Welcome to the blog for Prof. John Talbird's English 221 class. The purpose of this site is two-fold: 1) to continue the conversations we start in class (or to start conversations BEFORE we get to class) and 2) to practice our writing/reading on a weekly basis in an informal forum.
Saturday, March 19, 2016
Reflections on Small Fictions
I never thought I would enjoy reading small fictions the way I did after finally finishing the BSM. I was under a very small impression that it would make any difference to how I read fiction these days. Until I started to realize there was a lot of things I was learning by these small one to maybe three pages of fiction. Over the years I started to have such short attention spans to read an actual fiction novel because it all always started so slow to get to something worth reading. Each fiction story had me wanting to know more about what is supposed to happen to the characters or themselves. I found that I started knowing more about myself by whatever conclusions I thought was happening. Even when we was in class discussing about these stories, you kind of get to see what kind of thought process my classmates had. The qualities I've noticed with this genre were that almost all the fictions had a realistic characteristics about them. Most of the stories consisted of things that can actually occur in places, with people or animals in a believable setting. You as a reader was able to connect with the story very well in more than one various way. The characters seemed like real people with real issues, trying to solve in a very realistic way. I believe because of this quality alone, a lot of us were able to relate so much with the stories that made us draw into it so well. But many of us also we're confused at some parts when the stories would end so abruptly or was written in a very vague manner. This was also very entertaining because it had me agitated and wanting to know more about what is supposed to happen next. Unfortunately, I would never get that kind of closure. Which is okay. The way everything was written just allows me to use my imagination to figure out more ways than none.
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