Haunted Houses

I have a feeling this chapter is going to be fun! The introduction pulled me in and it made it seem that this whole chapter would be full of exciting emotional stories. My favortire types of stories, stories on family and love are in this chapter. I am very excited to begin reading all these stories.


I read Bone Black, it was very touching and very emotional to read about a daughters view on her parents abusive relationship. I noticed this writer used very short choppy sentences, which i thought worked very nicely with this story. This story was different, i have read many stories coming from the childs point of view but it was intersting the way the author wrote it.
I hope to read many more stories like this.

Essay uno DOS

So I have decided that i am going to write about America's obsession with security, while relating to Once Upon A Time. I am going to use the book as a basic guideline to help me come up with a thesis and help my the ideas of the book relate to my ideas.

Essay uno

At the moment I am a bit confused on what the first essay is about. It seems that the essay is us writing about the stories we have read so far? Thats what it sounds like at least, and if that is what it is about then that sounds good. So far I have enjoyed most of the stories we have read. There have been some i dont like as much as others, but all in all they have been interesting and very fun to analyze. Sometimes i wish a story could be just a story, that we wouldnt have to analyze and rip it apart until it's dead. But at the end of each class i come away knowing so much more about the story and the author. I come away knowing what my classmates think of the story, and i come away with thousands of questions on the story. I think thats the most important thing, to have questions, i think its even more important then completly understanding the story. If you completly understand the story then your finished with it, there isnt any more you can get from it. But if you walk away with more questions and more thoughts running around in your head then your not finished with it, there is still room to explore and gather new information.
So far out of all the stories we have read, there have been two that i have enjoyed greatly. Once Upon A Time and Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? Those two stories I feel have had the most room for exploring and ananlyzing. Especially Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? at first read you dont think much of it, then you start thinking, i mean really thinking, about it and you start realizing things arent what they seem, maybe there is a hidden meaning in the story, maybe there is something you didnt catch the first time. Then you start thinking about the characters and who they remind you of. You go from a simple story to people being a fallen angel, the devil, elvis presley.
I loved hearing what everyone else's opinions were too. Some peoples were similiar to mine and some peoples were completly in the oposite direction.