The Lottery

Well this took me by complete surprise. The story talks of the towns people gathering around for a lottery, which is today known for winning a prize, like money. The kids pick up rocks and put them in piles, which i thought was just something childish to do. Then the men and women gathered with their family, and Mr. Summers came with the black box and called out all the names for them to come up and grab a piece of paper from the box, but can't look at them right away.  Who ever gets the correct one wins! After Mr. Summer calls all the names they can finally look. This is the part that I figured out something was wrong. Everyone was hesitant about opening their papers, which in a lottery for money most are anxious to. The winner of the lottery turns out to be Bill Hutchinson. Then his wife starts freaking out that it wasn't fair, which obviously ment that something wasn't right with this 'lottery'. Then they entered the names of the family on to pieces of paper to draw again. Then the true winner is his wife, Tessie. All of a sudden, everyone is starts throwing stones at her. Quite the lottery winner. This didn't make any sense, because why would they hold a lottery to kill or hurt someone in their village. Did they believe it was some sort of sacrificial ritual? Other towns had done it as well, so what was going on?

Young Goodman Brown

This story begins as a love story and him having to leave for a meeting of some sort. When Goodman Brown talks of having to leave Faith I first thought he was going to a meeting for something bad, like he was involved in something bad that he didn't want Faith to know about. When he arrived at the forest I figured he knew the man, but the man said he knew his father and grandfather which was freaky. He also had a cane that had a snake on it that was realistic and could help him get to his destination faster. It seemed as though he denied the devil or a temptation of a devil. Next Goodman Brown ran into a woman he knew  but revealed herself as a witch. This seems like a symbol that he shouldn't trust everyone he knows to say they're Christian.  Then I believe he is tempted and teased by using Faith to lure him, because he hears her voice and find her ribbon. At the ceremony he sees many people he knows and his father pressing him forward, but his own mother holding him back. Maybe the mother could be trying to help him and act as a gaurdian angel. Finally, when he up there with Faith he tells her to look up to the heavens and resist the devil.  He then is alone and when heads back home he refuses to greet the people, because he sees them as evil. He even snatches a little girl so she isn't tainted by them. I don't believe he was completely insane for it, but maybe had a vision he believed to be a sign of God to warn him and help the people in the village.

The Yellow Wallpaper

As I read  The Yellow Wallpaper, it seemed to drag on slowly, as the women herself slowly revealed she was going crazy. At first it seemed like she was just sick and he husband was admitting to it cause he was so concerned with his work in town that he didn't really care to listen. Then the story shows him to really care, but she becomes suspicious of him. The part that bothered me was, why was it such a big deal that she HAD to be in that specific room? Especially since she was so uncomfortable in the room you'd think her husband would just let her switch if she was just going to be there for the summer. There could be a hidden plot behind the husbands action. Perhaps she's actually in a hospital to help her. There are bars on the window and they don't like her to leave, but then again the husband stays the night with her.

Another part of the story that was intense was the fact that she was so obsessed with the wallpaper and there being something moving within it, she started acting like everyone else wanted to figure it out, but she wanted it to herself. She says she caught  John and Jennie looking at the paper. She thought they wanted it but she  wanted to find it out all by herself. In the end, she becamen one with the woman who was 'in the wall, creeping the garden.' It was her own reflection. Then she tore down the wall paper and locked her huband out. It brought up something with about a rope that she kept hidden and at first I thought she was planning to try and capture the woman in the wall, but it'd end up being her and she'd kill herself. Though, after that the husband came into the room as she was crawling around tearing down the paper and he passed out. This I still don't understand why he fainted. She tore down wall paper... What's the big deal?

The Tell-Tale Heart

Of course he doesn't have the mind of a mad man. I mean every sane man stands ina door way for hours to peek their head in a person's room before they decide to kill him.I think it takes talent, in a very creepy way, to be that patient for hours to get in a person's room. I'm not sure about the eye, does he have a fake eye and that's the reason it bothers him so much? A vulture's eye? As the story goes on and he tries so hard to convince us that he's not mad, he gets so caught up in proving it that it makes him more insane. He plans the killing then cuts him up into pieces and replaces the boards in the floor. Then it comes to the point he proving he's sane to the cops that he can't handle it and becomes paranoid. He hears the man's heart the same as when he hears it before he killed him.Which tells the tale of the man's heart. It' makes sense in the title, but something about the is important to, because it's what drove him to kill. This deffinately keeps your attention throughout the book.

A Rose For Emily

A Rose For Emily twists and turns in many directions that no one can honestly predict coming. The story talks a lot of Emily and her father. It begins starting at with a brief look of her death. Then part of the story circulates around the father dying, leaving her alone even till the time she's 30. Not even a supposed suiter there for her. What a butthead. Though, later he may have chosen the right route in ditching or else it may have been him lying dead in her bed. I'm just curious of the part that talks of Emily's great aunt succuming to insanity. By the end of the story I believe Emily had gone, or been, insane possibly cause of genetics from her aunt's side of the family. If you say someone who kills a person before a preplanned marriage, then just never comes out of their house until they die when they're 74, not to mention living with the corpse in their bed wasn't a looney. I'd call you a looney! The story leaves many things unanswered and open for someone to image what had really happened. It states that the towns people say Homer "wasn't a marrying man", so perhaps Miss Emily wanted to marry him, but he objected, which led to her poisening him. Then she'd lay with him after he died. Another ending mystery is her servant Tobe opens the door for the people, then walks out. "Never to be seen again." dun dun dunnn.
Interesting story. Certainly nothing I'd ever image coming up with by myself to write about. Unless it was a true story, which would be crazy/creepy.
**--- (2 of 5 stars)