Fiction Time!!

During this week and last Thursday we started discussing some short stories. These short stories ranged from funny, and life hearted ones to more serious ones. With each new short story, a new author with a new technique. Some were fabricated with more dialogue, one felt like it was a run on sentence broken up by semi colon.

Wallet was lighthearted, and fun. The story was about an older man who created a fake wallet, filled to the brim, because his kept getting stolen. He has his son be the getaway driver when conducting the "experiment" of taking the wallet to the mall and seeing if the fake wallet will get stolen. This backfires in the sense of the fake wallet being stolen and the guy runs for it. It mostly takes place as a mall, but in a car as well. The line "He is an old man trying to act feeble and childlike..." is a good line to add when discussing about the fact that he is trying to fool others into taking the fake wallet.

Letters from Home was more of a list in terms of writing. Though filled with the imagery of what she was doing possibly in the day of her life. Or maybe it was for her whole life. The ending is not that clear about what happens to her in the end for she is now sailing away with a guy. The question would be who is this guy and why is he just randomly appearing. During the middle section of the short story, it is broken up with a guy that is coming and asking about things. There may be more of religious connotations within it. Then the story gets really deep in the last part where it is talking about everything is connected with each other.

Another one that I particularly liked was The Colonel. Within this story, it is about a man visiting a fellow military man. I did not understand this story that much, I am not sure why,  but I was trying to figure out what relationship the two men had. Like was the main visiting a friend or a lover???? This was not clear. What I did understand, however, was the fact that the colonel did not care much about anyone else. It was his way or the highway. The imagery is strong towards the end, when he is spilling the ears out of a sack. It is a disgusting image to think about.