Wedensday and Friday Update!

Two Readers and Excellent Writers, Cathy and Dorthy

On Wednesday, we went over two short stories that had opposite forms of structure. Kew Gardens by Virgina Woolf was a story written with no structure. Many short stories consist of a few characters with only one of them that makes a decision. A reader will learn about the reason he or she made the decision, and the consequences of it. Where as Kew Gardens was like a play in a theater where characters come and go and are never seen again. It has a setting of Kew Garden, a park, introduced in the first paragraph, and all the actions that took place in the story are not connected at all accept that they take place in the park. The last paragraph of the story sums up the story with, "Thus one couple after another with much the same irregular and aimless movement passed the flower-bed and were enveloped in a layer after layer of green blue vapor..." On the other side, Pigs Is Pigs by Ellis Parker Butler is a story that follow the outline with an exposition, climax, and resolution. This story consisted of a two guinea-pigs in the beginning, 4064 in climax, and the ends without guinea-pigs. Both of these short stories are absolutely wonderful. What benefited us the most is how we were able to compare and contrast the stories. We highly recommend these stories to everyone.

Dorthy's Poem, Journey

On Friday, we had three wonderful poems that told us about the writer and what she went through years ago, and two of them about what they are facing today. It was certainly a blessing to be with the writers and hear the backgrounds of their poems. The authors were Dorthy (with her fifth poem!), Cathy, and Fay. And I brought in Solo, a non-fiction short story about a surfing trip in Sumatra. There two short stories for next week which are Man From the South by Ronald Dahl and Split Cheery Trees by Jesse Stuart.

Fay's Poem, My Ride With The Angels