"The Cask Of Amontillado"- Edgar Allan Poe

This story was really creepy, In the story Montresor wants revenge on Fortunato, it is unknown why. He tricks him into trying the Amontillado thats in his wine celler and basically buries him alive inside the walls. Montresor enjoys listening to the drunk Fortunato scream while he is building the wall up in front of him, which shows that he is obviously not mentally stable. This story was good to read beacause it keeps you wondering you want to know what happens next as the story unfolds

"Araby"- James Joyce

As we learned in class this story has elements of irish literature. The boy in the story wanted nothing more than to get Mangan's attention so he went to araby to buy her a gift. At the end he was dissapointed that he couldn't find anything for her. The last line of the short story says "Gazing up into the darkness I saw myself as a creature driven and derided by vanity; and my eyes burned with anguish and anger". I think the epiphany of the story is, he realized that love is not easy and not exactly what he thought it was, he was angry at the fact that he couldn't buy anything to win Mangan's heart.

"The Lone Ranger And Tonto Fist Fight In Heaven" Sherman Alexie

This story is about and indian born man who is in love with a "white" woman and he can not be with her because he feels as if he doesn't fit in in Seattle and in the world that she lives in because he is and "outcast"and he doesn't want to be in the indian reservation either. He always has these very disturbing dreams of the Indians and cowboys killing one another. The man is very lost in his life. He doesn't have a job all he does is hang out all day and watch game shows on tv and drink, until he tries to better himself at the end and he gets a job and stops the drinking.

I liked this story. I felt bad for the main character because he was lost in his life. And he was discriminated upon because he was indian. People would just look at him and be scared without even knowing anything about him, like the clerk in 7-11.

"The Hills Like White Elephants"-Ernest Hemingway

"Everything tastes of licorice. Especially all the things you've waited so long for, like absinthe."

To me this quote states that Jig wanted to have a baby for a long time and now that she finally is pregnant everything is going sour, the american basically wants just her not the baby, just for a good time. To most people licorice is not a good flavor, very bitter. I think Hemingway is using this as symbloism he is showing that the girls life with the american is not what she expected and wanted, but the complete opposite.

I did not like this story, the man in the story makes me sick for being selfish and not even caring about his unborn child, and from what we learned in class of the author I also do not like him.

"A Worn Path"-by Eudora Welty

This short story was enjoyable. There was alot of symbolizm, from the characters name Phoenix to the setting of the story. I actually had to read it twice because it was such a simple story but so much going on.

"Young Goodman Brown"-Nathaniel Hawthorne

I didn't enjoy this short story much because of the old english used. This made it very confusing for me to understand. I also didn't like the fact that the author did not make it clear why young Goodman Brown was going into the woods in the first place.I also dont like that in the end the author never explained if it was all a dream or it actually happened to him.

"The necklace"-by Guy De Maupaissant

I liked this story because it teaches a really valuable lesson that most of us need to know. Be happy with what you have because you can lose it all in a blink of an eye. This lesson is taught in the story with what happend with Mathilde.