I know this entry wasn't supposed to be very long, however, I wasn't sure where to start or what to write, so I just had at it, and this was the outcome:
Well, let's start with the story Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne. I really didn't enjoy this story, it seemed very long winded, and the story felt like it dragged on FOREVER!
From what I understood, the story is about a young man and wife who live in what would seem to be a morally corrupt town for the time period, they're taken off to the woods to be initiated into the cult that engulfs the towns people, and the main character loses faith in his wife, and the townspeople he lives with, and ends up second guessing all the people he comes into contact with.
I'm having a difficult time tying the guided questions in with the story. I suppose if the main character had given in to his wife's request to stay home, the events wouldn't have happened and he wouldn't have spent the rest of his life living in moral turmoil.
The next is What You Pawn I Will Redeem by Sherman Alexie. The story was written really well. It's about a homeless man's quest during twenty-four hours to raise nine hundred and ninety-nine dollars to buy his grandmother’s stolen powwow regalia back from a pawnshop that he came across. However the money he finds, earns, or is given is spent on himself or on the people who come in and out of his life. The story almost seems like a lesson in Karma, what goes around comes around.
I am not really a fan of poetry. I like stories, and books that are well written and filled with great imagery, but I really dislike that most poetry has to be picked apart and deciphered like hieroglyphics, because there is always some sort of symbolism or deeper meaning. So starting with The World is Too Much With Us by William Wadsworth. I didn't get much out of it other than his feeling of disconnectedness and discontent with the world.
The last of our reading assignment was Plus Shipping by Bob Hicok. From what I got it's about how our world has become so commercial and industrialized.
Good. There is something to be said for the fact that many bad decisions throughout history might have been avoided if a husband just listened to his wife.
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