Reflection #4 "Girl"

This was simply a weird short story that I read, I cannot say I understood it completely. The story has a certain flow, like if it was a song, it repeats and repeats again, but in a way you'd think that, THAT would make it dull, but it does not, the author wrote it like that with a purpose. Even tough I founded it weird and did not understood it completely there was something, that I still cannot put my finger on it, that captured my attention. A mother was repeating to her daughter what to do, how to do it, when to do it and why she should do it that way. There were to parts that I did not understood very much, one was why she would keep on telling her daughter not act like "the slut she was so bent on becoming"? First of all, what kind of mother talks to her daughter that way? What was she thinking? The only logical explanation that I've could think of, was that "the thief judges for his condition", maybe the mother was a slut and knew that her daughter had it in her too. She was telling her daughter how to be a "better" women, duties in the house and obligations as a wife. She kept on and on telling her, but at the end it shocked me and It is the time that I am still trying to figure out what was she trying to say. The women tells her daughter "always squeeze bread to make sure it's fresh"; the daughter asks: "but what if the baker won't let me feel the bread?"; the mother says:"you mean to say that after all you are really going to be the kind of woman who the baker won't let near the bread?". This is like a contradiction, first she is telling her daughter not to be a slut and then (I am trying to read between the lines because I think she said) "after all aren't you going to be the slut". This is the part that confused me, the part that I am still trying to figure out because it can be interpret in many ways. If I could sit down and have the chance to talk to the author of this story I would like to ask her these questions...

Reflection #3 "The Storm"

This was an interesting story, not the kind of reading that I usually do, it reminded me about the television novels that we see every day. The story about two unfaithful spouses, that for a moment of passion, adventure, desire and for being weak in the moment of temptation they commited a mistake, adultery. Alcee was the famous "play boy" lover that seduced and won the love of Calixta. Bobinot and Clarisse are the two victims of the disloyal actions that made their partners. In the benning I taught the story it was going to be about the catastrophe of a storm, but then I was later shocked when I realized the course of the story. I think the author uses the storm as a symbolic term, I think that the storm that he really meant to talk about was the incident of Alcee and Calixta. Because in the ending he said ironically "so the storm passed and every one was happy". Sure!!! every one would be happy because they did not know what happened between Alcee and Calixta. This kind of behaviour is not acceptable and is very dishonest. I think that if you do not love some one, your feelings for the person have changed and you have commited a mistake that could not be resisted, you should tell it to that person, at least you owe him or her that. Even tough I am not sure I would stay with that person and it would hurt me a lot, I would like to be honest and tell me what is happening. I was appalled by the way the two of them kept on their lives very normal, as if nothing had happened. Not even a remorce of their concience, this are the things that put your mind to think and ask yourself, what is happening with this world? I know this are things that happen, it could happen to anyone, but that does not mean is good nor acceptable. I did not hate it, but if I'd knew what was it about and how it would end, I would had not read it. I dont find entertaining nor amusing the infidelity and dishonesty, so I do not support it and by reading this crap I think I am supporting. Mistakes happen, that is part of life, but I have always believed that you can make it better, you can correct the errors that you make, something can always be done. And another thing "you dont do what you dont want somebody else to do to you".

Reflection #2 Response of " A Good Man Is Hard to Find"

I am not much of a reader, but I read the story " A Good Man Is Hard to Find" and although there were some things I did not understand, I liked it very much. It was a shocking story, it puts you to think, question yourself and ask, why does things happen when they happen or why do they happen. Well, at least many of does questions were in the mind of the so called Misfit. I identified a lot with the feelings of the Misfit, since he reminded me of a person in my family that I care for, very much. The same pride and stubbornness that does not help them think with a clear and more understanding mind. I think is very sad that a person can think and act the way that he does. A person that thinks and acts that way must be a person full of prejudice and low self-esteem, that is simply not normal nor healthy. Faith is about believing and trusting even though you do not see it. That Misfit lost his faith and love for God. The terrible thing is that he knew he was doing it wrong and he did it anyway. The ending really surprised me, I did not think it was going to end the tragic way it did. I have always been taught in church and in my house that we should not question God's doing and that was the first thing that the Misfit did wrong. I believe God gave us life, created everything and everybody, so he is the only one with the power and authority to take the life out of somebody away. As I have been told before "not a leaf falls of a tree without God knowing about it". Everything happens for a reason, with a purpose because God has the control of every little detail of our lifes. In the beginning of the story when I read the tittle I thought the story had to be about all the bad desicions that us girls make when we choose a guy because "Good Man Are Hard to Find", but then it turned out to be nothing like that. It was an interesting story and I can say that I learned that with humility, trust and faith completely in God everything will be all right, and when you think it is not going to be okay, trust me it will, just when you think your falling down, "he holds you and lets you know he is there".