The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven

I thought this was a great story that illustrated not only the challenges of a Native Americans' struggle through an identity crisis but the struggles that anyone can go through with failure. while he was given a white boys education and the opportunity to be part of the white mans world, he was unsure about which world he wanted to live in. the discrimination and suspicion he faced along with the insecurity of success, drove him back in to the reservation he came from and into a depression from the sense of failure.

My favorite sentence in this story was after he lost to the white boy in basketball, ''The next morning I woke up tired and hungry, so I grabbed the want ads, found a job I wanted and drove to Spokane to get it". He was tired of failure and hungry for some sort of success, and he used the spur of the moment motivation to get himself out of his depression and move forward in his life. motivation and a drive for success

The Hills like white Elephants

I found the story very vague and the first time I read I had no idea what it was talking about. I read it 3 times til lI finally understood the story entirely.(I wasn't frustrated when I didn't understand it but I was confused which was why it was so much more rewarding when I did understand it) I thought it was kind of humorous the way the two character's conversation went around in circles, even though the subject they were discussing was anything but humorous, but these kind of conversations happen all the time where two people are discussing a very important topic but neither one wants to come out blunt out on the table and they just go in and out of the topic in a conversation.
I was disappointed with the way Jig came to the decision of going through with the abortion. She wasn't thinking of what was truly good for herself or the child but what was good for the guy. While he should be an important factor in making the decision, it should not have only been based on how he felt, but on how she felt and how the decision would effect their unborn child.

A Worn Path

I liked Phoenix Jackson's strength and her fearlessness in the face of danger. (ex. she tells foxes and wild animals to get out of her way!) she's so determined to to finish what she started that even when she struggles to remember exactly why she came to town, she pushes forward to accomplish her task. She exudes self confidence and bravery along the journey that isn't expected in an elderly lady and that demands admiration from the readers.

The Man In the Black Suit

I liked the way Stephen King made the story stretched and sluggish to keep to the pace of the old man telling the story. I also liked the the way he showed the old man's vivid and detailed memory of the man in the black suit in contrast to remembering his granddaughters name!

Young Goodman Brown

I thought Young Goodman Brown was kind of depressing. Here was this guy who suddenly finds out that every one he knows aren't who they seem to be. All those who he thought were holy and righteous, were suddenly made out to be dark and evil. Even if it might have been a dream, Goodman spent the rest of his life living by it as if it were reality and wasted his life away to it.

The Nekclace

I disliked The Necklace. there was almost a whinny tone of a woman who thought she deserved more in life for absolutely no reason. she wasn't born to high class, didn't marry high class and she didn't work hard to achieve a higher class. It says in the story that at the ball everyone noticed her and wanted to dance with her, which seems to raise the question as to why she didn't try to get noticed earlier on and marry into a higher station instead of letting herself be married off. i don't think her beauty at the ball had anything to do with real beauty, rather her self confidence and the way she held herself was what attracted others to her

The story of an hour

My favorite part of this story is the last sentence where the readers are the only ones who know the true reason for Mrs. Mallard death and the characters are left thinking the cause was that of joy.