This short story anthology is a collection of stories, which show step by step plot driven stories that follow traditional plot, but also being bad and dark, leaving the reader with a disturbing image, which does not replicate what many short stories are written about today. The stories I choose to include in my anthology are: “Where are you going Where have you been” by Joyce Carol Oates, “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” by Flannery O’Connor, “The Other Place” by Mary Gaitskill, “The Things They Carried” by Tim O’brien, “Jumper Down” by Don Shea, “Jens” by Ross Nervig and Encounters with the Unexpected Animals” by Anthony Johnson. All these stories share a dark element within them making them all connect, leaving a perfect fit for this anthology.
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I choose this story because we are left with sort of a cliff hanger unpleasant finish. As the story ends we can conclude that she is dying and going to going to heaven because it states “Connie had never seen before and did not recognize except to know that she was going to it.” This story really fits the anthology because reading about a girl being kidnapped is no joke and really gets the readers full attention. A quote by Raymond Carver states “I like it when there is some feeling of threat or sense of menace in short stories. I think a little menace is fine to have in a story.” This quote really fits the story because we know can sense something bad is going to happen to Connie. This really helps guide the anthology because it fits perfect with normal plot in a story but at the same time it also shows the menace and threat which is nice to see throughout different short …show more content…
This story is also very disturbing and horrific, especially because the whole family has ended up dying which also shocks the readers. O’Connor comments “We hear many complaints about the prevalence of violence in modern fiction, and it is always assumed that this violence is a bad thing and meant to be an end in itself. With the serious writer, violence is never an end in itself.” This quote really shows what this story is all about, even though everyone dies and it does not seem like a happy story it tries to bring a better message across that violence can be used truly for more than just
I choose this story because we are left with sort of a cliff hanger unpleasant finish. As the story ends we can conclude that she is dying and going to going to heaven because it states “Connie had never seen before and did not recognize except to know that she was going to it.” This story really fits the anthology because reading about a girl being kidnapped is no joke and really gets the readers full attention. A quote by Raymond Carver states “I like it when there is some feeling of threat or sense of menace in short stories. I think a little menace is fine to have in a story.” This quote really fits the story because we know can sense something bad is going to happen to Connie. This really helps guide the anthology because it fits perfect with normal plot in a story but at the same time it also shows the menace and threat which is nice to see throughout different short …show more content…
This story is also very disturbing and horrific, especially because the whole family has ended up dying which also shocks the readers. O’Connor comments “We hear many complaints about the prevalence of violence in modern fiction, and it is always assumed that this violence is a bad thing and meant to be an end in itself. With the serious writer, violence is never an end in itself.” This quote really shows what this story is all about, even though everyone dies and it does not seem like a happy story it tries to bring a better message across that violence can be used truly for more than just