Oedipus Rex- Sophocles

This story is very interesting because I think I have read this when I was in high school. I really love this story because it has a lot of mystery and intensity with the fact that he thinks he kills his dad when he was younger. Also, he married his mother and had 4 children with her. His dad, knew that he was going to die because of the famous fortune tellers who tell the future. I think that this is very intense because just how mad Oedipus is with is father. And I also think that Oedipus got carried away with the fact that Creon is also in power and in reign. But at the end of the story, he got what he deserved.

Negro_ Langston Hughes

When I read this story, I was pretty impressed with how proud Hughes is in this poem. He is describing his culture with pride. He wrote this poem in the time of the reneissance of the African American commumity with their literature. Despite whether they are African Americans or another race, it is always good for people to be proud of their heritage. Sometimes, people are ashamed of wheere they are from because they are just ashamed of their culture. But deep inside, people have to be prouc of where they are from, because if they deny where they are from, then basically they are denying themselves.

On My First Son- Ben Johnson

This poem is so beautiful and so sad. In this poem, he talks about his son since his son died. I think a death is always something very hard to go through despite with the person, but it's even harder when it is a child that you raised and watched grow dramatically. I'm guessing the child died at a very young age, at the age of 7 years old. This is very harsh for a parent to know that their child died at a very yung age. I may not be a parent yet, but I still feel the pain of someone who had a kid that passed that died.

Marks Linda Pastan

I think this poem is very reasonable and true. Sometimes, you just get so caught up with people's critiques and that just puts you in a bad mood. In this poem, the author gets caught up with all the critiques from her family eveyday.In the begining of the poem, her husband starts to critique her cooking and her daugther with that she is just and "OK" mom, and her son that she is just an average mom. I agree with her that people critique too much and really don't see the good part of life. When it comes to critiques, I think that people should really look at the posiive parts first and then look at the critiques and tell them in a nice manner. People need to lear that by criticzing, it just hurts peole more emotionally.

Thief and the Dogs chpt 7- 12

Wow! So many things are happening right in the story. Said is trying to get revenge again with Illish, and it hurting the relationship that he has with Nur. I think that Nur is too nice to Said. All that Said wants to is get revenge, and he doesn't understand that Nur really cares about him and wants the best for him. She also wants him to get away from all this revenge. I don't think that Said is in love with Nur, but I think that he does have feelings for, but her feelings are stronger than the ones that he has for her. I think that he should learn how to control his anger with his revenge and he just forget abotu the revenge, and he should just get a better job to support his daughter.

A Clean, Well- Lighted Place- Ernest Hemingway

This story is a very interesting story because it's by an author that is very well known and have read some of his work. This story shows that some of the characters of this story are lonely. The story consits of 3 main characters: the old man, a young waiter and an older waiter. The old man, tends to be an alcholic and tends to keep on drinking before the cafe closes. As time goes by, the younger waiter wants to go home because he has a family and a wife at home, while the older waiter really doesn't have much of a life. He isn't married at all, and doesn't mind it. Later after the young waiter, he went home letting the older waiter not being able to go to sleep.

Tell Tale Heart By Edgar Allen Poe

This story I remember very well because I read this in high school. It was a very interesting to me though because Edgar's theme in writing is horror and scary. He wants to kill this old man because he doesn't like the old man's eyes. So ever since he decided that he wants to kill the old man. So when he decided to kill the old man, he started to plot his ideas for killing him. Such as knowing when he should go inside his house and start to plan out what he is going to do. When he is ready to kill the man, he kills him but he feels the guilt of killing him as he " hears" his hearbeat. After the policeman drops by, he starts to enterntaiment the policemen.After he wants the policemen out of the victim's house and he confesses he killed the men.

Lottery By Shirley Jackson

When I read this story, I was in schock on how this " lottery" is. She, the author's theme for this story is very cruel and crude. She first starts out as explaning in a sunny day in the summer time. She describes that this is a very small village in the 1940s. It also explains that this town is very traditional towards this particular town with a ritual they have. Everytime, they get together and pick someone from the family who will get sacrificed by their village. As they get together, a lady who has a family is being picked for the ritual. As she is being picked, she is being hit by rocks by the villagers. When they already know its going to be her, they start to get ready to throw her rocks At the end of the story, she starts to say " it's not fair" to the vilagers, but the villagers keep on hitting her.

The Thief and the Dogs chapter 4 & 5

After Said visits Rauf, he finds out that once again he is betrayed by him to, who is his mentor. He wanted to see about a job offered for him, but that was impossible because Rauf has changed as a person after Said got out of jail. He still wants to get his daughter Sana back in custody from his ex- wife. He meets this prostitute by the name of Nor. Nor wants to help out Said in all the ways that she can because she likes him very much and wants the best for him and wants to help him. She is a good person at heart, and is trying to accept him for all what he did in his past while he went to prison.

Everyday Use by Alice Walker

I have read this story before in my high school years, but when I read it again, I understood the real meaning of it. This story takes place in the south in the '60s era in the revolution of the African American community with the civil rights movements. It is a story about the important of family and culture. The main protagonists are Dee, Maggie and the narrator, who is the mother.Dee, who is the older daughter, is the "Marcia" of the 2 sisters. She is the pretty one, with pretty hair and with a pretty body. she went to college in Augusta. Maggie, who is the younger sister, is the lanky one, the one who considers herself a misfit. About a decade in the story, her house gets burned and it burns Maggie a little bit, while Dee just sits around the in the backyard. The mother, is a woman who has worked very hard to have what she has in her life. When she finds out Dee is coming to visit, the mom is afraid her daughter is going to critique her house. On the other hand, when she visited, she decided to learn more about her African culture and even got married and wanted to have some of the things for her home. When Dee asks her mom if she can have the quilt her grandma made, Maggie saids that she can have it, but at the end, the mother refuses that she keeps it. When Dee leaves, she ignores her refusal of the quilt to her daugther and tells her sister Maggie that she has to learn about her own culture.

The thief and the Dogs Chpt. 2

As the story gets more developed, Said gets himself into more drama than the one he already has. I sadly feel extremely bad for Said because he is doing his best to get back with his daughter. He goes later to the Sheihk to talk about his problems. The Sheikh gives Said advice and suggestions on what type of things he should do with his situations. He is still hurt that his ex-wife cheated on him with his best friend. As he talked to the Sheikh, he started to give him advice. As he started to get out, he noticed that he still remembers his ex-wife as the way that he always did when he has feelings for her and describing her in a very nice way as when he first met her. He feels that he is very alone, with no other friend to talk to.

The Thief & the Dogs chpt. 1

When I read this chapter, I was impressed on how dark a person's life can be. This man, who just got out of jail, was betrayed by his best friend and his ex-wife. He was charged for stealing in Egypt. He felt and was betrayed, felt very disoriented and sad taht his daughter didn't recognize her own father since last time he saw her she was a toddler. After he got out of jail, he noticed that his ex-wife, Nabawiyya, was already married to someone else, to Illish. He is depressed and heartbroken that his ex-wife is already married to someone else. He wants to try to get his little gir Sana back into the custody of the father, but the judge must decide whether she is going to the to the custody of the mother or the father.

Cathedral Raymond Carter

When I read this story, I believed this story had a lot ot different emotions rolled into one. First of all, when the author describes the blind man, I'm guessing that he feels kind of uncomfortable with the blind man, who is the wife's friend. I think that he felt uncomfortable with the blind man because maybe he felt jealous knowing that his wife knew this guy. But as they started to know each other little byt little, they knew that maybe they started to know each other better as they started to communicate with one another. After they started to talk, the blind man asks him to describe a cathedral, but the man doesn't know how to describe it to the blind man. When I first read this part, I was confused at first. But i guessed that maybe the man was a person who wasn't religious at all, probably making him an atheist.

The story of an Hour

This story I found very interesting. It is about a woman whose husband passed away. She was very happy that her husband passed away and she was very happy that he passed away. She died of happiness. She was very happy that he died. I'm guessing she was happy because maybe he treated her badly or was a bad husband. She had a ups and downs relationships with her husband. Her husband had a terrible railroad accident. After that, her friend Josephine came by and she told her the news that her husband passed away. She was a person who was probably at peace when her husband dies. She felt free and independent, making her happy.

Richard Corey- Edwin Arlington Robinson

When I first read this story, I didn't understand it at first. But once I reread it again, it made me realize how hard life can be. The protagonist in this poem, Richard Corey is a person who is well liked by people in his town. I imagine him good looking and a gentleman. He was very rich and had a lot of money and people wanted to be Richard because of his wealth and how lucky he is to have a lot of money. After I read this poem, it made me realize that people who have alot of money sometimes aren't happy with what they have. I predicted that maybe he felt very lonely in his life, despite with what he has. At the end of the poem, he decided to commit suicide by putting a bullet in his head. It made me a little sad about this, but this is a poem that shows a moral that people with fame and money can be unsatisfied in their lives too.

Invisible Cities

I think this story was very interesting and yet true and imaginary at the same time. I liked how detailed the author was in the stories and how he described each city. When I read this story, it made me realize that how this story is related to Miami. For example, with the story on the Cities & Eyes 5, it made me realized that Miami does have a " bipolar side" with its locations. For example, Miami Beach & Coral Gables are places where it is really beautiful, filled with beautiful people, places and cars. On the other side, if you go to the bad side of these cities, it can filled with homeless people and bad locations. Another story that I felt in touch with the story Hidden Stories Olinda because Miami is a city that never stops growing and has its effects as well too.