Recitatif

This story has some very deep characterization. The two main characters Twlya and Roberta have very rounded personalities. They both come from different abusive parents. Twlya's mother is an immature parent who only cares about herself and isn't very thoughtful about her child. This makes Twlya very annoyed when she visits showing a maturity in this young girl. Twlya mother is also a racist so she is a confused girl until she meets her roommate. Roberta comes from a bible lover mother who is not very nice. She also isn't very thoughtful about what her child likes to eat and we see this when she brings chicken. This makes Roberta a very nice girl who is very picky about the food she eats. Later on they share old times and experianced hardships together. They also move in on with their lives and get married/have kids. The older girls at the shelter were simple characters. They were the older girls who were bullys. The other kids didn't play much of a role in the story but they also were flat characters in that they only didn't like the girls because they still had parents.

Araby

This story is a about love and how it can destroy us. The boy goes to the bazaar for this one girl he loves. I think that the story has good characterization. The father has a flat personality which his trait is one of forgetful and not caring. His girl is also one flat character. She is the perfect girl that never notices you. However, the main character is a one. He is in love with the one girl but at the end he is very mad at himself. He feels as though he is allowing himself to be fooled into doing all these things for this girl. Like when he is simply being nice to the lady at the store by looking at her jars with interest. The girl is doing the same thing to this boy. Also the lady at the store is another flat character. She is a person who is cheerful because she has to be for work...a hard working person is her personality trait.

The Owl Creek bridge

This story starts off with this man who is being hung for trying to burn a bridge. He is for the south and federal troops are hanging him. He is a plantation owner and a gentleman. However, as they hang him he gets this hallucination. He believes that he breaks free and swims down the river. He dodges bullets and runs all the way back home across the lines where he is still safe. However, at the end of the story it says that he is dead. His last moment was just a dream and the last thing he thought of was his home. This story shows the struggle of life and death and how his great escape was only a dream. He saw the end of life and only could think of the life he so badly wanted to keep.

Girl

Plot is a series of events that happen in a narrative. This story seems to be going from one piece of advice to another. It seems to be a story that puts fear into this girl. The person saying all these things calls her a slut to say she should not do this. Basically this story is a series of advice that is putting a girl in her place. How she is supposed to act and such. The advice seems to put the girl down and harm her sense of equality.

A Good Man Is Hard to Find

This story takes place with this family going on a trip in the car. They are leaving Tennessee and going through Georgia. Now this is important because they are natives to these states. However, the kids say it sucks. This I believe shows the difference between the old days and the new ones pushing in. I think this story is trying to show how the old makes way for the new in a grudging way. I point of View is 3rd person Objective. I didn't like this story as much but my second read through made me like it a lot more.

Hills Like White Elelphants

This story was about a woman who is pregnant. An American man is trying to convince her to have an abortion. She doesn't want to have one and shows a lot of stress in the decision making. The point of view is from a 3rd person point of view objective. At the end she says "I feel fine...There's nothing wrong with me. I feel fine." To me she seems to not be fine. She repeated the iam fine part and this isn't an easy situation. I think the story was very good and had interesting points on how your life can change in a blink of the eye.

The story of an Hour

My first read through the story was very interesting. I was having a hard time understanding what happened to this woman and if she died from a heart attack or joy. At first I thought it was a heart attack. However, reading this story a second time I believe that she died from joy. She didn't die from the joy of her husband being dead but from the joy of being free. She could finally rest and be herself. She might also be happy that she will see him in the after life. I had a hard time choosing which one i liked so i just chose both for the theme.