#7 A&P

A&P is a story told by a young boy who is a cashier. With plenty of time on his hands he observes people and finds it entertaining. When three young girls walk through the door, he is unable to keep his eyes off them. The story goes on with the boy describing the girls and watching them. (Well that isn’t creepy!!) With this story being told from a guy’s perspective is raises many concerns from a lady’s point. When I was talking to some of the girls in class they thought that the young boy was very arrogant and rude with the way he talked about the ladies. But here is my thought to all of the extreme feminists about this article. Do you ladies ever find a man attractive, and in the best words I can think of at the moment, “pick and choose” what you do and don’t like about them right from the get go? I know that if a female were to write a story about what she thought about a guy who she just saw I am sure that some of the guy’s reactions would not be nice either. Although when comparing men and women they are obviously very different from the start. What if you were a guy alone walking back to your dorm on campus at night? Hardly any guys would have any problem with that. But you ask women how they feel and almost all would say that they don’t even want to go near campus alone at night because it is creepy or they just feel weird like something is going to happen to them. This partly defines a female identity just in the way we process things differently than men. This pattern of thinking so differently than men may never change.

#6 The Story of an Hour

Mrs. Miller: I was just told by my sister and Richards that my husband just died

Mrs. Miller: So lost on how to feel.....

Mrs. Miller: This room is so lonely

Mrs. Miller: I feel like something is coming but I just don't know what it is!

Mrs. Miller: I feel..... strangely enough... FREE!!!!

Mrs. Miller: From now on I will and always love to live for myself!!!!! =D

Josephine: Hey sis I really need to talk to you.... If you stay in your room forever you will get ill!
           Mrs. Miller: Go away. I am not making myself ill!!

Mrs. Miller: Well I do know that I will NOT need this

reason being is because...
  

Mrs. Miller: So I was doing some thinking and I believe I need a vacation and I found this site:
http://www.singlestravelintl.com/ looks like a blast!!

Josephine: Sis I would really like to see you to make sure that you are okay!
           Mrs. Miller: I am fine and I'll be out soon :)

Mrs. Miller: So nice to see that I have such supportive friends and family. -with Richards and
                     Josephine

Mrs. Miller: Alright I better go so I can enjoy my new life!.... Someone is opening my front door
                    better go see who it is. :) Hope to talk to you all soon. Bye :)

#4 Southern Grotesque

When I think about the story “A Hard Man Is Hard to Find” the most southern grotesque character in the story is the grandmother. Right off the bat she makes it known that she doesn’t want to go on this trip by the way she talks about The Misfit. The grandma says “…I wouldn’t take my children in any direction with a criminal like that aloose in it. I couldn’t answer to my conscience if I did.” Although she still goes with the whole family on this trip. The southern grotesque comes from the grandma when she starts talking about the young boy they see on the side of the road and how she pointed out that the boy didn’t have any pants on and that he probably didn’t own any. From this and the way the grandma talks about it you might think that she is racist to a point. You can notice her attitude towards things when the family pulls off to stop at Red Sammy’s and asks the woman who works there if she is ashamed because the young girl just insulted where they work/live. You start to think that the grandmother is changing her mind about the trip when she suggests to stop at a plantation that she visited when she was a young girl. Which this leads to the family to crashing the car and this is when they meet The Misfit. Ironically she is didn’t want to go on this trip because of him and now she meets him because the car crashed. Throughout the whole story the grandmother is rude, inconsiderate, demining, and more. Yet in the end with her family and herself dying, I believe that she “had it coming” because what comes around goes around. Although dying was a little dramatic but what story that we have read for this class hasn’t ended how we thought?

Orientation #5

So to start off this is where we all usually park. This is the door that we go in, although you can go in the front door but the other attorney usually unlocks that door so we don't have to. The first door on your left and the first two doors on your right belong CASA, we do interact with them a little on our CPS cases. The second door on your left is the girl's bathroom and the next door is the men's. Here is the Pepsi machine... it's not much but then again this is a small building. This is our office, and that one is the other attorney that is in this building, we work with her a lot on having mutual clients and conflicts in cases.
So here in the office this is the other secretary's desk, she mostly handles the paperwork. DO NOT try to do something that you think might help because she is almost 66 years old and she has her system of doing things and don't mess with it. Here is your desk, you will mainly answer the phone and do monthly reports. Also you will pull files for the next few up coming days so that when a client calls that we will already have the file pulled and ready for our attorney to talk to them about their case. Here is our semi-rec-room, this desk is for our intern when he comes and helps our attorney. Here is the fridge you can put anything you want in there and you don't have to label it because there isn't that many people who work here.
Just a few more things. When you're looking for any type of supplies like pens, pencil, staples, sticky notes, folders, well any office thing you need, you will find them in these drawers. Also you will find the garbage bags because if you take out our garbage without having to be asked the other secretary really appreciates. You will find juvenile files in these file cabinets, felony files in this drawer, misdemeanor files in this drawer and ones set for trial in these drawers. Lastly, if our attorney or the other secretary asks you to do something, you do it no if, and, or but. If you follow these instructions it will make life much easier here in the office.
**I work for an attorney as a legal secretary just to let you know :)**

The Lottery

In Shirley Jackson's, "The Lottery," one theme is Man's ability (and need) to rationalize generally unacceptable actions. After talking about this in the classroom, most everyone jumped to reason why they did this, was tradition. Okay, but why was this "tradition" started in the first place? Was it to try to help keep the towns population down? Was it to show that no matter what happens in life that you have to take it as is and hope to get the best situations? In the story by Shirley Jackson, so many of the people act like its an okay, everyday (or in this case every year) thing to do, by the way they talked, (ie. "Alright men, lets get this over with," "come on, hurry up") the way the dressed, (in casual clothes and not their 'Sunday best'). But, my question is do they really know why they are doing this action other than tradition? In today's society we have so many things that we do that are being deemed or rationalized as acceptable even though they really aren't. Take commercials for example, I feel like most of them have some point of sexual context whether you notice it or not. Now in my next statement I'm saying most not all.... With men an advertisement will grab their attention if the commercial has an attractive woman in it, or they will remember it better. Vice-versa with women, an advertisement will catch our attention more if it has an attractive man on it. The most I see with that is that same saying that we have had around for quite a few years.... Sex sells.... So are we saying that having half naked people everywhere we look is okay?.... You tell me.