Everyday Use - Alice Walker

The infamous Alice Walker blesses readers throughout the world with this text. This confusing story is about the new school vs old school in a broad sense. New school Dee or "Wangero Leewanika Kemanjo" is Dee in her all most natural 100% self. She leaves her moms safe haven (read: home) goes to the city and returns a much more experienced , educated, and self worth knowing individual than she previously was. This short story is best deserving of a visual representation, reading the text in itself by itself doesn't suffice!

A good man is hard to find - Flannery O'Connor

"A good man is hard to find" is a sad,funny and entertaining read to say the least. O'Connor leaves so much more than what you read to be understood and interpreted. He hides clever clues within the story all throughout, starting with the title. The title although seemingly regular or, bland by my standards has a hidden meaning that helps reveal where this story is going/theme. the title "A good man is hard to find" by itself is very vague, you cannot tell if this story is going to be a love story or something like that. It is not until i read an analytical review from someone else that i discovered the title is a short excerpt from a song and the following lines are "but you always get the other kind". Once i discovered that it opened my mind to more hidden meanings and cleverly placed clues throughout the text leading me to alternate meanings to what seems like the obvious.

The lesson by Toni Cade Bombara

the lesson by toni bambara is a interesting read, it details an account of a day in the life of a presumably young woman. The reason i say young is because throughout the many lessons taught in the story, the narrators response or lack there of to the many scenes proves that the narrator 1) has no 'real life issues' such as rent, etc and also the narrators only concern with hanging out with her cousin and having a good time, another detail we get is the narrators lack of having her own money , and selfishness with the money (she kept the remaining money from Miss Moore and she didn't even tip the cab driver a measly 10% of the total cost of the trip.) The narrator also has no idea the value of 'real money' real being figurative, when Miss Moore suggests this to them the narrator mentally thinks Miss Moore takes them for a fool, which ironically she is a fool because she missed the whole point of that question.

ernest hemingway "Hills like white elephants"

This short story has so many interpretations I simply do not know where to start. at first i thought, the story tells of a couple who doesnt really gets along and is awaiting a train at a train station to head somewhere. Ernest lets us know this couple frequently travels as their luggage has many labels from all the hotels they have resided at. The couple has a long interesting dialogue in the middle of the short story. The couple seems to avoid problems and apparently are going through a lot. Ernest details how they get along, although I can't confidently say they never get along, it would seem so, whenever tensions get high they reach "common ground" , the guy seems to be very convincing and avoids confrontation by assuring the girl (Jig) that he's willing to do anything she wants to do, although he never actually wants to do what she wants to do, he just tells her he's fine with her choice and when she tries to tell him what she wants he just says "but look at things this way, its good this way, you dont like it this way"

Kate chopin the story of an hour

hello fellow classmates and teacher, im going to keep this short and sweet [or bitter?] and to the point.
Louise is a whore. she is a whore who died of a heart attack [LOL]
this story was an interesting and refreshing read. Louise died of a heart attack the second she saw her what she thought was dead, husband walk through the door. Like Kate says " It was only yesterday she had thought with a shudder that life might be long" and the constant repeating phrase of ""Free! Body and soul free!" this one was laid out in plain text [maybe not too plain] that she couldnt live another day married to her husband whom she was more often than not NOT IN LOVE!