Comparing 'Popular Mechanics And Jim'

It wasn't until the end of Popular Mechanics that I was truly was brought into the story. The final line drew me further into the story and made me think. I was impressed that a single line he was able to make this simplistic piece so much more memorable. I admired him, I admire this style of his so much that I wanted to mimic it, but that proved to be too difficult as I will later explain. I did however know from the beginning that I wanted to keep his ending, therefore I added it to the ending of my story.
Early upon the planning stages of writing this paper, I couldn’t help but noticed the similarities between Popular Mechanics (Carver, 28) and “Jim” (Bolano, 42), more specifically the fact that they both had an open ending. I leaped for joy, so to speak, when I realized that I could easily fuse these two stories together. With the addition of “Jim” to my story, this proved to be quite the challenge, therefore I opted out of Carver’s minimalist style to better combine the two stories together, consequently, what is lost is the simplicity of the narrative to make the justification or rather the combination of both Jim and Popular Mechanics work. Carver's modern …show more content…
I tried desperately to make sure that little could be lost by my additional “two”