This blog is about the short story "Dimension." For this blog I decided to be an active participant in an online discussion that my teacher started on wikispaces. Dimension is about a girl, Doree, who marries at a young age after her mother dies. Her and her husband have 3 kids and the husband is very controlling. One night they get into a bad fight, she leaves, and when she comes back the next morning, she discovers that her husband, Lloyd, had murdered their kids to save them from the pain of their mother "walking out" on them. He was found insane, so he couldn't be tried, so he is put into an mental facility where Doree visits him about every week. In the end of the story, Doree is on her way to see Lloyd. During the drive, there is a car wreck. The bus that she is on stops because of it. A boy was shot out of the windshield of the truck that was involved in the wreck. The story says that the boy was probably to young to even have his license. Doree and the bus driver get out to try to help. The guy tells them that they can leave and he will wait for the ambulance. Doree decides to stay back though and help the boy. I believe that this is because she wasn't able to help her own kids when they were killed so she stays behind to help the boy that was hurt to make up for that.
http://dunnenglishii.wikispaces.com/message/view/Dimension/50240578 (this is a link to wikispaces that goes over the short story "Dimensions."
Wednesday, February 8, 2012
Blood, By Zdravka Evtimova
For my 2nd blog, I went to ImageChef and made a sketch of what I thought would be a good representation of the short story Blood, by Zdravka Evtimova. In the sketch, there are two images, a knife and a skull. The knife represents the main character that cuts himself and gives his blood to the old lady after he tells her that he thinks he has mole blood. The skull represents death. The story leaves you with a cliff hanger, which makes you wonder whether or not the guy dies in the end. The text in the sketch
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