Young Goodman Brown is a story that can be related to even in the 21st century. The entire story is about how a young man goes through a horrible ordeal one night in woods. He goes through this entire ceremony and when he finally comes out of the woods back to his home he cannot decide if what just happened was reality or a dream. He soon loses ( Read more... )

I think it sounds weird but I actually liked A Good Man is Hard to Find. I read this story my senior year of high school in my English Class. I liked it then as well and reading it a second time just further intrigued me. I like this story because even though it is a very sad ending it some what shows you things that everyone should know. The ( Read more... )

I really liked the short story Happy Endings. I took different situations and showed how everyone has the same ending. The beginning and middle can be completely different but everyone ends up the same way. I thought it was neat how the author made it all work together. How the people were all the same but they went through different situation ( Read more... )

This is What It Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona, is a story that shows how important family and traditions are. These boys are traveling across the nation the pick up the father’s ashes and his few belongings that were left behind after his tragic death. The father had left many years before but they were still willing to go get his ashes so he ( Read more... )

 A Warn Path has so many aspects to it that you really have to sit down and look at it for what it really is. One of the things you see is that some people will do anything that they have to do for the ones they love. The woman is willing to walk as far as she has to walk to get the medicine her grandson needs to survive. It kind of seems like a ( Read more... )

In the Yellow Wallpaper the narrator is a women dealing with an illness. She writes in her journal about how her husband and doctor and John is treated her like her worries and concerns do not mean anything. He acts as if she is just being paranoid about everything. He soon tell her she sound not write in her journal anymore however she soon ( Read more... )

A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings was a very good story. However there is so much cruelty in this story. When the man arrives the child starts to get better like he is the child’s guardian angle. The people just looked over this fact and locked the man up in a chicken coop to make more money. He was the only reason that their child was alive and ( Read more... )

Greasy Lake is the story of some boys that think that it would be a good idea to try their hand at being bad boys. Every guy thinks that it would be a good idea for them to try their hand at being bad. They always think that being bad will get them something better. Like it is a good thing to be a jerk and go around hurting people and doing ( Read more... )

I did not like the story A Dolls House. I did not like Nora because she was a complete idiot in my opinion. She tries to justify all the mistakes she has made by saying that she was doing it all to save her husband. If that was true was true then why didn’t she stop spending money on pointless things. Even after she was in debt she kept the ( Read more... )

I really liked this play because I think it showed that family is really the only thing you have. Yes, Creon was Polyneices’s uncle and he made a law that said no one could bury him but his sister came to his rescue. I have to give her credit though because she was brave enough to go against everyone and give her brother a proper burial. Her ( Read more... )