Fiction Journals Done

All the fiction journals have been graded. No more should be posted unless you have yet to participate in the WAYGWHYB discussion board that is due Tuesday. Now you have 5 poetry journals to focus on!

Doe Season

Doe Season was about a girl named Andy who was 9 years old and was going deer hunting for the first time. Andy was going hunting with her father and her father's friend Charlie Spoon and his son Mac who was 11 years old. I feel sorry for Andy because Mac and Charlie are always on her because she is the "girl" of the group and no one thinks she can shoot a deer, little did they know that she would be the one who spot the deer and would eventually shoot it.

The day they went hunting, "They had risen long before dawn." (456). They went to Pennsylvania to hunt in a field that Mac and Charlie had scoped out just two weeks before hand. Mac didn't like the fact that Andy was going with them because hunting in his eyes was for the men. By the end of the hunting trip, I believe that Mac realized that Andy was a good shot and could hunt with the best of them. Her spotting the deer in the woods and actually taking a shot at it, showed that she was good. She was the only one to spot deer all weekend and it was to her luck that she got to show her skills off to Mac and Charlie.

Where Are You Going, Where Have you Been?

I feel sorry for Connie. It's like she is stuck in a place that if she really thought about it, would not want to be in. Shae may think that her fun life with the boys is all great, but she soon finds out that it's not all that it's cracked up to be. Sexual assault is not to be taken lightly. Arnold Friend used all the familiar ways to try to "get" Connie. Threatening violence and using her family as "bait". Demanding when asking or telling her to do something, "We ain't leaving until you come with us."(516) Threatening to harm her family is worse than threatening to harm herself, "You don't want your people in any trouble, do you?"(520) Arnold knew (almost positivly from past experiances) just what to say or do that would make Connie do what he wants. He knew how to have power over her, and he did it. I was a little confused by the phone deal, I couldn't figure out if the screaming or noices she heard in the phone was her imagination, or if somehow Arnold or Ellie had controll over the phone. It's very posible that Connie's mind was causing all these crazy things to happen because Arnold was telling her all these horid things. Such as when he said he would break his promise of not breaking the screan door if Connie picked up the phone.

The Lottery

In the Lottery, people in the village would come out and meet in the square, between the post office and the bank around 10:00 am. This would occur once a year and could take a couple of days to conduct. Mr. Summer's was the man in charge of the event, so therefore he didn't have to participate in the stoning. As the people were gathering on June 27th, for the lottery to begin, one person was missing. The person that was missing was Mrs. Hutchinson, she forgot what time it was and came running with her apron on from doing the dishes. Little did she know that she would be the unlucky one to be stoned that day.

As they began opening their papers from family to family, the people would sigh in relief to know that they would be living a little bit longer. As it became to come closer to the time the Hutchinson's were to open their fate, the feelings began to shift from being happy to being worried. The Hutchinson's were the last to draw and Bill and Tessie knew one of their family members were going to be stoned. The paper with the black spot, was the spot of death. Bill opened his first to see that it was blank, Tessie was last and she knew it was her. Bill went over to her and opened it for her. Tessie knew that her life was over and that she wasn't going home to make dinner for the family. As the paper was opened the black spot was on her paper and Mr. Summer's did as well. Mr Summer's said, "All right Folks, Let's finish quickly." As Mrs. Hutchinson went in front of the crowd she yelled, "It isn't fair, it isn't right!" I have to agree with her stoning someone to death wasn't fair and it wasn't right!