Little Things


I chose Little Things by Raymond Carver because it shows a darker side of human relationships. I liked the fact that it was different than most things I read, but I found it depressing. This story is accurate in depicting human relationships at their darkest. The couple are obviously enduring a very horrible end to their relationship and are using their baby as a way to hurt one another by fighting over the child. People will do anything to hurt one another if they are desperate enough. This couple within the story are both so livid at each other and full of hatred that they are willing to use their own child as a crutch in their twisted games. This story is full of allusions to divorce, failing marriage, and of course, dark sides to humans and their relationships. Carver is probably choosing to incorporate a child within this story to show how parents' decisions and actions can affect a child in the long run.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez Inspired Photo:

This is a picture of a few of my chickens in my chicken coop at home. After reading about the angel in the chicken coop in the story A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings, I thought instantly about my coop in the backyard. I think it would be extremely weird to keep an angel locked in a chicken coop and can't imagine that happening in the one outside my house.

Rhinoceros.


There have been numerous instances in my life in which I have been both a follower like the Rhinoceros's and a person who refuses to follow the crowd like Berenger. As teenagers, we all know what it's like to give into peer pressure in high school. I was always one of those kids who prided themselves in not giving into peer pressure from friends or classmates. However, I had a particular rhinoceros moment in high school when I promised myself I would not drink at a party, then ended up doing it because all my friends were. I ended up getting sick and not coming home that night, which resulted in a week of grounding. It made me realize that I shouldn't have done that just to be cool or "fit in". I feel like I have had Berenger moments as well. Recently actually, I was pressured to do something cause all my friends were doing it and I made the decision not to, because I did not want to suffer the consequences like the last time i gave into pressure. I felt very proud of myself and I was glad I didn't give into the pressure and I was able to "not turn into a rhinoceros". :)