The Yellow Wallpaper

As the story began, my first thought was that the house the narrator and her husband were looking through was haunted and the reason was for it being such a nice house and I found it very strange that no one had lived in it in so long. We immediately see that this couple didn’t have a great relationship since the woman becomes very depressed and relies on this one room with the yellow paper. She becomes very fixated and obsessed with this object. She even sees a lady trapped inside it. Do you think that the lady trapped, was actually her? She was basically getting more and more psychotic as the days passed by. Hallucinations was the biggest problem for her, since her imagination drove her more insane and all she wanted to do was stare at the yellow wallpaper. The author was very clever to make us believe that maybe there was something in the wallpaper, an also at the end of the story we find out that John supposedly faints at the end of this story. But many inferences such as her killing her own husband are made. Honestly I feel like she did, the author left it open for our imagination to wonder throughout the story.

The Cask of Amontillado

This reading was very dark and very interesting to read, many questions came to me as I kept going along. First of all how can someone be so vindictive enough to kill someone just because they offended you numerous times? I would understand if he had committed an awful act towards you but not just by saying a few words. Well in this story Edgar Allan Poe mysteriously hides the words that Fortunato had said to Montresor that had offended him a whole lot that it got to the point of assassinating Fortunato.  We could only make assumptions of the insults that Fortunato had said to Montresor; one of them was the way that Fortunato told Montresor that his family used to be very noble, basically stating that they are not noble at all anymore. Another insult I found was that when they were walking towards Fortunato’s death Montresor tells him that he used to be a Mason which is a Fraternity. But of course Fortunato does not believe him since he made a Mason hand gesture and Montresor was not able to recognize it. Why do you think that the author hides the insults that caused Montresor to kill Fortunato?  Why do you think Montresor commits this terrible act towards Fortunato? Do you think it goes far along more than just insults? 

The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven

I could really connect to the main character in this story, because as young adults we have the mistake of being in relationships that never really work out. When these relationships end, we feel very depressed and upset at all times. We sometimes feel like we cannot continue our lives without them. For the character of this story he had certain anger issues that made him break plenty of lamps when he got upset with his girlfriend. By these actions we could see that this relationship wasn't all that healthy. Maybe ending the relationship was for the better of each individual. Towards the end of this story we get caught on a very important question. Did they end up together? Because his girlfriend did call him to see how he was doing. Does it mean that she still loved him and wanted to be with him? I guess the author wanted us to be caught in the mystery of never knowing what happened. But we did know that he still wanted to be with her, and still had very strong feelings towards her. I liked this story because the main character was a college student that all of us could really connect with.