Throughout this semester we have been reading excerpts from children’s literature that are longer in length then a short story, which has a quick story and ending. My reading habits completely change when I am reading a short story as opposed to a long novel. I pay more attention to short stories and I can focus more on every word in the story cause I know it is going to end soon. Unlike long novels where there is a lot of detail and sometimes I tend to skip over some words and not read it as carefully. I also think since short stories only have like 10 or fewer pages to them if you do not read it carefully you may miss an important part of the story. Whereas long novels have a lot of detail and you can still figure out what’s going on in the story.
In the short stories written by Gilman and Chopin, I Paid a lot of attention to all the words and details that went on in those readings. After reading The Yellow Wallpaper I found that I could not skim this story at all because I would miss some of the important aspects of the story. “Then I peeled off all the paper I could reach standing on the floor. It sticks horribly and the pattern just enjoys it. All those strangled heads and bulbous eyes and waddling fungus growths just shriek with derision”(515). This quote from The Yellow Wallpaper shows how important every word of detail is especially since this quote is towards the end of the short story and is pretty much trying to pull the whole story together. This shows how important details and short stories are.
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Yes Blair i totally catch myself doing the same thing when i read short stories versus longer novels. I like how you said that reading the Yellow Wallpaper, which is a story packed with details and a that can be opened for interpretations at time, you cannot allow yourself to skim the reading because the plot is easy to confuse.
ReplyDeleteI completely agree with your approach to reading short stories. It is much more important to pay close attention to every single detail because there is so much riding on every sentence. I liked the quote that you picked from The Yellow Wallpaper and how you said it pulls the entire story together.
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