Exercise 3
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 31st, 2021
Monthly Archive for January, 2021
Exercise 3: Quilters
Posted in Exercise 3 images on Jan 30th, 2021
Exercise 3
Posted in Exercise 3 images on Jan 30th, 2021
Exercise 3 Photo
Posted in Exercise 3 images on Jan 29th, 2021
Richard Ford, “Sweethearts”
Posted in Richard Ford on Jan 29th, 2021
This story by Richard Ford featured a man and his partner, Arlene, as he took Arlene’s ex-husband to jail. The narrator, Russ, tried to tell a story about Bobby, Arlene’s ex-husband, and the events of the morning and trip of taking him to jail. It was a relatively slow-paced story being that it wasn’t a fight […]
Exercise 3 Image select
Posted in Exercise 3 images on Jan 29th, 2021
For some reason when I had watched this video Wednesday, this image stuck out to me. So, I think that’s a good reason to look back on it to write something about it. I think this could attribute to a story of any sort, whether kind, loving, dramatic, horror, and so on. Personally, I can […]
Mary Robison, “I Am Twenty-One”
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 28th, 2021
This short story has a lot of different things going on. It starts with the narrator taking an exam in college. She wants to get better than a C on her exam as all of her other courses are C work. She struggles with one of the questions and gets frustrated when the assistant professor […]
Richard Ford, “Rock Springs”
Posted in Richard Ford on Jan 28th, 2021
“Rock Springs” is narrated by a man named Earl, a dad to a little girl named Cheryl. Earl has a long criminal background while trying to stay afloat for himself and dragging his daughter with him. He finds a girlfriend named Edna and moves into her house. At this moment in the story, we think […]
Richard Ford, “Rock Springs”
Posted in Richard Ford on Jan 28th, 2021
“Rock Springs” is a story that roughly follows a “family” on their journey to Florida. However, Ford manages to change almost every aspect of this simple summary. This story is full of lies and fabrications, parenting, decision making, and probably any other number of things. This story is really about Earl, a criminal father trying […]
Richard Ford, “Great Falls”
Posted in Richard Ford on Jan 28th, 2021
This story presents itself in a detached and/or disassociated play-like structure. The narrator, Jackie, spends a three-part narrative undergoing a maturity shift as he deals with the fact his mother has committed adultery. The figurative sections of his life make up the assumed parts of a play. The first stage of change represents Jackie’s initial […]
“Rock Springs”
Posted in Richard Ford on Jan 28th, 2021
We seem to read a lot of stories about liars in this class. Earl, our narrator, is taking his family on a road trip with no real destination in mind since all he’s trying to do is keep away from the law. We don’t know what he’s running from when the story starts, but we […]
Richard Ford, “Rock Springs”
Posted in Richard Ford on Jan 28th, 2021
The story is about a “family” on the run from the law that stops in a town called Rock Springs, Wyoming. The “family” consists of a father named Earl who is the narrator of the story, his girlfriend Edna, Earl’s daughter Cheryl, and her pet dog named Little Duke. They had stolen a car from […]
“Great Falls”
Posted in Richard Ford on Jan 28th, 2021
When I was reading “Great Falls” I kept thinking about one of JGB’s posted questions: “Why is the narrator telling the story?” I think that it’s clear that the narrator is trying to process a traumatic childhood event later in life. His mother’s infidelity, his father’s violence, and his mother’s subsequent absence is a lot […]
Richard Ford, “Great Falls”
Posted in Richard Ford on Jan 27th, 2021
This piece of literature by Richard Ford places the reader in the memories of Jackie, our narrator, as they experience the breaking up of their family throughout the duration of the story. The richness of the descriptions the author offers to us provide a very accurate representation of how we remember old experiences, with some […]
“Great Falls “
Posted in Richard Ford on Jan 27th, 2021
The story “Great Falls” appears to be Jackie’s way of coping with an event from his childhood that even in adulthood, he does not fully understand. The separation of his parents is most likely something he thinks about often based on the fact he has visited the site of the house before. Throughout the story we […]
Writers Series: Lee Ann Roripaugh (virtual event)
Posted in Writers Series on Jan 27th, 2021
A reminder of the first Writers Series event of the Spring: Monday, February 1, 2021 | 7:30pm – 9:00pm A virtual reading by poet, essayist, and short story writer Lee Ann Roripaugh. Lee Ann Roripaugh is the author of five volumes of poetry, the most recent of which, tsunami vs. the fukushima 50 (Milkweed Editions, […]
“Why I Live At The P.O.”
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 26th, 2021
This story focused on themes of anger, jealousy (?), and happiness. I question the word jealousy because I’m not sure if it is the correct word to use to describe the narrator’s feelings toward her sister, Stella-Rondo. I think in a way, it is correct because the narrator seems to want to be treated the […]
My Thoughts on “Why I Live at The P.O.”
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 26th, 2021
There’s a few dynamics going on during this story, however one that is the most prevalent is between the narrator and the rest of her family. The start of this story makes it clear that there’s favoritism between the oldest and youngest child and it only continues throughout the entire story. Stella-Rondo threw blame on the […]
“In The Cemetery Where Al Jolson Is Buried” by Amy Hempel
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 26th, 2021
Everyone copes with grief in their own way, and we all discuss it differently as well. Amy Hempel certainly shows this with her narrator and the writing style of this story. Given the fact the narrator must watch her best friend die, you would think there would be emotional scenes and long dialogues. However, this […]
Exercise 3: Quilters
Posted in Exercises on Jan 25th, 2021