Little Things by Raymond Carver

I don’t think Carver many literary devices in this short story, but we can say that there is visual imagery because he paints the picture of a possibly a couple, one about to leave, and a child in between, which in my opinion also creates unpleasant sentiments, because of the image that has been created in your head. Moreover, the baby and the two persons may be working as symbolism for the difference between nature and humans, soil being the baby; nature wants the soil to grow its creation, and humans want soil because they believe its entitled to them since they are the only rational creatures, and that because of their rationality they have dominion over all else in world including land. Synecdoche may also be in use since the baby represents a person as a whole. Finally, I think meiosis is definitely in use, since the characters of the story fight for a baby and hurt the infant in the process, and this is played out if it was something to take lightly, as if screaming, go away! is going to help the problem. I don’t think I’m far off in asserting that in real life, one would immediately call the police or something, or proceed solving the situation in a manner which does not harm the child.
            His writing style in this particular short story seemed strange; he wrote it in third person because he was narrating the story. And the ended was a sharp one, meaning that it was sudden, it was out of nowhere, and it didn’t have a solution, it ended in the characters just fighting for the child.

A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

This pic was taken in San Diego, and it remind me of the story of the old man with large wings because he was described as captive at one point of his life, and people would have to pay in order to see him, in the same way the shark reminded me of the old man with wings because people pay too see this shark.

The second pic is meant to excite sentiments in the viewer. I can only image how the old man must have felt, he must have felt alone and lost in a world in which he is not a native from. So i thought that if one would go outside the planet, one would probably see this, and that person would feel alone, and insignificant in the vast universe, due to its small size in relation to the rest of the substances that are out there.

Conformity vs. Rebellion

There are times in a human life, where one has to give in into conformity, maybe due to peer pressure, or just free will. In my case, high school has probably been the four years that I have fallen into conformity the most. It was a phase of my life in which following what was cool or having new things created an appearance in my spirit which formed new qualities of my persona. This was probably due to the fact that my mind was furnishing itself with new ideas and concepts, and in which everyone’s properties seemed acceptable and even worth pursuing.

It’s funny how it takes me longer to think of a time in which I have stood up (not literally) and not given in. But I would like to recognize that I have had many self-realizations in the past few months, which has placed me in a situation in which I have doubted many things I do and say, and I have ask myself, why do I do this, or why is this the way it is, attempting to answer such questions have made me realize that there are many things that we do because the majority of us do it, so I have propose myself to carb my own thoughts of things which will hopefully lead me to a new life in which I am in full command.