A&P

A&P is about three guys who walk into a grocery store with their bathing suit on. Everyone in the store kept looking back at them. They were not sure what they saw was real. All three girls are described how they look and what kind of bathing suit they wore. Out of these three girls, one is described as the “Queen”; the other two follow her around while she leads them to places in the store. Sammy the boy at the cashier, also the one who narrates the story stares at the girls ever since he sees them there. The girls walk up to Sammy’s register once they have everything they want to buy. While they are waiting for their food to be ringed up, the store manager comes to them and tells them that they cannot walk around like that in a store. So he gives them advice to leave and dress up and then they can buy their stuff. The girls tell him that they do not see anything wrong with what they are doing. Sammy gets upset hearing his managers remarks about the girl; he tells him that he quits. Sammy does not realize what he did, he knows now that his life will be hard because of the fact he has no job and that his family is not the wealthy. I believe A&P is about how humans make certain choices in their live, some without thinking and some with thinking. Either way there are consequences we face upon the

Young Goodman Brown

Young Goodman Brown is a newly wedded man who says bye to his wife on their very first night together. He feels bad leaving her alone. He goes into a forest to meet someone, someone who knows about Brown’s father and grandfather. The journey through the forest Brown and the guy bump into many things that symbolize evil. Even when he comes home, he sees people worshiping the devil even his wife that he adored. Brown is really sad and becomes depressed thinking everyone is tied to evil. He does died at the end. I do believe everyone does something evil once in their lives, but some realize and feel guilty and try to go for a good path others just remain the same.

Everyday Use

Alice Walker’s short story is about a mother and her two daughters. The mother tells the reader how different these two sisters are from each other. The mother also talks to about the different aspects their way about heritage and traditions. Maggie is the younger one who isn’t education but has a very strong attachment to her heritage and traditions. On the other hand her older sister Dee who is educated, lives her life as a city doesn’t have the same feeling towards her. All she thinks about herself and how things will help her. Everyone should carry their heritage and traditions to generation to generation but along with we should understand the values of it has well.

A Worn Path

A worn path is a very loving short story. It is about a grandmother taking a journey through the woods to her sick grandson. Her name is Pheonix which is a known to be a very strong bird. Just like the bird the grandmother is strong. She bumps into a lot of things in her way but she does not fear anything. The woods become very familiar to her even while she struggles every time. The woods represent the hardship people encounter in life. The season which is known to be Christmas in the story also represents caring and scarifying for those who matter the most. It is a very good story, I enjoyed a lot reading it.

A Good man is hard to Find

A good man is hard to find is about a family going on a road trip. The main characters are the grandmother and the misfit. The grandmother is very challenging; she doesn’t have any considerations for anyone but herself. The misfit has been through a lot; he also doesn’t care for anyone because of the pain and suffering he went through has him very cold hearted. The car gets into a car accident and therefore the people that help the family out turn out to be killers. The murder does kill everyone and the grandmother as well even though she was the last one to be killed. I think everyone should live a good life as possible rather than fearing it.. because life has no guarantee.

Hill like White Elephants

Hill like White Elephants was a very confusing story. It was about a conversation to people have which you can say boyfriend and girlfriend. They are at a train station where they both go into a bar and sit. While they sit at the bar they have a very strange confusing conversation. The conversation is about some operation. I was not quite sure what the operation might be about. The girl was to be on Jig. The girl is confused and turns and looks at the mountain. These mountains symbolize two different paths for her. I guess she isn’t sure what path she should for the operation. At the end of the story we still are not told what the couples did. Did the operation complete or did not?? Where did they go, did they take the trains or what?.. I am sure whatever the operation was, it was not easy!

Hill like White Elephants

Hill like White Elephants was a very confusing story. It was about a conversation to people have which you can say boyfriend and girlfriend. They are at a train station where they both go into a bar and sit. While they sit at the bar they have a very strange confusing conversation. The conversation is about some operation. I was not quite sure what the operation might be about. The girl was to be on Jig. The girl is confused and turns and looks at the mountain. These mountains symbolize two different paths for her. I guess she isn’t sure what path she should for the operation. At the end of the story we still are not told what the couples did. Did the operation complete or did not?? Where did they go, did they take the trains or what?.. I am sure whatever the operation was, it was not easy!