Response To A Clean Well-Lighted Place

In the story there is two very different waiters and a old man.  One is a young, impatient, selfish, and rude waiter.  The other one is a old, patient, polite, and respectful waiter.  Then there is this old deaf man who is drinking at the cafe.  The young waiter just wants to leave the restaurant and close up.  He doesn't want the old man to keep drinking.  On the other hand, the older waiter can connect to the old deaf man because he is old himself too.  The old waiter connected to the old deaf man because he felt at a time that he couldn't sleep and was depressed as well.  The old waiters personality is sort of happy on the outside, but crush and alone on the inside.  The young waiter's personality is rude and selfish on the outside, but on the inside he is just really tired and wants to go home.  The cafe represents a safe and secure place for the old deaf man because that's where he feels he can be himself and doesn't feel alone there like he does at home.  

When I read the story A Clean Well-Lighted Place, I didn’t feel as sympathetic to the old man because there is no music in the background.  The music plays a big role in the videos because they set a sympathetic and sad tone towards the end.  In the beginning of the video the music sounds sort of scary and suspenseful.  The light in the café resembles comfort for the old man.  He knows he can take a bottle of brandy and go home, but that wouldn’t be the same as sitting in a well-lighted place with company of others.  Although he doesn’t really communicate with the waiters, he still likes their company. 

The bar that the waiter goes to is really loud and not very well light.  He didn’t seem to enjoy the company of other because there were too many people.  This bar sort of represents a dark place for the waiter because he did not like it there.  Personally, I didn’t mind the long screenshots because I could listen to the music in the background and focus on that.  If I were a person who was bothered by the screenshots, I probably wouldn’t of finished the videos in the first place.  The short story was obviously different because you couldn’t see anything, only read.  I liked the videos better because I am more of a visual learner so I like to see things.

Irony

Authors Note: This is a text analysis connection on two different stories.  I was trying to do A-B transitions again with this piece.

Irony is something that happens when an event is suppose to go one way, then it goes the complete opposite.  In The Possession, there's this really sweet, loving, brown nosing girl, that all of a sudden becomes possessed.  It was ironic because the teachers pet turned out to be possessed and scary in the end.  Also in The Ransom Of The Red Chief, by O.Henry, a 10 year old boy got kidnapped.  The irony was that he actually liked being away from home and he said he was having the time of his life.  In both stories there is an ironic plot twist in the end.

In The Ransom Of The Red Chief, there's an important quote that really shows irony in the story.The quote was, "When the kid found out we were going to leave him at home he started up a howl like a calliope and fastened himself as tight as a leech to Bill's leg."  I thought this was an irony because normally when a child is kidnapped they want to go home and be with their parents.  But in this case, he wanted to stay with the men that took him.  I was really confused when I read this part because I thought that the boy would want get the heck out of there.  Obviously  I was wrong.  The overall irony in the end was a great plot twist that I didn't see coming.

Although there is irony in The Ransom Of The Red Chief, there was a also a great ending to The Possession.  A girl teenager out of the blue becomes possessed.  No one expected it because she was always on task, quiet, and overall a teachers pet.  One day she started growling at people and snapping her fingers and twitching.  At the end she killed a classmate of hers.  It's very ironic that a teachers pet would become possessed because normally those type of students end up succeeding in life and not killing one another.  I did not expect this type of ending with someone dying because the story seemed to be having a kind of cheerful tone in the beginning.  I didn't really enjoy reading this piece because of the non solved ending.  There was no solution because the possessed girl just ended up dying and killing someone.  She didn't become her self again and she just went on a rampage of twirling around, hitting things, screaming, and then eventually killing another student.

Even though I read two different stories and one didn't have a resolved ending, they still connected.  The way they connected was because of the obvious irony.  In both stories you would've expected a complete opposite ending to happen.  I was really baffled by how in The Possession, there was such a bad ending.  I wanted there to be a surprise but not that would disappoint me in a way that I wanted to write a whole different ending.  Normally you can predict how a story is going to end, but then when it happens you're sitting in your seat with your mouth open because you could predict it from the beginning.  Another way they connected was because they both had crime in them.  One story a kid gets kidnapped.  In the other, a girl kills another girl.  Now in most movies someone usually dies, but not by a possessed person.  

With both stories having a plot twist ending, they both connected in a way.  I was more shocked by The Possession because there was no solution.  I was kind of upset when I finished it because the girl just died.  I thought she would've became un-possessed and not killed someone.  Overall, both stories had obvious irony in them.

My Bestfriend

Authors Note: This is a poem dedicated to my best friend Dr.  I was trying to create a poem including figurative language in it.

The day I met my best friend.

She was sitting in a beanbag drawing.

I asked to color with her.

We instantly became the best of friends.

She’s the peanut butter to my jelly.

I’m the slim to her shady.

We never get sick of each other,

We never are apart,

We never go a day without talking,

We love each other with all our heart.

When we fight, it’s only for a little while,

Because eventually we miss each other

And come crawling right back.

The way we are sarcastic with each other

Makes people question our friendship.

She’s always there for me,

I’m always there for her.

We have eachtohers back, no matter the situation.

We love to be around eachtoher

because the laughs never stop,

the food never stops being eaten,

the tears always get wipped away,

and the love is unstoppable.

The Ransom Of The Red Chief

In The Ransom Of The Red Chief, a 10 year old boy got kidnapped.  The irony was that he actually liked being away from home and he said he was having the time of his life.  The most important quote was, "When the kid found out we were going to leave him at home he started up a howl like a calliope and fastened himself as tight as a leech to Bill's leg."  I thought this was an important quote because normally when a child is kidnapped they want to go home and be with their parents.  But in this case, he wanted to stay with the men that took him.  It was also important because it's irony.  It's irony because the boy wanted to stay with the men and not to return to his home.  Also that when he got home, the kidnappers paid the Dad $250.  You would think that the Dad would pay any fee to have his child at home.