Since it was not clear what we were suppose to post on this week I am going to guess that it was the essay packet reading. When I asked in class you said that the differents between fiction and an essay was that fiction was made up, but the things spoken of in an essay actually happened. The first story, Red: an Invocation, was a little obsesive but perfectly realistic, I suppose. The next two based on memories of family, the last of the short essays was based on history, mythology and fact, but like too many of the stories in the packets you give us had an abupt end due to the packet not containing the entire text.

    The first long essay gave new meaning to essay as defined above. What was written was very probably what happened but like the first story also elaborated on, making the essay less about what happened and more about how the narrator felt about what happened, what the event put made the narrator think. although I am fairly sure the event was someones death it is interesting to note that besides the death of the fly, which presumably happened while the narrator was writing, the event this peice is about is never really adressed.


    The last story is of course not only the longest but a mixture of near all the styles here to used. It is the reacounting of a memory, with historical, mythical, and pratical references, and a whole lot of emotion and thought written down to suplement the raw facts of the event. The narrator even tells us what she thought and did before and after the event to give us more context and closer. I also really liked her reference to the birth of Jesus, saying sending the shepards a letter with an angel on it would not make them "sore afraid," I just love bible quotes.