—Hugo Rodriguez The text that I did not understand was “Good Country People” by Flannery O’Connor. On my first read through of the text I found it very boring, which definitely impacted my understanding of the text. I read through the text and didn’t even stop and think about what I was reading. In my […]
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The text that I connected with was difficult to understand at first
—Hugo Rodriguez The text that I connected with was “Good Country People” by Flannery O’Conner. This text was difficult to understand at first, and I had to read through it a couple of times in order to build an understanding of this text. I connected with this text because the main character of the story […]
Not a short horror story
—Hugo Rodriguez This semester the text that made me feel uncomfortable was the text called “Ghosts” by Edwidge Danticat. This text challenged me intellectually, as I did not understand why the author of the story, named it “Ghosts”. “Ghosts” despite it’s name was not a short horror story. The short story was about a boy […]
Senorita Lora
—Anonymous Junot Diaz’s Miss Lora is a story centering on a cross-generation relationship between Yunior and Miss Lora. The story is first published in The New Yorker in 2012, which is relatively new than most stories we have read in this course before. Compared to Endgame and other stories that we have read earlier in […]
“Endgame” by Samuel Beckett was…
—Veronica Chu “Endgame” by Samuel Beckett was a very interesting short story. The story was about two male characters named Clov and Hamm who lived together and had a complicated relationship and of course there are their parents too. These parents were not treated with the best care and they seem very sad. When I […]
