Videotape by Don DeLillo

Videotape talks about this person watching television, the imagines in the TV shows this girl who is videotaping this man driving a car. It goes on and on and nothing seen to happen, but the view is caught on the scenery because it seems so realistic is catchy. Finally, the girl caught the moment when the man is shot by another drivers and the twelve year old girl keeps on filming until the view sees when the men dies or starts to past out. The viewer calls his wife because he knows this is the climax of the tape. I think that sometimes we are witnesses to things just by accident and that we also get the best pictures and thing when we are not trying so hard.

Cathedral by Raymond Carver

The story is seen from first person point of view. Is about this man whose wife’s friend comes to visit. The big thing is the visitor is blind and he doesn’t seem like a blind man. Cathedral pops out when a television documentary shows European cathedral and the main character describes the blind mind a cathedral and they eventually end up painting one together. Through the process the man learns that he did know how a cathedral is and that the blind man has great wisdom. The whole message the story send is that the main character was the really blind one because he didn’t value what he had.

The short Happy Life of Francis Macomber by Ernest Hemingway

The story narrates the life of this hunter whose life seems cool to his admires but is all acting. The real truth is Francis Macomber fakes to be this great hunter, who has a beautiful wife, who actually betrays him. His death is suppose to be an accident, but is it? I think that the event happening in the story can totally happen in real life. I bet there a few famous people that are just an act , and who’s fortune was based on that. There are also a lot of stories narrating how people had killed their family member to their fortune, will, insurance and so forth.

Ode on a Grecian Urn by John Keats.

The urn tell us a story that I not be written but can be interpreted. It tell the story of this couple whose love is great. They are still in time and under a tree, and happiness is all they know. Beauty is all they know and need to know. I personally think the idea that the urn has a story painted in it is extremely important, the fact is there is more space for imagination. It also tell a important moment one that shows happiness, sadness, joy or any good emotion that could had lasted a few moments but that is engraved for years to come.

Filling Station by Elizabeth Bishop

The whole idea of filling station is that we have someone that love us. The narrator describes a gas station and what she sees. She describes how everything seems dirty from first impression but if time is given she sees that things are not always what it seems. I think that the author is saying that we shouldn’t judge a book by it’s cover. At first impression we just the surface of things but we time we see more than that. It also means we are all love at the end it says that “somebody loves us all”. Yet someone seems to spend time watering the plan and fixing the cans, she refers that someone cares for a little of organization and life.

"The Storm" by Kate Chopin

This story is literally like a storm. While a storm (cyclone) was going by a series of event took place. Calixta for example gave shelter to a man she had held a relationship in the past. She also betrayed her husband with this man. What I couldn’t believe that she got so caught up in the moment that she forgot that her husband and son were out during a huge storm. Neither could I believe that she acted like nothing happen when her family came home. I also think that it was a big coincidence that Alcee was around and need a shelter.

"Oedipus Rex" by Sophocles

I wasn’t really surprise of how Oedipus turned out. In fact, neither did back when I was in High School. I had read a lot of Greek tragedy and I’m quite used to it. There is the story of Perseus, Hercules, Antagone, Romeo and Juliet. I don’t really like tragedies because I think that story are meant for people to see that bad ones always pay and the good get their happy ending. I feel pity for Oedipus, I think that he couldn’t fight his fate, neither did Perseus. I had always heard that we can run away from our fate, that it would get us. Oedipus went away and Persues was sent away, but at the end fate caught up with them.