Doctor Jack-O'-Lantern by Richard Yates

Vinni is the new boy at school, an orphan, who has problems making friends. His teacher Ms. Price tries to help him out by giving him chance after chance to help him out, but Vinni keeps feeding the bully guy vibe to the kids. Even though she tries and tries to give him chances he continues to let her down by lying, writing curse words on the wall and also drawing a picture of her on the wall to show who has the real power.

With Vinni being an orphan he has never really had a mother figure and Ms. Price would be the first real adult figure to care about him and him not knowing or wanting the attention uses it to gain the attention of the students by being a bully figure to the others and shows them how powerful he is by taking the "punishment" that the teacher supposedly gave him, and then drawing her picture on the wall.

GOOD COUNTRY PEOPLE by FLANNERY O’CONNOR

This is a story about two family who is a little too trusting. The Hopewell family owns a farm and the Freedman family comes by and helps out. The Hopewell consist of a mother and two her two daughters. The Freedman family is a mother and her daughter Joy who changes her name to Hugla. Hugla lost one of her legs in a hunting accident when she was 10 and had an aritfical leg growing up. She was also a scholar of philosophy. One day a bible salesman came and began to swoon Hugla. They went to a picnic where at the end he gains her trust and then steals her leg.

In this story I see a trust issue. The people are too trusting of the stranger and in the end he steals her leg. Also a big issue with you see Hugla to be a bully and in the end she is the one in danger and the salesman is the crock.

Barn Burning by William Faulkner

This a story about a family where the father likes to Burn Barns. They move from town to town and the father continues to start fights with outers and burns down the barns. the youngest child town between either telling the truth or sticking with the family. At the end the mother tries to hold him back from telling the family that his father was about to burn the barn. He escapes out of his mothers arms and tells the family. He runs away and never looks back.


I think that this story is all about loyalty and the different types. In this story we see loyalty to family, town and self. In the beginning the young boy is loyal to his family and at the end he is loyal to himself cause he knew he needed to tell the truth. The loyalty to the town is shown though out the story where the people kick the family out to protect one another.
Also this story is about power. The father feels like he need to have control not just over his family but where ever they live. He has to show everyone that hes the boss and he can do what ever he wants.

Sweat by Zora Hurston

Summery
The story starts with Delia in a Florida kitchen beginning to wash closes when her husband of 15 years interrupts. Durring the story we see how her husband Sykes is and has been mentally and physically abusive to her and how the whole town knows and cant do anything about it. Through out the whole story Sykes throws around his affair with another woman, and how strong he is. At the end Delia finally defends her self. Sykes takes a snake that he caught and leaves it in a box outside the house to scare her. Finally at the end Delia enters the house and then finds the snake in the house. She flees outside and waits for Sykes to return. When he does return he cries out for her but she does not enter the house until daybreak and sees him on the ground all swollen from the rattle snake bites.

Comments
I think the story is pretty blunt and to the point. It shows the effects of abuse on a community. Delia was a beautiful woman who was in love then after the years of abuse had taken its toll on her. The whole town knew what was going on in the relationship and all they did was stand back while it was being flaunted on to them. Then when Delia tried to fight back he pushed back to show who was in power. Yet in the end he didn't have all the power cause who was the one who was crying out for who.

The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

In this story the narrator is a young wife who is staying in a rental house. She is suffering from depression, so her husband keeps her in the same room with only him and his sister to visit her. Hiding her writing she tells of the wallpaper that lines the walls of her room. Throughout the story she tells of the women she sees trapped in the wall paper at night and during the day is able to creep around. Eventually she becomes obsessed and fixated with the paper and at the end of the story she locks herself in the room and tears off the paper and strangles herself.

Comments
I see the woman in the wall to represent the narrator. On the outer most appearance she seems like a quiet mosey woman and the woman in the wallpaper is her tring to breakout of her shell. In the end she does break out but it lead to her down fall.

5 Points From Carnival of Crime and Young Goodman Brown

Carnival of Crime
1.Conscience
2.Rate of growth
3.His Aunt
4.Death
5.Life without a conscience

Young Goodman Brown
1."Faith"
2.The snake staff
3.The pink ribbon
4.The gathering
5.Browns life before he dies

Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Summery
The story starts off with Brown leaving his wife Faith to into the woods. In the woods he encounters the Devil who invites him to journey with him. Brown being always fearful continues along with him. A women appears in the woods and where the Devil continues towards her he turns away. As he watches the women calls him the Devil and the mans staff turns into a snake. He starts to run away when he hears voices singing and sees his wife's pink ribbon in the trees and turns around to find her. He see people assembling in the center of the woods. He notices people from his town and clergy members from his church. He sees his dead father beckoning him towards the fire in the center but also sees his mother telling him to stay away. Without thought he is pulled in the group. Here hears every ones sin and secret evil. Then his wife Faith joins him and he wishes her to look up to heaven. The next day he gets up and hurries back to town where he is embraced by his wife. He wonders if it had all been a dream, but the next time he attends church he hears it. Like little wipers he hears every ones sins that are pouring to him. From that day further he lost his faith and died a sad and gloomy man.

Comment
I think that the story is all about him losing his faith. When he goes into the woods he is terrified of all the evil that by be hiding in the woods. When he goes to leave the woods he sees his wife's ribbon and that is symbolic to me to represent not only him losing his wife but that is the point where he returns and learns that evil is all around him even in his town and at church. That is when he truly loses his faith.

"The Facts Concerning a Recent Carnival of Crime in Connecticut"

Summary
"The Facts Concerning a Recent Carnival of Crime in Connecticut" is a story about a man who is confronted by his conscience. He feels that he needs to kill his conscience in order to be free of its power. In his attempts he learns the life of a conscience, and how the effects their person makes effects their health. His aunt comes to visit and tells him that the person a few houses down, who he promised to visit, died alone and friendless. His conscience cant take the pain anymore and falls to the feet of his human. In rage he kills his conscience and his aunt fled the house with fear. In conclusion he killed over 30 people with in the first weeks, burned a house, and other things. With out a conscience he ran amok with no vengeance.

Conclusion
The story seemed to me to represent government and society. The government is represents society. When the society is unified and together, the government looks good, when the society is a mess and in shambles, the government is a mess. Then when you get rid of the government the whole society goes crazy and to dismay.

"Shades"- by Boleslaw Prus

"Summary"
"Shades" tells the story about how there is a constant battle with night and day. How night hides during the day and is free to roam when the sun goes down. During the night though there is one man with a flame comes lights the lamps then disappears. One day the narrator goes to see the man, because he wants to learn about him. When he arrives the man is not there and no one knew about him. The narrator returns a year later and finds out that the man is dead. Still wondering about him, he tries to find his grave and yet again no one can give him the information.

"Comment"
In the story "Shades", to me, the old man represented everyone and the flame represented hope. When the darkness covered all and crime and fear ran amok the man brought the light to dispel the darkness so people would not be afraid. Then when he died it symbolized the start of a new. With every death someone is born to take that place. There would be a new lamp lighter, someone to bring hope to the night