Gabriel Marquezs story " A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings" is taken place at a obviously unweathly families home when a old man with wings is stuck in the mud outside. I found myself getting sad in this story because they treated this creature like it was a monster and locked it up. And on top of it, they began to show the creature and make money off of their showcase. Some people believed it was an angel but in the end the creature showed no amazing talents that would indicate that. I feel that this story leaves you hanging because you never find out actually what the old man with wings was doing there nor what he actually was.
The story "Girl" by Jamaica Kincaid was very interesting. I feel the other was trying to convey what it was like to be a girl. Girls are constantly following guidelines of what its like to be lady like. Their also taught chores and task of being a woman. I find it interesting how at the end of the story when it says "this is how you catch a fish and this is how you throw back a fish you dont like" because I always think of fishing as a manly task. Thats when the story really throws me for a loop.
I was very unsure of the story " The grasshopper and the Bell Cricket". Im not sure if I like this story. I feel like the author did a great job with talking about the kids venturing into the forest after creating laterns. I think its funny how the little girl in the story knew what the bug was and the boy didnt. At the end it gets a little confusing. I had to re-read it several times.
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I agree, at first the last story “The Grasshopper and the Bell Cricket” was a bit confusing. It wasn’t until I read it the second time that I fully understood what was going on.
ReplyDeleteI like how you looked at the story "Girl" by Jamaica Kincaid and the reference to fishing. I didn’t pick up on that until you mentioned it. I thought maybe the author meant fish as in men. Saying how one should find a good husband and if he wasn’t the right guy, get rid of him. Maybe the author was instead trying to shock us by writing about a manly task and including it in the how to manual to be a good girl.