Recitatif/Arabi

Recitatif was a really good story. The characters are very different from eachother and change throughout the story. The main character in the story are Twyala and Roberta. They become best friends in the the shelter that they were takin to. They became such good friends becuase unlike the other childern their prents are still alive they just cant take car of them. Throughout the story after the girls leave the shelter they dont speak eachother other than the ocasional run in. They run it to eachother a few times and each time the girls are very different. First Roberta is very mean to Twalya. Then their nice to eachother it keeps changing. Roberta's and Twalya's mothers are very different also. Twalya's mother when she came to visit didnt bring lunch for twalya she dressed like she wasnt going to chruch and didnt act right in a church setting. Roberta's mother brought a huge lunch dressed like she was going to chruch she didnt like Twalya's mother.
Arabi
The main character in this story is a little boy who has a major crush on his freinds sister. He makes promises that he didnt keep to her.

Trifles

I liked this play. It kept me wandering if they were ever going to find out who killed Mr. Wright. You start to think that Mrs. Wright did it becuase she is just sitting in the chair pleading at her apron and found that she didnt call any one when she woke to find her husband dead. But then you start to feel bad for her like maybe she didnt do anything becuase she was in shock. Then further into the play the ladies find a dead canarie that had been strangled. This makes you think that no doubt that Mrs. Wright had killed her husband. Within the story Glaspell goes from talking about what the ladies are doing then to what the men are doing. So it gives you more information about the whole situation. If she was to just talk about the men then we wouldnt know about the canarie becasue the ladies didnt say anything to the men about it. If she didnt talk about the men then they wouldnt know about Mrs. Wright in her chair or that she didnt call anyone when she found the husband dead or that the rope came from the house and not an outside source.

In The Lake by the Woods

I didnt acutally get to read the book but I did read a summary. I thought that it sounded like a really good book. What I had read was that this man was in to politics and he was in the war. Him and his wife went to a town called The Lake by the Woods and then she disaperred and the husband was getting blamed for it. I wish I could have read it becuase it seemed like a really good book.

The Hunger Artist/ Young Goodman Brown

The Hunger Artist
I thought that this was a good story. Its about a man that lies in a cage where he does not eat. In the begining he had many spectators. Many of which did not believe he was really not eating. But many people were still fasinated. After a while he joined the circus and not as many people really found interest in the hunger artist. No one kept track of how long he had not eaten for and neither did he. One day a spectator noticed that there was no hungar artist in the cage. He was hidden under the straw and had died. He was then barried and replaced with a panther. I thought that the symbolism in this story was that the crowd thought that this man the hunger artist was doing this to prove a point that there was great meaning behind what he was doing but really there wasn't any meaning at all for why he was starving himself. He just couldn't find anything that he liked to eat.

Young Goodman Brown
This story starts out when Young Goodman Brown leaves his wife Faith to do an overnight errand but Faith does not want him to go. But he does and along the way he runs in to an old man that he felt he was supposed to meet up with. This man to me I think is supposed to be a symbol of the dark side. Which he would be going in to. He loses all good.

The Jewelry / The Cask of Amontillado

The Jewelry
I really liked this story. This story was very ironic. It starts out with the wife wearing lots of beautiful jewelry that she says is false. "Bust she got into the habit of suspending in her pretty ears two big cut pebbles, fashioned in imiation of diamonds and she wore necklaces of false pearls, bracelets of fasle gold and haircombs studded with paste-imitations precious stones." Her husband told her she shouldnt be flashing around jewelry the way she did, when it was fake. He said when one can't afford such jewelry then she should grace people with her natruel beauty. But she didn't care she loved to wear her jewelry. She ended up dieing of pneumonia. After a while the husband ran out of money so he took one of the false neckleses hopeing to get six francs but found that it was worth much much more. So he took all his wifes jewelry and found that he could get 196,00 francs. His died wifes jewelry was a life savor.

The cask of Amontillado
This story was extremly confusing. All I could understand is that there was a guy that ended up blocking himslef in a casket where he would die.