Monday, October 28, 2013

Confusion is Key

    I read An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, Sucker, and A Worn Path. These three stories are all very different, and confusing at times. Sometimes, people think of confusion in a bad way, but in my case it brought curiosity as to why did the author leave this variable in the story to confuse the audience. The confusion kind of made me look at the story in a different way and helped me with the literary analysis thesis.
   In An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, I was confused about why the author mixed up the plot sequence. I was confused about the mood of the story. I was confused about the ending of the story. In Sucker, I found myself asking, why is this relevant.? What point is he/she getting to? The characters in the story didn't mix to form one idea and it just seemed like a bunch of jumbled parts spread across the page in form of text. Then, A Worn Path was the single most confusing short story I may have ever read. The author tells us about an older woman who hates walking on this path, but still goes through with walking this path, multiple times. So, this story was another, why is it relevant situation? So far, I've asked a bunch of questions and hopefully I'll come up with some good answers.
   Allegiant, Veronica Roth
10/24- 15 minutes, 11 pages
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, Ambrose Bierce
10/26- 45 minutes,  7 pages
Sucker, Carson McCullers
10/27- 1 hour and 5 minutes, 13 pages
A Worn Path, Eudora Welty
10/27- 1 hour and 20 minutes, 8 pages
Total- 3 hours and 25 minutes, 39 pages.

1 comment:

  1. Try reading it again. I did and it made quite the difference. I'm sure you'll find you answers to your questions. You need to dig just a little deeper.

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