My Friend Dahmer

Very interesting. I was captivated from beginning to end, hurrying to change the page as fast as possible to know what happens next. I found it especially eerie that when he dropped Dahmer off that night, there was a dismembered body lying in the trunk a few yards away from his car. Or the ironic moment of "he's probably a serial killer by now" "hahaha"... 

The Yellow Wallpaper

I greatly enjoyed this story. There's nothing better than a tale of a woman who is overpowered by the men in her life and made to sit in a room all day and do nothing. Then, to everyone's apparent surprise, she goes insane. Who saw that coming!? I did... You try sitting in a room doing nothing but staring at the walls all day and having no power to control your life whatsoever because both your husband and your brother are overly controlling. Then you come to me and tell me you're not insane. 

Presidential Debate

The final debate was a good recap of the previous debates. First and foremost, my most prominent observation was that McCain was mistaken in regards to a lot of Obama's stances. Basically, in regards to health care, Obama wants to set up a huge pool of money that you can buy into and then the money will be divided among everyone based on need, whereas McCain wants to make it more dynamic and give out a 5000 dollar tax refund for health care. As far as abortion is concerned, McCain is unrealistically against abortion and wants to ban it in all forms and overturn Roe v. Wade. Obama agrees with Roe v. Wade and wants to raise awareness to reduce abortions but leave the option open saying "no one is pro abortion, it is always a painful choice." Obama wants to give a $4000 credit to all college students to aid in their payments so long as they complete some sort of community service. He also says that he wants to have more charter school to raise competition, but McCain says that money is not the answer and we need a lot of reform in the place of more money. They both want to fire bad teachers and increase competition among schools and teachers but Obama was the one who said we should raise salaries for teachers. They both want to pour money into alternative fuel sources, McCain seemed to have a more of a structured plan including wind turbines and nuclear power, but wants to do some off-shore drilling first. Once again I am completely torn because I agree wholeheartedly with about half of both campaigns and despise the rest of their plans. well, now that you know the facts, "Go vote now, it'll make you feel big and strong."

What You Pawn I Shall Redeem

At the opening of the story the main character's voice seems sort of drab. He speaks as if he wants to tell a story, but he keeps talking about himself in a way that suggests that his story is just an ordinary one. He seems so excited to talk to someone that he's happy with just that, and doesn't really need to tell the story at all. However, at the end of the story he is on top of the world! He feels like his story is the most extraordinary one he could have told. He feels as though the entire world has stopped around him to watch as he dances. Cars stop and people stop to watch. He completely ignores the fact that the cars stopped because he probably wandered onto the road and people are watching wondering what he is doing, not looking at him dance.

The Girl Next Door

I believe that he let the little girl into his apartment because he felt bad for her. He wanted to comfort her, and show her that the world is not such a terrible place. He was a little naive in his decision and his mother was absolutely correct. A twenty-six year old man should not be spending that much time together, especially not behind closed doors, and especially not on a daily basis. She could have ruined his life in exactly the way that his mother described and he was right to leave immediately, before anything happened.