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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" How much Land Does a Man Need?"

I really enjoyed the story "How Much Land Does a Man Need". It is clear what the theme of the story is about and I think the context was very repetitive. But overall, this ironic fictional story reflects the reality. How many Pahom do we know? It is very sad that people do not conform to what has and always want more. Ambition and avarice are above everything. How many stories have we heard from people who have gone over each other to get what they want? At the same time t is possible to find people like the younger sister and her husband. People who know how to live with what God gave them and are happy like that. The story was written back on 1886 and it’s really portraits today’s days reality.
The author Leo Tolstoy, a Russian author, had proved that been an orphaned boy doesn't take nobody's talent away. Pahom is the protagonist of this story, who believes that he does not own enough land. The sisters, the younger sister’s husband and the devil are some of the characters. I am not sure if the devil can be considered as an antagonist.

The Loons

Margareth Laurence the author was born in the city of Neepwa, Manitoba in the 1920s. She used the fictional town of Manawaka in The Loons story to relate herself a truly native with the Indian character Piquette Tonerre.
The protagonist of this story is Piquette. The story is written in the fisrt person.
The Loon’s theme is through the description of the plight. The idea of been marginalized by those major ethnic groups. The story has been taken to task for the questionable values attached to its use of Piquette as the stereotype of the doomed minority figure. This is an example for racism. It is omething that we have to deal on daily basis.
I was able to find two setting for the story. There are many conflicts too. One of them is the conflict between the loon (the mirror ethnic people) and the whole society. I also found many symbolism as the loon symbolized the little girl – Piquette; the crying of the loons symbolizes the eagerness of the girl for personal happiness…
I personally really enjoyed this story. It has touched my heart. I wish we could live in a world with racism and stereotypes that make people judge the others without even known where those people come from.

Sonny's Blues

"Sonny's Blues" takes place during the mid-20^th century, probably during the early 1950s. The action of the story occurs prior to the gains made by the Civil Rights Movement, during the dark days of segregation and supposedly "separate but equal" accommodations in public institutions.Sonny's Blues is narrated in the first-person by an unnamed character, Sonny's brother. The story opens as the narrator, who has been estranged from Sonny for over a year, is on the subway, reading about a drug raid in which Sonny has been arrested and jailed. As guilt and sorrow wash over him, the narrator is approached by one of Sonny's childhood friends, an addict who blames himself for Sonny's addiction and subsequent arrest. The narrator and the friend discuss what has happened to Sonny, and we see the narrator begin, with anger, to try to understand how and why Sonny has become an addict.

When Sonny is released from prison, the narrator brings him back to live with his family in Harlem and begins trying to repair their relationship.

At this point in the story, the narrator flashes back to several scenes that occurred during their young adulthood.

Like with so many other stories, in Sonny's Blues the dramatic action mainly concerns the characters' changes or lack of them. The character changes in Sonny's Blues are particularly interesting, and subtle, in part because the plot features a character's battle with heroin addiction, and the narrator's efforts to come to grips with this character's addiction and recovery.

The story reminds me about my brother. He had had drugs problems in the past. This is a problem that we never that it can happen with us. It involve the whole family and it is very difficult

AN OCCURRENCE AT OWL CREEK BRIDGE

AN OCCURRENCE AT OWL CREEK BRIDGE

By
Ambrose Bierce
THE MILLENNIUM FULCRUM EDITION, 1988


The protagonist of this short story is Peyton Farquhar. He was a civilian from a respected Alabama family. He was around 35 years old; a naturally secessionist and ardently devoted to the Southern cause.
The story is chronologic when you see the aspect about the way his is dying; all the fears, pain, and details that the author described. But the story is contemporaneous, Farquhar has many flash backs about his life, wife and children. Those flash backs go back and forward during his process of death.
The organization of the story is well done. The author provided vivid details. The other characters are soldiers, the sergeant, and a Capitan.
This a sad and dramatic text. I could feel his agony every time that read what he was feeling.
Farquhar was a strong man, he fought for his life and the love of his family made him strong enough to be able to finish his life where he belongs to, next to his wife, at the place where he used to have a happy life.
The story showed his strong family values, but also the abuse of power from the military.