1. Cather focuses on the character description more than  a plot.

2.  About detailes Cather wrote, "An artist uses any particular scene or incident, not to show how much he knows about it, or because it is in itself interesting. He uses it because of a certain effect of color or emotion that will contribute to his story as a whole, because it is in the mood of the story, or helps to make the mood. Therefore, in writing this scene, he will use as much detail as will convey his impression, no more."

3.Many different cultures from  all over the world, such as Norwegians, Swedes, Bohemians, Germans, and many others, made Red Cloud a multicultural town.

17. Cather changed the date of her birth from 1873 to 1876

18. Willa went to the Ubiversity of Nevraska and worked on University Literary Magazine.

19. In 1896 Willa moved to Pittsburgh.

20. In 1906 she moved to New York!!!

My favorite quote is :

"Nothing really matters but living. Get all you can out of it.I am an old woman, and I know, sometimes people disapoint us... and sometimes we disappoint ourselves. But the thing is to go right on living."

Pauls' Case

Page one (comment)

Seems like this Paul boy has serious troubles with his teachers. May be he is a very talanted boy, but no one understands him. He has bad grades, gives teachers an attitude, and basically doesn't care about anything. He lies because he thinks it's an easier way to get rid of his problems. I think he is one of those genius people, whose talent is going to be shown to the World when he grows up.

Page two (comment)

He loves theater and he has a crush on an older lady - singer at the theater. One of the teachers, that just yelled at him at school is intimidated by him and feels bad because of his family situation, his mom died after couplle minths after his birth. He doesn't seem to care. he feels like he is THE boss in this theater.

Page three (comment)

He is from wealthy family, and he hates being ordinary and  the same with other wealthy little kids, who go to the same school he goes to.

Page four (comment)

Love to the music isa very important thing, and could be that he didn't get a proper attention from his parents, who didn't see his love and talent in music.

Page five (comment)

The example of what Paul shuld be was always pressed on him by his father, and I am sure if someone would tell me what I havce to be and how I have to act, I would protest as well.

Page six (comment)

He had something special inside. No body understands him, but Paul was an exceptional person, requiring special treatement and company of the people who are interested in the same things.

Page seven (comment)

Music and Theater made his life more fascinating. His love for arts was created by his will to get out to this awesome exciting world of reach people, who never sleep at night And not letting him to go to the theater is the same as putting him to prsion.

Page eight (comment)

Going to New York  should a wonderful experience, but where did he get the money??? Did his father give it to him? Why did he lie again? He probably  escaped his home, and stole his dad's money.

Page nine (comment)

Stealing is not a good thing. Especially such a big amount of money. This is not a very good action and he is going to have some serious consequences.He somehow overcame his fears and ran from his town, but will he be able to stay as calm forever?

Page ten (comment)

Doesn't he feel lonely? You have to be lonely, when you stay at unknown place all by your self without anything to rely on to.

Page eleven (comment)

Aha, his father found out where he went, so the boy is going to be taken care of and may be get some help. But feels like he wants this glamorous l;ife more than anything in the world and he hates his "gray" town with all these gray people.

Page twelwe (comment)

He realized that money was everythihing and this is a good idea to finally start thinking about how hard this person had to work to make them.

Page thirteen (comment)

Ouch, train would hurt. You have to be smarter than that. Look out for moving transport.

1. Picture of Roald dahl at age 17. 

Flying training at Nairobi

Portrait taken in 1954

"Lamb to the slaughter" is going to be the story I am going to read by this author.

2. Author's Biography

British writer, famous for his ingenious short stories and macabre children's books. Dahl's taste for cruelty, rudeness to adults, and the comic grotesque fascinated young readers, but upset many adult critics. Several of Dahl's stories have been made into films, including Matilda, dir. by Danny DeVito (1996).

Roald Dahl was born in Llandaff, Wales, of Norwegian parents. His father, Harald Dahl, was the joint owner of a successful ship-broking business, "Aadnesen& Dahl" with another Norwegian. Before emigrating to Wales, Harald had been a farmer near Oslo. He married a young French girl named Marie in Paris; she died after giving birth to their second child. In 1911 he married Sofie Magdalene Hesselberg. Harald died when Dahl was four years old, and three weeks later his elder sister, Astri, died from appendicitis. The family had to sell their jewellery to pay for Dahl's upkeep at Repton, a private school in Derbyshire. His years at public schools in Wales and England Dahl later described without nostalgia: "I was appalled by the fact that masters and senior boys were allowed literally to wound other boys, and sometimes quite severely. I couldn't get over it. I never got over it..." (from Boy: Tales of Childhood, 1984) Dahl especially hated the matron who ruled the school dormitories. These experiences later inspired him to write stories in which children fight against cruel adults and authorities. "I have never met anybody who so persistently writes words meaning the exact opposite of what is intended," one of Dahl's English teachers commented.

"Parents and schoolteachers are the enemy," Dahl once said. "The adult is the enemy of the child because of the awful process of civilizing this thing that when it is born is an animal with no manners, no moral sense at all." In WITCHES (1973) behind the mask of a beautiful woman is an ugly witch, and in MATILDA (198 Miss Turnbull throws children out of windows. Both parents are eaten in JAMES AND THE GIANT PEACH (1961), but the real enemies of the hero of the story, a little boy, are two aunts.

At eighteen, instead of entering university, Dahl joined an expedition to Newfoundland. Returning to England he took a job with Shell, working in London (1933-37) and in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (1937-39). During World War II he served in the Royal Air Forces in Libya, Greece, and Syria. He was shot down in Libya, wounded in Syria, and then posted to Washington as an assistant air attaché to British Security (1942-43). In 1943 he was a wing commander and worked until 1945 for British Security Co-ordination in North America.

In the crash Dahl had fractured his skull, and said later: "You do get bits of magic from enormous bumps on the head." While he was recovering from his wounds, Dahl had strange dreams, which inspired his first short stories. Encouraged by C.S. Forester, Dahl wrote about his most exiting RAF adventures. The story, A Piece of Cake, was published by the Saturday Evening Post. It earned him $1,000. The same story was later included in OVER TO YOU: THE STORIES OF FLYERS AND FLYING (1946). Dahl's first children's book, THE GREMLINS (1943), about mischievous little creatures, was written for Walt Disney and became later a popular movie. His collection of short stories, SOMEONE LIKE YOU (1954), gained world success, as did its sequel, KISS KISS (1959). The two books were serialized for television in America. A number of the stories had appeared in the New Yorker. Dahl's stories were seen in Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955-61) and in the Tales of the Unexpected (1979) series.

In 1953 Dahl married the successful and wealthy actress Patricia Neal; they had one son and four daughters - the eldest daughter Olivia died of measles when she was eight. Dahl's wife suffered a series of brain hemorrhages at the age of 38; while pregnant with their fifth child she had a stroke. She described her recovery and her husband's solicitous help in the autobiography As I Am (198 . The marriage ended in 1983 after other family tragedies, and Dahl married Felicity Ann Crossland.

The only stageplay Dahl ever wrote, THE HONEYS, failed in New York in 1955. After showing little inclination towards children's literature, Dahl published JAMES AND THE GIANT PEACH (1961). It was first published in the United States, but it took six years before Dahl found a published in Britain. James and the Giant Peach was followed by the highly popular tale CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY (1964), filmed in 1971. The story dealt with one small boy's search for the ultimate prize in fierce competition with other, highly unpleasant children, many of whom come to sticky ends as a result of their greediness. It presented the central theme in Dahl's fiction for young readers: virtue is rewarded, vice is punished. In the end the fabulous chocolate factory is given to Charlie, the kind, impoverished boy. THE WITCHES (1983) won the Whitbread Children's Book Award in 1983. The judges described the book as "deliciously disgusting". Later Felicity Dahl collected her husband's culinary "delights", such as "Bird Pie", "Hot Frogs", and "Lickable Wallpaper" in Roald Dahl's Revolting Recipes (1994).

MY UNCLE OSWALD (1979) was Dahl's first full-length novel, a bizarre story of a scheme for procuring and selling the sperm of the world's most powerful and brilliant men. Dahl received three Edgar Allan Poe Awards (1954, 1959, 1980). In 1982 he won his first literary prize with THE BFG, a story about Big Friendly Giant, who kidnaps and takes a little girl to Giantland, where giants eat children. In 1983 he received World Fantasy Convention Lifetime Achievement award. Dahl died of an infection on November 23, 1990, in Oxford. Dahl's autobiographical books, BOY: TALES OF CHILDHOOD and GOING SOLO, appeared in 1984 and 1986 respectively. The success of his books resulted in the foundation of the Roald Dahl Children's Gallery in Aylesbury, not far from where he lived.

Dahl's stories have unexpected endings and strange, menacing atmospheres. The principle of "fair play" works in unconventional but unavoidable ways. Uncle Oswald, a seducer from 'The Visitor', gets seduced. In 'Parson's Pleasure' an antique dealer tastes his own medicine and the Twits from THE TWITS (1980) use glue to catch birds and meet their own gluey ends. In 'Lamb to the Slaughter' the evidence of a murder, a frozen leg of lamb, is eaten by officers who in vain search for the murder weapon. The story was inspired by a meeting with the writer Ian Fleming at a dinner party. Puns, word coinages, and neologism are more often used in the children's stories, whereas in adult fiction the emphasis is on imaginative plots. In addition to his children's books, Dahl also aroused much controversy with his politically incorrect opinions - he was accused of anti-Semitism and antifeminism and when a prowler managed to get into Queen Elizabeth's bedroom, Dahl was wrongly suspected of giving to the unwanted guest the idea in one of his books, The BFG (1982).

3. List of Major Works

Autobiographies

Boy – Tales of Childhood

Boy and Going Solo

Going Solo

The Great Mouse Plot

My Year  

Children's Books 

The BFG

The BFG, Matilda, and George's Marvelous Medicine

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator

The Compete Adventures of Charlie and Mr Willy Wonka

Danny, the Champion of the World

The Enormous Crocodile

Esio Trot

Fantastic Mr. Fox

George's Marvelous Medicine

The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me

The Gremlins

James and the Giant Peach

The Magic Finger

Matilda

The Minpins

The Twits

The Vicar of Nibbleswicke

The Witches  

Novels 

My Uncle Oswald

Sometime Never  

Poetry

Dirty Beasts

Revolting Rhymes

Rhyme Stew

 Short Story Collections

5 Bestsellers

Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life

The Best of Roald Dahl

The Collected Short Stories of Roald Dahl

Completely Unexpected Tales

Further Tales of the Unexpected

The Great Automatic Grammatizator and Other Stories

Kiss Kiss

Lamb to the Slaughter and Other Stories

The Mildenhall Treasure

More Tales of the Unexpected

The Roald Dahl Omnibus

Over to You

Selected Stories of Roald Dahl

A Roald Dahl Selection: Nine Short Stories

A Second Roald Dahl Selection: Eight Short Stories

Skin and Other Stories

Someone Like You

Switch B***h

Tales of the Unexpected

Tales of the Unexpected (Volume 1)

Tales of the Unexpected (Volume 2)

Taste and Other Tales

Twenty Nine Kisses from Roald Dahl

Two Fables

The Umbrella Man and Other Stories

The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More  

Miscellaneous 

Roald Dahl's Book of Ghost Stories (editor)

The Roald Dahl Diary 1992

The Roald Dahl Diary 2000

Memories with Food at Gipsy House

Roald Dahl's Even More Revolting Recipes

Roald Dahl's Guide to Railway Safety

The Roald Dahl Quiz Book

Roald Dahl's Revolting Recipes

The Roald Dahl Treasury

 

4. Summary of Landlady

 Billy Weaver arrives in Bath after taking the train from London. He's never been to the town before, but he has to start a new job there soon and he's excited. He goes toward The Bell and Dragon, which is a pub he's been told he could spend the night at. On the way, he notices a sign in the window of a nearby house: "BED AND BREAKFAST." Billy looks in the window and notices that it's a charming house, with a roaring fire and a little dog curled up asleep on the rug. He decides to check it out and rings the bell. It is answered immediately a little old lady who invites him to enter and tells him the room rate. As it's less than half what he was prepared to pay, Billy decides to stay. She tells him that he is the only guest as she takes him to his room. When he goes downstairs to sign the guest-book, he notices that there are only two names in the entire book. The names are over two years old... and what's more, they look to him very familiar. While he tries to remember where he could hear these names, the landlady brings him a cup of tea. He seems to remember that one of them was an Eton schoolboy that disappeared, but she assures him that her Mr. Temple was different. Billy sits down before the fire with his tea and notices a strange odor that comes from the woman, something like walnuts or new leather. They begin talking about the guests that were in this house before, and she notes that both of them were handsome young men just like him. He asks if they left recently, and she replies that both of them are still in the house on the third floor. Billy is confused and tries to change the subject by commenting on a parrot in a cage, which he thought was alive but just realized is stuffed. The landlady reveals that she herself stuffed the bird, and as she is a taxidermist she stuffs all her own pets. Billy realizes that the little dachsund by the fire isn't alive. He also notices a curious bitter almond taste in his tea, and he asks the landlady again: "Haven't there been any other guests here except them in the last two or three years?" She gives him a little smile and replies, "No, my dear. Only you."

5.My Response to this story.

I liked this story from the very beginning. foreshadoving detailes were very good and let me know wjat was going to happen in a little tricky ways. The author would only give out one detail at the time. I like this kind of puzzling stuff.

6.Summary of the story I read.

A young lady(Mary Maloney) is waiting for her husband (Patrick), who is a police officer, to come back from work. Sh is 6 months pregnant and has to saty at home all day. Whenever her husband finally comes and opens the door she comes up to him and greets him, he does the same. All evening he is being quiet and not talking too much. She is asking him bunch of senseless questions, whichh seem to irritate him. He just wants to drink his whiskey. He seem to be thinking of something very important and it bothers him. She asks if he wants her to bring his slippers and cook supper if he doesn't want to go out and eat. He tells her to sit down and says that he can not stay with her anymore, he realizes that this is not a good time to brake up their relationship, but he would give her money for the baby and take care of them.

Mary didn't believe what she heard and decided to go and cook the dinner for them, may be she would wake up from this "bad dream". She goes to the frizer and gets a lamb leg out, then on the way to the kitchen, she sees Patrick staying by the window, somehow she comes up close to him and hits him in the back of his head with the lamb leg, killing him.

After she realizes what she has done, she thinks of what is in her future. She doesnt know if she is going to be executed before or after her baby is born, and how can she cover her crime. She puts the lamb leg into the oven to cook, and goes out to the store. There she acts like she is very happy and cheerful, gets food, comes back home, and finds Patrick dead on the floor. She calls cops, and acts like she is measerable. All of them are good friends of Patricks, they check her alibi and how she acted at the store.

At the end they are talking about if they find a weapon they will find a killer,and one of them was talking that this weapon probably under their very nose, but they just don't notice it at the same time eating the lamb leg that she asked them to eat for taking good care of her. At the end she is going crazy because she hears what one of the policemen says she starts giggling!

Story Response:

This story is awesome! This woman is the kind of a person that is very nice and seems to have no opinion, and she probably doesn't, but whenever someone hurts her feelings she hurts them worse (kills them). She didn't plan on it, but she thought really quickly after she had done it, how to get away with the crime.

7. Critical Analysis of additional story

The theme of this story is the effect of stressful situation upon Mary Maloney.

Point of view in this story is third person limited because we can only read mind of one person, which is Mary Maloney.

Plot of the story

a. Problem: Patrick decided to brake up their relationship because he didnt want to stay with Mary anymore.

b. Complications: Mary refuses to take this seriously, she does not believe in them living apart.

c. Climax: in shock situation as she is, she kills Patrick with the leg of the lamb.

d. Mary gets away with the murder, police officers eat the weapon which she killed Patrick with.

 

1. Bertha is married to Harry; she keeps telling her self that she is so happy. She runs home and sees her baby. She has a very good family and she waits for the party tonight. She can’t wait till her friends come over. She likes Mrs. Fulton, but her husband seems to not like her. He acts like he doesn’t want her around, and Bertha wants to make him to change his mind because she thinks that Mrs. Fulton is wonderful. Whenever everyone leaves Harry goes to catch taxi for Mrs. Fulton to be polite. And while Bertha is waiting for him to come back, she looks out of the house and sees Harry’s hands on Mrs. Fulton’s shoulders and tells her that he will see her tomorrow. Bertha is getting all upset because she doesn’t know what’s going to happen now.
2. I liked this story. From the beginning Bertha is a very cheerful character, and it feels unnatural that she is so happy all the time, this detail makes me to suspense that she is trying to make her self to believe that she is very happy. The way Harry acts toward Mrs. Fulton is suspicious also: Why would he be so mean to her? The fact that he tries to hide his feelings about her explains his weird behavior. This story is not for everyone, you have to think of people’s emotions and actions a lot, and make a deep analysis, that’s why some of the people don’t like it.
3. Similarities between the stories:
1. Chrysanthemums in the story “Chrysanthemums” are the symbols of the lady that planted them, and pear tree is a symbol of Bertha in the “Bliss”.
2. Both ladies are fooled by the actions of the men.
3. Both of the ladies enjoy nature (Bertha-pear tree, and other lady – chrysanthemums)
4. At the end both ladies are trying to hide their hurt feelings, the lady in chrysanthemums doesn’t tell his husband about the other man throwing her flowers away, and Bertha in “Bliss” doesn’t know what to do about what she just saw her husband doing.
5. Both of the ladies are married =)
4. The pear tree – is the Bertha’s symbol. Bertha sees “at the far end, against the wall, there was a tall, slender pear tree in fullest, richest bloom; it stood perfect, as though becalmed against the jade-green sky. Bertha couldn't help feeling, even from this distance, that it had not a single bud or a faded petal.” It symbolizes Bertha’s personality; she is all blooming and happy.
5. She says, “I am too happy, too happy!” She is too positive, doesn’t expect anything bad to be happening in her life; doesn’t want to see it. And the more ironic thing is that at the end she finds out that everything is not as good, and she really is miserable in her “perfect” life. Her husband cheats on her, unpredictably, unexpectedly.
6. At the end Bertha finds out that Harry cheats on her, and she tries to stay calm and doesn’t show her hurt feelings to anybody, she lets the guests to leave and while Harry is closing shop she looks at the pear tree which was “as lovely as ever and as full of flower and as still.” This means that no matter what happens she (Bertha) is always going to be lovely and wonderful. There may be many problems, but you can always overcome them, even if they don’t turn out right, and move on in search of better life.

The lottery by Shirley Jackson “The Lottery” is considered one of the finest American short stories of the 20th Century. 
Theme 1 The reluctance of people to reject outdated traditions, ideas, rules, laws, and practices. The villagers continue the lottery year after year because, as one of the villagers would say, “We have always had a lottery as far back as I can remember. I see no reason to end it.” Put another way, this theme says: “We’ve always done it this way. Why change now?” Defenders of the status quo have used this philosophy down through the ages and into the present day. For example, it was used in 1776 to retain slavery even though the Declaration of Independence asserted that “all men are created equal.” Until 1919, it was used to prevent women from voting. Until the 1960's, it was used as an official public policy to allow racial segregation. This philosophy continues to be used today to retain outmoded practices, discriminatory practices, and sometimes dangerous practices. These practices include the use of paper ballots in elections, the use of nuclear weapons, capital punishment, abortion, anti-Semitism, racial profiling, and denial of health benefits to the poor. 
Theme 2 Society wrongfully designates scapegoats to bear the sins of the community. According to some interpretations of “The Lottery,” Tessie Hutchinson is stoned to death to appease forces desiring a sacrificial lamb offered in atonement for the sins of others. The practice of using scapegoats dates back to ancient times, when Jews ritually burdened a goat with the sins of the people, then threw it over a cliff to rid the community of those sins. Ancient Greeks performed a similar ritual with a human scapegoat, although the scapegoat apparently did not die. In ancient Rome, an innocent person could take on the sin of a guilty person, thus purifying the latter. Early societies in Central and South America offered human sacrifices to appease higher powers.  
Theme 3 The wickedness of the common man or woman on the street can be just as shocking and horrifying as the heinous crime of a serial killer or a sadistic head of state. From time to time, we are surprised to learn that the man, woman, or even child next door–a quiet, unassuming postal worker, bank clerk, or student–has committed offenses so outrageous that they make national news. 
Theme 4 The unexamined life is not worth living. The truth of this dictum of the ancient Greek philosopher, Socrates, becomes clear when the townspeople refuse to examine their traditions–and continue to take part in a barbaric ritual. 
Theme 5 Following the crowd can have disastrous consequences. Although some townspeople raise questions about the lottery, they all go along with it in the end. Thus, they become unthinking members of a herd, forfeiting their individuality and sending Tessie Hutchinson to her death.  
Foreshadowing Shirley Jackson uses foreshadowing (second paragraph; the gathering of stones) to presage the ending and make it seem more plausible. 
Irony Jackson uses irony throughout the story. For example, the title suggests that one of the villagers will receive a boon; the sunny day indicates that a happy event is about to take place.  
Symbolism The black box and the stoning represent outdated traditions. 

All this above I found on the http://sites.micro-link.net .

 

1. As was Mansfield herself. She was known as quite the female libertine for her time. Traveling around. Sleeping around (with both sexes). Thinking around. Experimenting around.
2. Her first marriage, which lasted effectively only a day, she said was research for a story to see what it felt like. She dressed in black during the wedding.
3. Only three collections of her stories were published during her lifetime.
4. In a German Pension came out in 1911 after her experience of pregnancy and losing the child in Bavaria.
5. As she was dying of TB, she rushed to complete stories for her most influential collection The Garden Party and Other Stories in 1922.
6. No wonder Woolf considered Mansfield cheap and whorish, while Mansfield found the slightly older author a prig. (They did seem to have enjoyed discussing writing with each other though. There is even a book available on their intense literary relationship, Katherine Mansfield and Virginia Woolf: A Public of Two.
7. From 1912 she was associated with Rhythm, a modernist publication edited by John Middleton Murry who became her second husband in 1918 and her champion after her death.
8. Katherine Mansfield was born in Wellington, New Zealand, into a middle-class colonial family
9. As a part of her treatment in 1922 at an institute, Mansfield had to spend a few hours every day on a platform suspended over a cow manger.
10. Mansfield died of a pulmonary hemorrhage on January 9, 1923, in Gurdjieff Institute, near Fontainebleau, France.
11. Influenced short stories up to this time.
12. She wrote about the people with flesh and blood, not just theoretical entitles.

13.  Te Dove’s Nest and Something Childish were published posthumously.

I chose Mrs. Spence as the subject for this assignment.

My hypothesis:

She is very lonely and searching for love. She believes that she is something special for Mr. Hutton and that he is in love with her "Gioconda Smile". She is very naive and dumb.

My proof:

1. Her Gioconda smile, he had once called it in a moment of half-ironical flattery. Miss Spence had taken the compliment seriously, and always tried to live up to the Leonardo standard. She smiled on in silence while Mr. Hutton shook hands; that was part of the Gioconda business.

2.One morning he interrupted her in the midst of her customary tirade. “By the way,” he said in his soft, melancholy voice, “I suppose it was really you who poisoned Mrs. Hutton.”

Miss Spence stared at him for two or three seconds with enormous eyes, and then quietly said, “Yes.” After that she started to cry.

3. “Marriage is a sacred tie, and your respect for it, even when the marriage was, as it was in your case, an unhappy one, made me respect you and admire you, and—shall I dare say the word?—”

“…yes, love you, Henry, all the more. But we’re free now, Henry.”
And then she says “Oh, Henry, Henry, I have been unhappy, too.”

Isn't that naive? Why would you expect someone like Henry to love you? It is so easy to understand that he is playing with you, unless he confesses his feelings and asks you to be with him. My advice for ladies: Wait for man to make the first move toward the relationship, othervise you can get into incomfortable situation.

This story was very interesting. It got my attention by showing very lifeful situation of family going on the summer vocation. Little satiric and ironic injections made it also very intertaining. However situation irony of this story made me sad about this story after I was done reading because what happened at the end didn't go with what I was expecting. The whole family dies and it is all very tragic, and at the beginning I thought that it would be really easy and fun trip with lots of fights between son and mother, and kids.

Verbal irony in chaser.

Old man said that costumers come back later in life and ask for more expencive things, and that the young man will find the potion very effective. By very effective young man thinks that he will get the love of his life, but the old man means that this is very effective for him because costumers come back after using it for something more expencive - poison to get rid of their affected passionate fanats.

The Jilting of Granny Weatherall

This story is about an old lady that is dying. The whole story is been told mostly from first point of view. Old granny is not ready to die. She remembers all the sad moments in her past life and she relieves them again. Her first love left her by altar in the wedding dress, and how much she told her self that she forgot about him, she didn't. Her husband died, and she missed him. She also had lost her daoughter Hapsy, and was looking for her at the end.  During the whole story granny keeps going back and forth in time, she realizes that she is dying but she doesn't differenciate the time anymore.She feels like she is not ready to die yet because she has all these little things to take care of. On the very end she is waiting patiently for the sign from God. But again, just like when her first love left her, she doesn't  get the sign, and she feels very sad,when she realizes that there is no life after this.

The Chaser.

This story is about a young guy that loves a girl named Diana.  He comes to an old man, who, as he thinks, can help him. The old man is describing poison's qualities and how people are ready to pay big money for a little bit of it. And young man is inyterested in love potion, and keeps asking the old man for the price of it. Than the old man starts talking about how passionatly the girl, that Allan desires will love him. She will follow him, worry about him and go crazy if he is 1 hour late. She'll forgive him for anything. This is all the young man desires and he is completely happy, and wants to buy the potion. The old man tells him the price of it and it is $1. Allan is excited, gets the potion, and says ,"Bye". The old man says , " See you later". Meaning that the young man will come back sooner or later to ask him for a poison or something as much expencive to get rid of his passionate lover.