Three Stories

Of the three stories I read, the two that I somewhat liked were Ernest Hemingway's, "The Hills like White elepants" and Tobias Wolfe's "Powder".  I thought that the Hemingway story was interesting but it had so many different meanings.  It was just about these to people talking in a cafe.  It reminded me of The Killers, just one setting with just dialogue.  There were so many different meanings that you could take from the stories.  I also think that this would be to hard of a story to act out in class because, first of all there are no girls in our group to play as the girl in the story, also there is a lot of dialect and not much stage directions.

The other story, "Powder", was a good story, mainly because it was a story that everyone experiences in there life at sometime, rebellion.  Its all about a guy going through a road block and the emotional conflicts that the characters go through.  I think that this is a probable story that we can and are doing to act out in class.  There is interesting stuff to do and many ways to do the skit.  Also the dialogue is like normal every day speech and has lines that will be easy to get in character because we wont have to use a certain dialect.

The last story I read was a story by Grace Paley.  I don't even know the name of the story because it just seemed to be an entry of a diary rather than a story.  The book I grabbed was probably not her short stories, but either way I didn't like her writing style. That is all I can really say about her.

Brokeback Mountain

I thought that Brokeback Mountain would have been a good movie and book if they didn't go through all the detail.  I thought that the story was a good idea but then when you would see or read the graphic parts, I felt like it distracted me from the actual movie.  I thought those parts were just hard to go through and be able to continue.  At some parts, I felt like just stop reading.

I thought the movie was easier to watch than the book because in the disturbing scenes you could just look away and start watching when it was over, but for the book you had to read through it.  I thought that the movie was good because at times, I felt pity for the characters.  I thought that the movie did a good job at visualizing some of the things that were hard to comprehend in the short story, for example, the description of all the characters.  While I was reading, I felt it was hard to visualize what the characters looked like.

I liked it how in the movie, they showed you what you don't see in story, like how Jack and Lureen met, instead of jack just telling Ennis the story of how they met.  I also liked how they showed more of Jacks life in the movie than in the original story.  The one thing that I thought was odd though was in the story when Lureen told Ennis that Jack died, she just said that he was fixing a tire off his truck and it exploded and it killed him, and in the movie they explained the tire blowing up as well as showing him getting beat up by some guys.  I feel that that is the only deviation from the story in the movie.

Overall I thought that the movie and story was a good, I liked it but I think it would have been better if it wasn't so graphic.