A Rose for Emily

The setting for this story is Emily's house. Everyone is at her funeral. I thought this story was quit good.

The Lady with the Dog

I think that there are more than one setting in this story. The main setting is Yalta which is a Russian city on the Black sea. This is where im guessing the main charaters meet. I didnt really like this story. I did not like the man the one who portrade women in a bad way.

Plot:Girl/ An occurance at owl creek bridge

Plot "It is the work itself, the author's arrangement of events from the first page to the last. Includs the linkage of events by cause and effect. Is the author's presentation of events so as to engage readers intellectually and emotionally. Authors do this through such devices as pacing, intense conflict, surprise, rising action, climax, withheld information, and foreshadowing of later events." (Pg. 45, Course Pack)

Gril
I think that the plot of this story was the wisdom being handed down from the mother to, Im guessing her daughter. An older figure maybe important to the other person/daughter so this information is very important.
AN occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
I think that the plot in this story is the fighting between the north and the south. The farm worker fighting for the south he knows if he goes to fight agasnt the north that he would be hung. But he does and as he is waiting with the nose around his neck another plot apears. Things go throw his mind like he could get out of the ropes and as the man gets of the board holding him up he falls and as he falls the rope breaks and he goes in to the water. He trys to get away but the soldiers shot at him and then he gets out of the water safe and then heads for home. As he gets to the gate he feels a sharp pain. He was dead. So as he was hanging he thought all this in his head.

Side note
Girl
I thought this was a little confusing at first becuase i thought it was just a whole bunch of info that she was just spuing out. But then I figured she must be giving wisdom to some one maybe her daughter.
Owl Creek Bridge
I thought this was very interesting I thought that he was going to be able to be back with his family. That the rope really did break and he didnt get hit by any of the bullets that were shot at him. But then it was such a disappointment at the end when you find out that he dies that everything that happend really didnt.

Hills Like White Elephants

I have no clue what to weite about this. To me it was really confusing, I did not understand what was going on in this story.
After talking about this story in this class I found that the reason why I was so confused is because the couple are fighting about something. The story uses different things so show what they are talking about. The hills like what elephants is like pregnancy/abortion.

A Good Man is Hard to Find

I thought that this was a good story it kept me wandering what was going to happen next. Its about a grandmother, her son and his family going on a family trip to Florida. But the grandmother dosnt want to go becuase she wants to go to Tennesse. She trys talking her son out of it by saying the kids have never been to Tennesse and that there was a killer loose by the name of Misfit and he was headed to Florida. Well the grandmother did not get to go to Tennesse. She was the first in the car the next morning with her cat hidden in a basket. As the trip goes on the grandmother tells stories of Tennesse and Georgia as the little boy crtisizes them for being so boring. When they enter Florida the grandmother tells the childeren of a house that had 6 white colums and there was a secret panel with silver in it. After the story the childeren tried talking their father in to going and after a few minutes of wineing the childeren go their way. The grandmother pointed out that the dirt road was a mile or so back and they headed on to the dirt road. As they driving a while on the dirt road the grandmother relized she made a terrible mistake the house wasnt in Florida but in Tennesse. She got so upset her feet julted up and distered her basket and then the cat freaked out and sprang on the Bailey's (the dad) shoulder. It scared him so much that he flipped the car in to the ditch and rolled the car. Everyone was ok just minor cuts scraps and the mother had a broken shoulder. They didnt think anyone was going to find them but then a car came up of the hill. Three men got out of the car and said that they could help them. In the grandmothers mind she knew who one man was but couldnt pin point it. Finally she blurted out your the misfit and inded he was. The two men with the Misfit killed everyone but the grandmother. As they were being killed the grandmother kept saying the the misfit was a good man. After a while he killed her to.

In reading "The Story of an Hour" By Kate Chopin I thought this story was interesting and thought provoking because it gets you first, with Mrs. Mallard having a heart condition so you think she is going to die. But then she goes on to tell you that Mr. Mallard dies. So my assumtion was all wrong. But yet the story takes another turn and Mr. Mallared isnt really dead. But then Mrs. Mallard does die from her heart condition. So though I thought my assumption to be wrong I was really right, but the story took me for a turn.I also think that Chopin used alot of great describing words to show how the emotion of her husbands death comes over her. From the way she stands in the window to the way she was in her sisters arms.The the way she cried from finding out that her husband was died and then again when she found he was alive.

After reading "The Story of an Hour" a second time my thoughts did not change I still feel the same about it. I am a little confused on why they would tell Mrs. Mallard that her husband was dead if they didnt have evidence but that was it.