This week in class we read Aimee Bender's "Ironhead" and "Motherfucker". Both dealt with characters who were outcasts in their own sense. Ironhead was different because he was born to a family of pumpkin head's and he himself had an iron for a head. He has difficulties fitting in because there is no one that looks like him. He is made fun of by everyone around him and is alone a lot. I think that is death due to his large head at the end if the story signifies how much he kept bottled up inside and eventually it became too much for him to handle.
Motherfucker is about a man who likes to have sex with single moms. He does this a lot with many different woman and the sex means absolutely nothing to him. I think that he likes single moms because they are so vulnerable and easy to get with. He eventually does fall for a woman named Starlet but in the end loses her. Although I think that he actually did like Starlet a lot, I believe that he has had casual relationships for so long he forgot how to actually have feelings for someone.
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