This week we had to do our first paper. We had to comapre ourselves to one of the characters we read about in one of our stories. I compared myself to the lady in "The Yellow Wallpaper". I thought this was going to be a hard paper to write about but once I actually sat down and thought about what I wanted to say my ideas just started to flow.
          I really didn't like the idea of reading my story aloud to my group members. Once we got into groups and started to like the feed back that my group gave me about ways to make my paper better.
  

This week in class we read a story called "Hills Like White Elephants ". I found this story to be very strange because it really didn't tell you what the story was about you really had to guess. My thing about the story was if she was pregnant, why was she drinking a beer? At that time she really didn't know if she was going to keep the baby or not. I wish the story would have gave more details instead of having to guess what was going on. I really didn't understand what the title had to do with the story. What do you think?

This week in class we read a story called Everything That Rises Must Converge by Flannery O'Connor. This story was about Julian and his mother. Julian was a college graduate, who wanted to become a writer. He was selling typewriters until he could write a book. Julian was not racist but his mother was. He had to take her to her reducing meeting at the Y every Wednesday night. They rode the bus to the Y and that Wednesday night a black man got on the bus and the mother was hoping he did not seat beside her. He went and sat at the back of the bus. Then at the next stop a black lady and her son got on the bus and the black lady sat beside Julian with that same purple valet hat his mother had on. The little boy sat beside Julian's mother. The little boy was acting up on the bus and his mother grabbed him and told him to behave. When the black lady and her son got off the bus Julian's mother was going through her purse trying to find a nickel to give the little boy but all she had was a penny. Julian told her not to do that. She tried to give the little the penny and his mother turned around and said we don't take pennies from anyone and he hit Julian's mother with her purse. After that it seems like Julian's mother dies but it really doesn't say. This story was a little strange to me.

First Blog Week 1

Hello my name is Keondra Jones. I am new to blogging, this is my first time ever blogging. This week in class we read three stories How to become a writer, The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, and The Yellow Wallpaper. These stories we read I found them very interesting. The stories really made me think because I felt like some details of the stories were left out. After, each story we discussed the things that happened and that help me get a better understanding of the stories.