Reading Response: Literary Analysis

The 3 stories i have annotated are The Snipper, The Araby, and Sucker. These stories are pretty cool. I feel like i am still a little confused on writing a literary analysis. I think that Sucker will be a more promising story to write about because I understood it the best. It is also a good length story not to short and not very long! I think the only promising thing about it is that I can understand it the best so I could write a strong paper about it.

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This coming Tuesday is the last day of school volleyball. I am so sad that the season is coming to an end. It has been so much fun! Even though the practices are hard it has all paid off during our games. My team has improved a lot from last year.  We all have a great attitude with each other and understand how important it is to treat each other fair and not skip on practices. I am on JV and play middle blocker. I had never played this position till this year. It is one of the hardest because you have to do a lot of jumping and get a lot of hard balls. I have gotten hit in the face multiple times this year. I even managed to get a black eye at one game but it wasn't to bad. Our team has put a lot of effort in to volleyball this year. We got 2nd place in a pink tournament so it was awesome because we had played awful all day then finally had a couple of good games and got 2nd place! It was also for a great cause so we were all just excited to be playing to help breast cancer awareness. I am sad that the season has to come to a end but I am so excited for soccer to start. I am hoping it is also as fun as volleyball is! I cant wait for the season to start back this coming summer! I am hoping to try out for a club team so I can become even better for high school season.


Reading record
2 hours on annotating short stories
20 minutes in class reading
15 on Kisses from Katie

My Personal question is: What makes me the reader I am and why am i the reader I am?

I have still been reading kisses from Katie which is an amazing book. I highly suggest this to people to read!!

I spent 1 hour reading a book about fashion in the decades then the other hour on my short story.

Short Story Setting

The setting for my story has not yet been all the way taught of. I have many ideas though. I do want to have a big climax that is shocking and surprising to the readers. I think I want it to be in the 21st century just like it is now. I kind of want a mysterious atmosphere where the weather is awful but everything around you is gorgeous.

I know I want to make up the city and state but I want the people in my story to act like we act now. I think it could be a really weird story. For my falling action I know I do not want any deaths because I do not like that because it seems weird to put a death in a sort story.

Post 1 Short Stories

A lot of the short stories we have been reading have been a little confusing for me. I am understanding what to annotate just not the stories. That is probably because they aren't normal stories I read or have heard about.

I think if I get a lot of practice annotating these stories I will understand them a lot more. So far i am enjoying what we are doing with these short stories and it helps me understand what I am being taught in class!


Reading Record
 45 minutes-Kisses Form Katie
1 hour- Reading and annotating short stories