Distance

As the weather is turning
My mind starts to think
My brain feels like it's burning
My throat is in a kink

She is running through my head
Even though she is gone
I feel like I should be dead
Each day I'm more drawn

We are miles apart
The distance that kills
She's close to my heart
With so many thrills

Only time will show
I'll bring her laughter
As these feelings grow
It's her that I'm after

Simple Things

It's hard to believe
something as simple as that
can brighten my day
coming into the room
lying there on the bed
red bull and gum
can someone actually care
this is a confusing feeling
someone was thinking of me
this is all new
put together with a note
this is what it said
can't wait to see you
a smiley face came after
I knew at that point
that I was a goner for sure
theirs no one else like this
and it's her that I'm after

Comparison

A & P and Orientation are two short stories that have a lot of similarities and a lot of differences. I will be comparing both to understand the characters a little better and also to have a little better grasp on the stories themselves.

A & P is a little different in a few ways the fact that it’s all in a first person point of view for one thing. Also the manager in this is a lot stricter it seems like just by the fact that he kicks out these younger girls from his store just because of the way they are dressed which is a bit ridiculous. The writing style is different in this story. It’s told through the perspective of a person who is working there and there isn’t much dialogue between characters as much as just the thought process of the main character. This is similar because in this the entire time this clerk is judging these three girls walking through this store.

Orientation has an odd feel to the entire story as if the insight that the narrator is giving just makes you feel awkward. The narrator doesn’t give you much useful information on the job which is the same as A & P. You don’t get a great sense of the manager in this office but it seems like he doesn’t want to be bothered and doesn’t really care what his employees do to a point. The writing style in this is more commanding then anything the entire time the narrator is just telling information then you need to know a lot completely irrelevant to the job itself.

Both stories were good in their own sense I hope this brought up some points were these stories differ. To understand them even more I suggest reading them and comparing them.  

"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

Mrs. Mallord: Awesome it's a nice spring day out!!!

Mrs. Mallord: I really wish I could go outside but there is just to much to do.

Richard commented on Mrs. Mallerd's profile: I'm sorry for your loss Mrs. Mallord He was my best friend!
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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

Josephine: Hey we need to talk!!

Josephine: Hey ANSWER me!!!

Mrs. Mallord: Free!

Mrs. Mallord: Alright I'm coming down Josephine lets talk I feel a lot better, wait who's here?

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.