“The Lame Shall Enter First”

Flannery O’Connor’s story “The Lame Shall Enter First” is ironic with satire. The story talks about the “GOOD” and “BAD”. Like the heaven and the hell. It shows many symbolisms; what is right or wrong. I personally do not like the story, I do not like sad story, especially because Norton committed a suicide. I know that he believes that doing that he could be close to his mother. But for me, I believe in l life after death. I believe that God is the only one with the power to decide when our time here is over or no. Metaphors characterize the story every time the author refers the characters to some kind of food. The ten-year-old boy Norton is the main character. This dramatic story is very long

“Everything That Rises Must Converge"

I really enjoyed the story.The main point of the story is a historical criticism related with social conflicts as racism, and feminism. The auhtor, used to be a feminist, and she worte many stories aproaching this subject. I have a feeling that O'Connor put some of her experiencies on her stories, including "Everything That Rises Must Converge".
The setting of the story is Savanna.
The story has a lot of symbolism, as an example when Jillian's mother gives a little black boy a penny on the bus. When she gives the penny to the balck boy, it give me an idea of a subimission. It is way she sees black people, as people below to her class. People, which depends on them, the "whites".The hat, and letter Y are also anothers symbolism that I found.
Julian is the progatonist.And he is a round character. His mother is
The fictinal story is also ironic.

A Pair of Tickets - Reviewed

This is the story that enjoyed read the most since we started this class. The Chinese culture is very interesting. I never been in China and I do not know much about the Chinese people, besides go out every Friday to have lunch at my favorite Chinese restaurant in Sarasota. But the story really touches my heart. I imagined myself many times as part of that trip with June and his father.
I was not sure about the main character. I would say June (the daughter). But I am confused about it. The whole story involves her mother. The story is a memoir of her mother’s life and June childhood memories. We also can find some foreshadows. Things that June wants to happen, but it really happen that way he wants. And things that thinks and it happen. I wish his mom was alive. I also imagined the reaction of her twin sisters after so many years meeting their mom. The story is very sentimental, it made me cry. The story also tells about what the Chinese people suffered in the past with the revolution, when the author mentioned that time that June’s mom left the twin back. The story also talks about acceptance. The narrator own acceptance into her Chinese culture.

A Pair of Tickets

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A Pair of Tickets

This is the story that enjoyed read the most since we started this class. The Chinese culture is very interesting. I never been in China and I do not know much about the Chinese people, besides go out every Friday to have lunch at my favorite Chinese restaurant in Sarasota. But the story really touches my heart. I imagined myself many times as part of that trip with June and his father.
I was not sure about the main character. I would say June. But I am confused about it. The whole story involves his mothers. The story is a memoir of his mother’s life and June childhood memories. We also can find some foreshadows. Thins that June wants to happen, but it really happen that way he wants. And things that thinks and it happen. I wish his mom was alive. I also imagine the reaction of his twin sisters after so many years meeting their mom. The story is very sentimental, it made cry. The story also tells about what the Chinese people suffered in the past.

A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings

A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings

This story was written by the author Garcia Marquez in 1968. This fiction has as protagonist a old man with huge wings. People start to call him an angel, but I am not very sure that he is an angel. He is a round character. All the other characters (minor) are flat, except the wife. She did not like the angel when he appears in her house, but she changes her idea about him later. The baby is a flat character as well when I see the perspective of the story, but his physical condition is round. At the beginning of the story he is very sick and at the end he gets better.
The story seems to be a realism mixed with fantasy. I am not sure how to clarify .The setting is the beach. The main idea is also unclear for me. I believe the author wants to say that sometimes people are not what they seem to be. The old man is a calm and patient man. During the story he does not do anything bad, but he is a suspect character. He is surreal.
The story has a lot of symbolism as the wings, the spider woman...and some contrasts as well.
Overall, I like the story.

Sonny’s Blues

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Sonny is the protagonist of the story written by the author James Baldwin and takes place during the middle of the 20’; in New York. The story has a chronological organization and it is about the dysfunctional relationship between two brothers. The difficulty of the older brother to accept his younger brother for who he is.

Sonny's Blues is narrated in the first-person by an unnamed character, Sonny's brother. I found some symbolism on this fiction and the diction was informal. The narration description is also dramatic action. There are points when the narrator flashes back to several scenes that occurred during their young adulthood.

I believe that the whole point of the story is about love. At the end, Sonny was the one the taught his older a new lesson.

The story reminds me about my brother. He had had drugs problems in the past. This is a problem that we never think that it can happen with us, which involve the whole family and it is very difficult to deal with. This drug issue can happen with any type of person, it does not matter the race, color or economic situation. Love and God are beyond everything. That’s why we have to help and support any person that is relating with us (with or without blood) to try superate this problem, that seems to consume a big part of the world.

“Sonny’s Blues” shows the character addiction and recovery.

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