Today in Mr.Rease's American Literature class we read a short story. When I saw the story I expressed that it isn't a short story. He explained that something that you're able to read in one sitting is a short story. The story was The Rockpile by James Baldwin. Throughout the story we stopped and discussed what is going on. In the story the rock-pile is somewhere where "sinners" would hang. Roy wants to play there whereas John is scared of that place. Their mother doesn't want them playing there. Eventually Roy goes and hurts himself where the father would come home and blames the oldest and the mom. It's a good story, and I've seen this scenario in real life before.
Today in Mr.Rease’s 4th period American Literature class we learned about informal and formal texts. In class he gave us a passage with no context, we just read it. After we read it we all realized that there wasn’t really any theme or moral of the story. He then gave us a topic, which half of the class had already figured out midway through the passage. That was interesting to me because I didn’t get it until the prompt, which says a lot about myself. It was pretty fun breaking down the passage with the 2 different prompts. I’m glad I had a little nice time in 4th period today.
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