Post for week of 2/17/2015

The first story I read in the packet was the story Taking the Baby to the Liquor Store. After discussing it in class I believed it to be a sort of comedy story. When I first read it though, I did not tell it was a comedy, but I thought it was more serious. The lines where it stated the narrator and his baby were drinking together did show some sense of comedy that I must have read right over.

The second story I read was Wallet. This story was easily distinguishable as a comedy to me. The beginning the man talks about how he was robbed and how he wants to get back at thieves. So instead of getting assistance from the cops, he makes a pseudo wallet and acts like an old man needing help. This causes a thief to try and take his wallet, but the thief is stopped by the store clerks. This story was funny because it shows some silly actions that a father and son do in order to try and get even with a thief.

The third story I read was called Ungulated. It is a story about a woman named Stella trying to keep a deer out of her garden, or yard. This story is different since it doesn't really delve into the characters so much as the plot. It mentions that the deer wants to get into the yard in order to eat the food, but the woman doesn't want that so she builds a fence. In the end it mentions how they are both determined to accomplish their goals.