Wednesday, October 28, 2009

short stories & GANO

I think short stories are interesting and we should do those more. Short stories are meaningful, and it’s fun to look for the clues that make them so meaningful. The author has to think before putting every word into their stories, because they are so short they have to tell their story in a few pages. The story that shows how the author used such techniques is “Beware of the Dog.” Throughout the short story the author put subtle clues in to show that the POW knew in fact he was a POW and not in a hospital. The author used things like how the character used his memory to remember how soft the water was in England. Where he was, the water was very hard, yet they all told him he was in England. Another story I think was interesting was “The Necklace.” I liked that short story because it told the story through a time period of over 10 years. It told how the family got into a bad situation by losing an expensive necklace, and they spend the next years of there life to make up for it. Then it fast forwards through time and shows how at the end, they realize that the necklace wasn’t really expensive, and they didn’t have to spend those years of there life like they did. As I did GANO last year, I know how difficult it is to write so many words. I am still considering to do it again, yet I don’t know for sure if I want to or not.

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