"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.