Now that you've read the first half of Samantha Hunt's story collection, I wonder how you would characterize the stories. Several of them seem to have a magic quality. A woman and her husband turn into deer in "The Beast" a dog comes back to life in "The Yellow." How did you react to this magic in what seems like, otherwise, a realistic story?
What stylistic things did you notice about the stories? The intros/conclusions? The dialogue? (Notice how she gives us one half of a phone conversation on p. 12.) The plots? What about the role of babies and/or animals in the stories? What do they seem to symbolize? Did you recognize that "All Hands" is told from two different perspectives? If not, reread it. The first half is told from the perspective of a man, the dock worker who falls over the side of the boat. And the second half is told from the perspective of the woman who works at the high school where the teenagers are all getting pregnant. Why is it told this way?
The way I reacted when the couple turned into deer, and the dog coming back to life. In each of the stories they are separated by paragraphs for a certain amount of lines, and also some are longer than others. The animals seem to have unreal things happen with them as if they were not real. In All Hands it is told from two different perspectives because it takes place in two different scenes.
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ReplyDeleteThe Dark Dark has views on some delicious,unfading themes in extraordinary ways. Hunt seems obsessed with pregnancy its mysterious introduction, its strange and alarming doubling and redoubling, its puzzling. People who do not deserve children have them, and people who want children can't have them.13 pregnant teenagers mystify a counselor at a high school on the Gulf Coast; a woman who can't get pregnant makes a decision that backfires in surreal and unexpected ways; a woman who suffers a miscarriage takes her anguish straight into the path of a hurricane. All the story in the dark dark are related to middle-class women imprisoned by the domestic way of life, these women are being suffered everyday with their griefs her characters are drown with sorrow and rage. Many times these women are being abandoned and left with no alternative.
ReplyDeleteHi class my topic is arrange marriage so this is one of my poems that I have written on my topic
ReplyDeleteFrigid Love
Juvenile and Alluring
She gazes at the life ahead
With aspiration and confidence
But instead a life was already planned for her
A frigid marriage
With a total stranger
A marriage of convenience plan by her family
A plan that was not for her
She gives her feelings
To the one she loves
She hearken to her feelings
And not her mother voice
She plainly fell in love
With a man of her choosing
She wanted to create a life
With the one she love
The outcome of this feelings
So special to her
Was a disgrace and humilation
For her family
She jeopardize her life with her family
For the feelings she had for her beloved
Her wails for help
Went unheard
As she greives
For the love of her life
And was forcefully united with another.