Task One:
B. Connie's character draws the reader in by her neurotic personality. I think she's just a confused kid who doesn't know what the hell is going on, and doesn't get it. Joyce Carol Oates has Connie represent how our society can corrupt kids into basing life solely on the way things look and totally disregard all other senses.
D. This story most likely doesn't appeal to very many people because of how odd it is. It's written pretty intensely and can bring a sense of discomfort to the reader.
E. In the end I think everything clicked for Connie. And then she called the cops.
Task two:
1. one centralized character
2. easy to follow plot
3. regular sized font
4. small number of characters
5. one centralized setting
6. totally relatable
7. or totally ridiculous (none of this in between business)
8. no science-fiction
9. or fantasy
10. narrated by someone
2 comments:
i like what you wrote in your what makes a short story great but i think you should of been a little bit more descriptive on some of the things you said like with narrated by someone? who's that someone? the main character? secondary character?
i agree with you in that connie represents this distorted view on life, that everything is about appeareance, and when we focus on that too much, we get exactly what we don't want.
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