The lottery response

This was a very interesting story.  After reading the first few lines I remembered I had read this story before and excited to hear it again.  The whole idea of the story is a little disturbed.  Randomly picking one person to be stoned for no apparent reason seems very ridiculous.  I don't know when or where this story takes place but it seems to be in the colonial period, if it even takes place in America.  It seemed the town people didn't even care that they were going to kill someone; even Mrs. Hutchinson's son and daughter made a joke of it to to the crowd when they found out it wasn't going to be them.

young goodman brown blog

I found this story to be rather confusing.  It was a hard read and his writing style was very old style.  I still don't know if it was a dream goodman brown had or real life.  I believe he somehow gave his soul to the devil.  It also might have been some sort of witchcraft gathering.  I don't know if his wife, Faith, was a witch but she was at the gathering so im not sure what that represented.  I think the old man he met in the woods represented the devil.  It seemed like he knew he was going into the woods with bad intentions and was trying to talk himself out of it.

A Tell-Tale Heart

This story kept me interested.  It was interesting how it was told from the perspective of the so called "not mad" woman.  I think she was deffiinatly "mad".  I would have given her the benefit of the doubt until she started hearing the heart beating under the floor boards at the end of the story.  The way she described the eye of the old man kind of made me want to kill him too.  Is that the sole reason she killed him?  I wonder if the man suspected she would do something like that to him; especially when she described how scared when he sat up in his bed. 

a rose for emily response

I had never read the book, "A Rose for Emily", before this.  It was an interesting read.  I don't know how she could have endured the smell of sleeping next to a dead body.  I think Emily was mentaly crazy; although I don't think she was born that way.  I think she slowly became crazy from the environment she grew up in.  Her father was very controlling and I question if he had a physical relationship with her.  Where was her mother?  The story leaves a lot of things for the reader to imagine or decide for his or her self.