had a few drinks, went back home and the next morning she woke up looking for her ring because she didnt see it where she usually put it. So, she looked for it everywhere, and no sings of it so she decided to blame it on her maid because she was the only one there, her husband sent the maid to jail, beat her up and did many things to her; she always swore she didnt have it but no one believed her. Few days later, the wife found it behind her dresser, but they decided to hide it and dont tell anyone so they werent ridiculed. I think its really bad, that because of her mistake that poor girl had to get beat up and go to jail and they didnt even recognize their mistake.
"Paper" Catherine Lim
ReplyDeleteIt starts when Tay Soon, a happily married man has big dreams and whishes all of them come true. But his biggest one was having a huge house, he and his wife have been saving for it for a long time now, he heard that some people were putting their money in stocks so he did it too. It didnt take much time for them to make good money, but they grew greedy and kept on getting money, even when they had almost everything to pay for the house. At the end, the stocks dropped and they ended up bankrupt just because they got a little bit too happy and obssessed with money.
"The Lottery Ticket" Anton Chekhov
ReplyDeleteIvan and his wife were looking at the newspaper, and as always she told him to check for the lottery he did it just to make sure they lost again, but this time was different the numbers were the same in a matter of few seconds they saw their lives as millionaires. Ivan noticed that his wife's look was mean, selfish, he started thinking that she was going to take all his money away and she thought the same thing about him. Finally, they realized that they made a mistake when looking at the numbers and it was a different one. I think it was really bad, because just at the possibility of getting some money they act like they have never seen money before and start hating each other, so it was good that they didnt get it after all.
in the story "paycheck" the main charicter had his memory removed so he could not tell any one what he did. this is an enteresting consept, what if we could do that to our self or others. what would our world come to?
ReplyDeletetwo of the storys i read were from a colection of shurlock holmes storys and resontly saw the movie. in the storys he is less of a action hero and more of a intilecual. i feel that in the movie they tried to make him a victorian james bond. i feel this ruined the storys.
ReplyDelete"Gerald no last name"
ReplyDeleteI think that it is important to know the people that you love and care about. Because when you don't know his/her last name than it would feel like you never knew that person.
"The Bicentenial Man"
ReplyDeleteIt is amazing how what Americans can look forward to having robots then turning the robots into human form then the robots wanna die because they find out that humans live then they die so they wanna live like a true human so they also wanna die like a true human.And some robots also wanna experience love in there life and when they die they wanna have a persons hand to hold when they take there last breath and have there last heart beat they want someone to be by there side life till death..-Austin H.
"The Dinner Party"
ReplyDeleteThis story was about true courage and bravery to protect people from that deadly snake from it attacking anyone any person deserves to be thanked or more than thank because protecting someones life from a snake is a pretty huge deal.
The lottery ticket.
ReplyDeleteThe story was about a couple who thought they got lucky an was getting closer to winning the lottery. They fought an he thought since he was going to get rich he didnt need his wife an started dreaming about st. martins but it all went to an end when they didnt win
The thief
ReplyDeleteThis was by far the best story i read,there was this guy who was stealing stuff out of dorm rooms at college. one of the roommate found out some secret info about the thief and shared it with the others. once the other roommates found out all the steling stopped making it look like one of he roommates. i have similar situations happen to me all the time just not stealing!
The Nicest Kid in the Universe was one of the short stories i enjoyed. It was about a boy who was nice to everyone and did right on everything. I found it quite humorous how he didn't notice that earth had a moon.
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The lottery ticket
ReplyDeleteIn the story a wife always bought a lottery ticket but never expcted to win, yet she checked it every day. One day the husband who thought it was a waste of money check it for her and thought they had his number, the whole family started to be rude and turn on eachother then found out that it wasnt there number.
I enjoyed this story because you see this happen all the time when people run into a large sum of money
I really enjoyed The Lottery Ticket by Chekov. I think it shows the true feelings of love when money is involved. when faced with being able to do anything in the world from being so rich, people tend to want that at all costs. They become paranoid and brooding and do everything they can to secure the money for themselves.
ReplyDeleteTHE CHASER
ReplyDeleteI really enjoyed this story! Alan was in love with this girl, Diana, that never paid much attention to him and he went to a wizard type guy who made him a love potion to make her fall in love. I relate to this because he had done something to decieve Diana and have her fall for him. Which is what guys do alot of the time, they change themselves and tell you things you want to hear to decieve you to make you fall for them, and when you do the truth comes out on who they reallt are. JANE FRISBY
THE DINNER PARTY
ReplyDeleteI really enjoyed this story because it was friends all gathered around having a nice dinner when they saw a snake. I didnt realize that milk helped lured a snake. And they were talking about peoples reactions and they were different from the people at the dinners party reactions. But totally spoke about my reaction i would be freaking out if there was a snake at my feet!!! JANE FRISBY
"The Man Who Shouted Teresa" Italo Calvino
ReplyDeleteI liked this short story because it was odd in the beginning how the protagonist was yelling Teresa up into a building. It got me interested and wanting to read more. I also liked how random people in the street would help him yell Teresa too.
"Accidents" Mark Cohen
ReplyDeleteI also like this story, a flash-fiction. I liked the way they prove karma to be true, whatever comes around goes around.
"The Lottery"
ReplyDeleteThis story came off as boring and annoying at the beginning but the last couple paragraphs definetly gave the story a twist. It's somewhat weird to think that a town would have a tradition such as the one they did.
Chance Robb 4th period
"Bedtime Story"
ReplyDeleteThis story was one of my favorites because of the irony at the end. How the husband bad mouths women saying they arnt capable of being a hitman but yet the lady with the husband is the hitman that the wife had hired.
Chance Robb 4th period
"sally"
ReplyDeleteThe story was about a beautiful girl, her dad thought it was trouble for her being so pretty. She had a best friend until the week before easter.People wanted to be just like her.And all she wanted was "to love and to love and to love, and no one could call that crazy'.
"the story of an hour"
ReplyDeleteMrs. Mallad was a women that had to do things she didnt want to becuase of her race.Then she recieved news that her husband died. Instead of crying about it she tries getting freedom, then finds out her husband didnt really die.
KP!
"THE DINNER PARTY"
ReplyDeleteIn india ther are having a large dinner party.An american guy notices that there is a bowl of milk in the middle of the table and knows that is snake bait and the people have to sit and cant move until he counts to 300 wich is 5 minutes. Then the snake crawls on the ladies foot.
KP!
"into the night"
ReplyDeleteThis story is more like a poem a women is cheating on her husband and gets cuaght in the end. the whole poem is told one word at a time with a period At the time of reading this it doesnt really make sense, But by the end you figure everything out she was cheating on her husband and he came home and saw him and chased him out the door.
kp
"Priscilla and the Wimps"
ReplyDeleteThis story is about a gang called "The Kobras" that ruled the school and mainly picked on a kid name Melvin Detweiler constantly only because he was small and helpless but on day a girl name Priscilla a big girl not fat just huge came to save the day she scared the gang so bad that they never messed with anyone anymore....-Austin Hardee