After reading a couple of Aimee Bender's short stories I have found that she is a very interesting author. Bender takes real life situations and adds a magical twist to them. She is insanely creative and I have enjoyed every single one of her stories that we are assigned to read. One if her stories that we discussed in class was called "End of the Line". A very interesting point brought up about this particular story was how the little man has more power than the big man. You would think that because the little man is so much smaller than the big man that he would be less powerful just because of his size. The big man actually is jealous of the little man mainly because that is the life he wants. The little man has a family, has traveled to many places, and is very intellegent. On the other hand the big man is the complete opposite. He is lonely because he doesn't have a family, he is too nervous to go travel anywhere, and he is not quite as smart as the little man. I like how the magical twist in this tale is that there is a little man and a big man. That was very amusing to me.
In the second tale "Fruit and Words", Aimee Bender starts off the story with a girl, stood up by her husband in Las Vegas, after they got married. He mysteriously had to fly back home for work while she was forced to drive back all by herself. I thought that it was very interesting that this little shop in the middle of the desert has all of these gases and emotions shaped as the word. I don't think that it is possible to capture hope and shape it into its name. I think that hope is something a person can feel but not something that a person can capture and form into a shape. That is one of the main things in this story that keeps my interest. I really enjoy these stories becasuse of how creative they are and also becasue they keep me on my toes wanting to know what else is coming next.
Jaime Wallace- Post #6
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