I
like how the author did such a great job of creating the emotion and suspense
in this story. I wonder how much of the feeling we get comes from the setting
of the story, like this small place where everybody sees her and the kid, but
instead how much comes out just through the simple emotions throughout the
text. I felt a mystery through the character the little boy, it almost would
seem throughout the story that he wanted this art of freedom, and the mom was
rally attached like when he almost drowned in the beginning of the text. When
she went into the water to save him, almost felt as if he was disappointed and
wanted the freedom to save himself. The author was very descriptive in bringing
the scenes to life, this is a story that you can’t really read just once or
straight through. It's short but filled with many different scenes, either you
would need moments of going back, or reading the text over again. Something
that has been drawing my attention is characters, and characters... How we get
to really know the character well. Sh'khol sets the story for us, answers the
questions before the story begins to unfold. Who is this character? Is she
married? Why is the boy deaf? So they answer our questions before going deeper,
into the story. What I notice in my drafts at times I tend to leave those blank
spaces, not bringing a character enough existence for you to even feel his/ her
emotions. This is important and it sticks out to me, because when we read
stories we read them from our world, draw in our own experiences personal
baggage experiences, and live them through these characters. But if you don’t
give your character this substance then we can’t really live through them.
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