"A & P"

“A & P” was written in a man’s prospective, the female role in this short story was little to almost none at all. The most reaction you have with the females that it was describing was when two of them had small lines at the end of the story. This story just picked apart at these three female character physical and social status which had to be assumed just by looking at them. In all honesty this story just capitalizes on what men do still to this day and this was written almost 50 years ago so it’s a little sad this mentality hasn't changed. From the instant the women walked in the cashier couldn't function while he was doing his job he just watched them and was day dreaming about them and what their lives were like. At the end the cashier who watched these females all through the store helps them at the register which he was like any other guy or at least how I pictured it. His manager then wakes over there and rudely embarrasses them by bringing attention to the fact that they were in bathing suits which was rude on his part. The cashier was trying to stick up for these females who were just embarrassed but he did it not to necessarily stick up for them but to make himself look like the hero in their eyes but his plan backfired because they already left so he had to go through with it anyways. So he did try to redeem himself from horribly judging them but still for the wrong reasons. This entire story was straight from a man’s head and still today this is what goes on which is not okay.   

Mrs. Mallord comments

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Mrs. Mallord: WHAT HAPPENED!!!!
Richard: Your husband died

Mrs. Mallord: I'm lost looking out this window

I guess this brightened my day a little

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Orientation

Alright so pay very close attention as we walk in here this is the main office, remember where this is at you’ll come here often. In the office is also the tool room which before you grab a tool from the tool room you need to check it out and make sure the sergeant on duty okays it or you will get a negative counseling statement. As we walk down this hallway on the right is the bathroom, be sure to keep this spotless because it’ll make your job easier at the end of the day because I’m not doing it I’ve been here too long. You will report to your squad leader, he is in bay 1 he’s not the brightest and yells a lot about pointless stuff but not everyone can get a good squad leader like me. By bay 1 is the chiefs’ office, you won’t go in there, if he needs you he’ll find you. This sergeant here just got promoted so he’s on a power trip so stay away from him unless you want to do useless tasks and get yelled at, I guess that’s up to you.

                You need to record everything you do in a day, hours you worked on it, what was wrong with whatever you worked on, how you fixed it, and what parts you needed to fix it. Turn this sheet into your squad leader every day. You need to work hard every day for the entire day if you’re not we will find something for you to do, and believe me you probably won’t like it. Outside here is where all of the vehicles you will be working on are at, I won’t be helping you there I have a different M.O.S. then you do so you’ll be on your own so have fun and try to stay out of the way, also show respect to higher enlisted even if they don’t deserve it. It causes a lot less pain in the end if you just follow these instructions.

A good man is hard to find, Southern grotesque

                The story a good man is hard to find is so grotesque because it starts out like a normal trip that a family would take and it turns bad very quickly. There are many things in this story leading you off the trail of what is going to happen in this story. As it starts there is so much hope that they are going to return and what makes me think this is the grandma writing the mileage on the car before they left. This story doesn’t start turning bad until they wreck there car in a ditch, which is right after the route that the grandmother sent them on was wrong, after they wrecked a car happened to drive by and there were three men and they got out. The family started to get uneasy when they saw guns on their hips. These strangers started to seem like they were going to help them and said the car would take about 30 minutes to fix. Then the grandmother realized why the person looked familiar it was the misfit. This is when the story starts turning more grotesque, it goes from happy family vacation to a nightmare where this family is being separated and killed. The family is killed off one by one until the only person is left is the grandmother she begs for her life and even calls this murderer her baby, once this has happened he shot her. This is so grotesque because there was no emotion in this killing and the family had done nothing to deserve this, so in the end the family seemed hopeless.

The Lottery

Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery" concerns itself with the concept that it can be acceptable to require the individual to sacrifice for the greater good. This sentence is true to a certain extent, is it really acceptable in any case to kill someone? After reading this passage that question keeps running through my head. What is so important that the people in this village need to murder someone once a year for? So in that question it’s hard to say that it was for the greater good because we have no idea what it’s done for. Being in the military it’s the same battle, you have a constant voice in your head asking is this the right thing to do. I have many friends that have been deployed who have been put in horrible situations and they are still asking the question was it worth the sacrifice of one of the men. The circumstances will always be a factor in that sentence that was the sacrifice for the greater good?