Blog post Introduction: A good man is hard to find is short fiction story written by Flannery O'Connor and was published in 1955. It is a great example of southern Gothic literature.It is story of a family, where grandmother insists his only son Bailey to go East Tennessee, instead of going to Florida because in newspaper article she read about an escaped convict Misfit progressing towards Florida. Grandmother dressed up and wore a hat with flowers on it and hide her cat Pitty in a basket in a car. Eight year old son John Wesley, daughter June Star and wife of Bailey accompany him to a trip. On their way to Georgia,grandmother tells stories of little black child, who ate his watermelon once.They stayed at Tower named restaurant owned by Red Sammy Butts. She talked about past days with owner and she is very judgmental. She also talked about a good man is hard to find. After wake up from her nap she talked about six column house and lied to their children that it do have secret panel. Due to excitement both their kids screamed and convince Bailey to get a dirt road to that house. At sudden grandma remember that house was in Tennessee and she pull his feet. As a result Bitty frighten Bailey and he loses his control on car. And car get stuck into ditch and children mother broke her shoulder. One car with three armed men stops. Three men come out of it and one of them was shirtless and they all have guns. At sudden grandmother remembers him, said “Misfit”. On his order his two partners Bobby Lee and Hiram took Bailey and his son John to woods and shoot them. Later on they took children mother, June Star and her little sibling to woods and shoot them as well. She ask him that he do not shoot a lady and give him a title of good man But At last was grandmother’s turn. When Misfit wore his son bailey’s shirt she called him his son as
well. And at last he shot her. Re-Genre Analysis: I use the genre of “found poetry-erasure” to explore three different scenes of the story. Poem#1 A scene where, grandmother didn’t want to go to Florida and trying to convince Bailey and creating horror in his mind about the Misfit. Title: Diversion of his attention away from Florida's trip plan: GRANDMOTHER didn't want to go to Florida Wanted to visit east Tennessee Seizing at every chance To change Bailey’s mind Was her only boy Sitting on his chair, bent over Sports section Look here, Bailey, “She said” “See here, read this,” “Here this fellow Call himself The Misfit A loose from the federal Pen Headed towards Florida You read here What he did to these people Wouldn’t take my children In any direction”. Bailey didn’t look up She wheeled around Faced Children’s mother A young woman in slacks, Innocent as a cabbage, With green head-kerchief Two points on the top Like rabbit’s ears. Sitting on the sofa, Feeding the baby. “The children Been to Florida before, “the old lady said” Poem#2 A scene where, grandmother had conversation with her grandchildren and first day of trip.Title: Entertaining with dramatic characters. Eight year old boy, John Wesley, Child with glasses, Said, “If you don’t’ want to go to Florida, Why dontcha stay at home?” Little girl, June Star said, “She wouldn’t stay at home to be queen for a day, Withouting raising her yellow head.” “Wouldn’t stay at home For a million bucks”. “All right, Miss,” The grandmother said. “Remember next time You want me to curl” “Hair was naturally curly,” June Star, said Next morning Grandmother was the first In the car Hiding a basket with Pitty Sing The cat in it. Didn’t intend to left alone house For three days Had on navy blue straw hat Bunch of white violets on the brim Navy blue dress In case of accident, Anyone seeing her dead Would know at once Was a lady. Poem#3 A scene where, grandmother present her white supremacy thoughts and had conversation with her grand kids. Title: Bias enriched thoughts Oh look at Cute little pickaninny negro child In the door of a shack Grandmother said, “Wouldn’t make a picture?” All turned Looked at him Out of black window He waved. “Didn’t have any britches on”, June Star said. “Probably he didn’t have any”, Grandmother explained “Don’t have things like we do” Would tell them a story If they were keep quiet Grandmother said. Rolled her eyes Waved her head Was dramatic. And said Once she was maiden lady Courted by Mr.Edgar Atkins Teagarden from Jasper,Georgia good looking man Brought her watermelon Every saturday afternoon With initials E.A.T She never got it One day She said, Nigger boy ate it Saw initials E.A.T John Wesley’s giggled John star Didn’t think it Was any good.
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Death of a man due to his words
Blog Post Introduction: This is written by Tobias Wolff, who is an American short story writer and novelist. It was published under “The Night in Question” stories. The main character is Anders, who is a book critic and not a very likable person. He detached from reality, angry and unsatisfied with this world.The first part takes place at college while he was lecturing students. The second main part of story takes place in a bank, where two robbers suddenly came in and ordered to fill the bags and maintain silence. But, Anders who is so critical of others did not able to keep his mouth shut, get shoted by one of the robber. Re-Genre Analysis: A man was shot to death by two armed robbers during bank robbery .On Monday afternoon near around 3:00 pm, a PNC bank was robbed by two armed robbers and a person named Anders was shot to death. As bank is about to close, Anders insists to gatekeeper to open the door. When he get into line, he saw a lady teller closed her position. A dark complexion lady start standing in front of him start looking at teller with hatred and broke off their conversation. Couple of minutes later, two armed robbers wearing black ski masks and blue business suits entered into bank. One of them, put his pistol on guard’s neck and warn him stay silent. They warn all tellers not to hit the alarm, if they did they all be dead meat. Meanwhile all tellers nodded their heads. A witness lady said, she heard “Oh, bravo,” Anders said “Dead meat”. And he turned to witness woman in front of him. “Great script, eh?The stern, brass-knuckled poetry of the dangerous classes”. She told him “ Please be quiet”. But he didn’t listened me. The man with shotgun pushed a guard and handcuffed him. And other man ordered tellers to fill the hefty bags. A witness lady said, Anders said to her “ Justice is done”. Other man with shotgun said him to shut his mouth. But Anders said to her. “Did you hear that? Bright boy’. Right out of The Killers.” She said, man with short gun said to him” What’s so funny, bright boy? You think I’m comical? You think I’m some kind of clown?” He just kept warning him, but Anders didn’t cooperate with his mouth. Then he poked his pistol under his chin and told him neither to look down nor into his eyes, only upwards.Then he kept noticing decoration on domed shaped ceiling. And he said Capiche and then burst into laughing. Then gunman lift pistol under from his chin and shot him at his right side of head. It exited from his right ear and shattered his right part of head. The choices he made didn’t helped himself and at last took his life. He was angry, unsympathetic man and had conflict with society and as well with himself. As writer mentioned that when he was child, he was non critical or non judgmental to others. He had quality of humanity during his childhood days. After investigating with his family, his journal and postmortem, reports says when he was shot to death, he didn’t remember his first love Sherry, his wife, his daughter, his mother, thousand of memorized writing. Only thing he remembered was his innocent childhood flashbacks of heat, baseball field, yellow grass, neighborhood boys, Coyle cousin from Mississippi, shortstop position. But matter is still under investigation, police is under the search of those two robbers. If you find any clue or information, please contact immediately to your local police. Blog Post Introduction: Redeployment is a short fiction series of a book, written by Phil Kay. It was published in 2014 and also won the Nobel prize. The main character in story named Sergeant Price, who was a former marine and served seven months in the Iraq war. He is living with his wife Cheryl .They adopted a old dog named Vicar. He portrayed a life story of a veteran after returning from a war to States in very fascinating way. It explains how soldiers see world differently than us and have many transitions come in their life. They suffers from post traumatic depression, mental instability, isolation, distrust and despair. Even after the narrator came home but still he is thinking about his previous life in Iraq war. A war put great impression on his mind that he is still struggling with his thoughts. Re-Genre Analysis: After returning back to the States, the perspective to view things changed completely. When Vicar fell ill due to his advancing age and he just keep throwing up then Cheryl decided to take him to Veterinary doctor. Then narrator, take him to lonely place when sun is about to set. He is thinking to shoot him at all sudden because he shot a lot of dogs at “Operation Scooby”. Still he is struggling with his thoughts. Then at sudden three bullets from his gun one after another pierce his head, lung and heart. Poor dog lost his consciousness and still trying to look at his master, to whom he was loyal for couple of years. Then sky is turning black and they both have blurred image of each other. The old memories of Vicar comes into his mind, the way he was licking him and his wife. They enjoyed a lot moments together. Even his tumors hurt him but he always love their company. Then after spending a night outside, when he went home. At sudden his wife saw him then start questioning him. But he didn't have any answer. Later on that day, when he tell her then she start sobbing. She locked herself into her room and didn’t come out for days. She had very strong attachment with her pet dog within these few years. He was her only companion when her husband left for Iraq .One day when she fell down from stairs and became unconscious. Then he was the only one, who barked so loudly and went on to street and gave signal to neighbors. Therefore, they came into house and call 911. then, she was moved to hospital and admitted in ER for two days. When she regain her consciousness then she transported back to her house. He was the one, who was waiting eagerly for her arrival. After that incident, she had strong bonding with him. Even though her husband refuse to adopt old age dog because they are hard to train. But still she adopted him. He had some grey hair and he was not active much. Her husband feels so bad and apologize her. But she never listen then didn't keep their relationship. Therefore he left home and memories of his absence occupies his thoughts. After all, he feel regret on his decision to shoot him. Later on, every evening he just go at same place where did he shoot him. He trying to find him but he came with empty hands. As days passes by, he get a call back for another mission. Then he spent couple of years over there. Even though he looks tough from outside but he is struggling from inside. On one end intense love, separation and memories of her wife and on other hand betrayal with his dog disturbs him endlessly. After spending several years as an active duty service veteran, he came back to his normal life, where he adopt many rescued dogs. The number of dogs increases day by day and month by month. Therefore, he expand the shelter home area for them. He do have variety of dogs of various age groups. He shower his endless love between them. Now he wants to be loyal with animals, no matter how unfair he did in past with animals. However, he didn’t contact back to wife but suddenly one day she just went to that shelter home, where he saw him. Now they both are on their late sixties. Her husband is fond of writing and he shares his story with one of his friend. Therefore, his friend who is mutual friend of Cheryl as well, handed his diary to her. Then she visits him and see how hard is working to rectify his mistakes. At last they embrace each other after decades of alienation. However he did made wrong choice but rest of his all life he made various efforts to rectify it. Redeployment explains briefly how life choice made by veterans impact their rest of all life physically and mentally. Blog post introduction: The lottery is a short fiction story based on how village people mindlessly following traditions without doing any argue or question. On the summer morning of 27th June, a village of 300 population organised the lottery, where every household head draw the lottery. At the end, an unlucky winner of the lottery stoned to death by whole village. They follow this tradition from years and performs this annually. Tessie Hutchinson drawn a paper slip, who had black dot on it. Therefore, she was declared to stoned to death.
Literary Analysis: This story is written by Shirley Jackson in 1948, displaying a picture of Rural America, where some traditions such as "The lottery" are blindly followed by their young generations, without asking any question. This lottery tradition is not about money. It is a dark secret of that town, where every year one life is taken for the prosperity of their crops and for their families. The black, old, worn out box is considered very precious to them, and they are against to replace them. Even though they replace wood-chips with paper slips. The story ends with a death of a lady due to ignorance of villagers towards human rights. Argumentation: Hazing is a current American tradition that shows similarities with the lottery tradition in the village. It is known as ragging in South Asian countries.It is prevalent in schools, colleges, sports and clubs. It do have from minor such as insomnia, consumption of alcohol, sexual acts,humiliation to major severe consequences such as death. It imprints a lifetime worse impression on an individual. A person may suffer from post traumatic stress and may declines his trustworthy relations with others. It impact on his mental health and leads to lack of interest in life. A person may even go to depression and may have lack of self control and self esteem. This bizarre behavior weaken the relationships and trust. Hazed students earn poor grades and suffers from physical health issues as well. It more frightening than lottery tradition where only one person lose their life every year but in hazing several individual loses their life every year and some of them have a long term effects. According to Center of student development report of Dayton university,“1.5 million high school students are hazed each year; 47% of students came to college already having experienced hazing. 55% of college students involved in clubs, teams and organizations experience hazing.” Narration: I will break away from a family tradition, if that tradition feel frightening or irritating to me mentally, emotionally, and physically. But I don't practice any that kind of tradition that harms me and or anybody else. I came from a society where females does not have equal right to opportunities and to make their own life decisions. But I’m fortunate enough that my parents brought me here and they didn’t impose any of their wishes on me. They already broke away from such traditions like early marriages of girls, patriarchy, dowry, their limited access to education. They encourage me for further education and prosperous future. But with some of my other friends, as their parents follow some weird traditions, they get denied of their rights to college education. As well they get married early and have just limited their progress in their life. http://www.toptenz.net/top-10-dangerous-traditions.php https://udayton.edu/studev/leadership/involvement/student-life/hazing/statistics.php Blog Post Introduction: This is a fascinating story of twentieth century written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, which describes the postpartum depression of a women. She doesn’t like the yellow color wallpaper of his new country house with several pattern of spots. Literally, in this story yellow wallpaper serves as a prison cell and she thinks a woman behind it struggling for freedom. Therefore, at the end she just tears down the wallpaper in order to freed her.
Literary Analysis: This autobiography was first published in 1892, in The New England Magazine. Jane is a main character, who suffers from mental breakdown followed by the birth of her first child. Due to her mental instability her condition was deteriorating deep down day by day. On other hand her husband John who is outstanding physician misdiagnosed her condition with hysteria and tell her to do rest. In addition her own brother, who is outstanding physician agrees with John decision regarding her condition. I believe that due to the sexism, she have to follow their advice. She is feeling so lonely therefore,she start writing journal in secret. So she can express her feeling and get escape from the world of reality. She don’t like her new room with yellow wallpaper and huge immovable bed. There are many spots on the wallpaper, which makes different patterns with daylight and moonlight. In addition, Jennie who is nurse, just take care of stay at home. This is another example,that indicates the male dominance society , where power of control only hold by male supremacy. Argumentation: She is trapped mentally and physically by yellow wallpaper and by her own thoughts.But emotionally she is trapped by her husband, who not allows her to leave that third floor room who have barred window at one end. She doesn’t want to live there for three months but her husband decision rule out. Male authority limits her abilities to make her own choices. She can’t live where she want. And at the end when she don’t want to leave that place her did not listen her. Back in the day women was required to agree with his husband and she didn’t have her own identity. This story depicts the women condition, how they were helpless and unempowered. Narration: Myself and society are ones who limits my ability upto some extent to make some important life choices. Considering myself, as I always do have fear of failure. As a result, sometimes I just stop trying. One of them is fear to drive and accidents all that stuff comes in mind before I just get into a car. On other hand society plays a major role in every individual’s life. Several times, “what people think about me” this thought disturbs me a lot. But in actual nobody cares. After battling with my thoughts, I reach to a point that, over thinking leads to unhappiness. I tried to keep myself busy so they negative thoughts don’t occupy my mind and end up my day with satisfaction. Blog post Introduction: This is a story of Chinese family where Lulu Wang is narrator and a story revolves around her grandmother’s terminal condition where "Ignorance is bliss" for them. She calls her Nainai, who is 5 feet tall women with grey hair. Nainai diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer and has given only three months to live. Literary Analysis: Lulu Yang is a writer, director and filmmaker. On 22 April, 2016 her podcast was published by "This American Life". She was born in Beijing China and moved to United States when she was little. She lives with her father and mother whereas her Nainai lives alone in old neighborhood of China. Her identical sister known as little Nainai lives at next street and she is Wang’s great aunt. Wang’s father moved to States when he was 8 years old and her uncle Hibin lives in Japan from 24 years. His son married to Japanese girl, who is completely unfamiliar with Chinese language. All of them are well known about Nainai condition but they didn’t tell her. However, Lulu’s father is known as smartest kid in the family, planned to go back to china and arranged a giant goodbye party in the giant wedding banquet hall . But Nainai is the only one who is kept ignorant about the hidden purpose of this party. They all tell her that it is wedding party of his grandson who loves a Japanese girl. They all were stuck to sorrow deep under but they pretend of being happy on that wedding event. This is very difficult time for a family, who is in fear to loss their Nainai. Argumentation: I agree with their family choice to deceive Wang’s grandmother because of their believe system that “Mental and emotional health are linked to physical health”. They made this decision based on her age. As a person get older, all of his body system starts shutting down. In addition, if they tell her then she might loss her hope to live and she couldn’t even live her last moments with joy. She might get depressed and as we know that depression is not good for health. It affects all organs of body and limit their tendency to fight with various diseases. Another possibility is that she might get admitted to a hospital where she started taking chemotherapy sessions. But her system couldn’t even cope up with such strong medications. Therefore, toxicity levels would be built up as human body gets older and dehydrated. In addition, she diagnosed at last stage of lung cancer and this cancer is metastasized so easily through bloodstream to other vital organs. She might die early because such strong medications weaken an immune system and a person get died even from minor infection. They made a clear choice so that she lives her last moments peacefully. Even though she had mastectomy in her early life but now she can’t make it chemo session again, due to her age. Narration: Sometimes in life, we have to made an important choice to tell someone a difficult truth or made an important choice to tell a lie that had a major impact on us or someone else life. It all depends upon a situation, culture and which country a person resides. I’m always going to speak truth in my profession of health care, no matter how hard it is but for the welfare of my patient. And this is a right of patient and he/she should be acknowledged about his/her medical condition and treatment. But if a patient is unable to take his decisions based upon his ability. So, I'm going to talk to those individuals, who are listed on his living Will or Durable power of Attorney. But If I lied, it may affect patient’s treatment or delay it. Therefore, by doing that violation, I might loss my job and it appear on my record for life time. |
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