Billy the Kid
Colors, lighting, and metaphors played a key role in this story. Sally was a woman who was trapped in her own home and though she existed, she never really lived. She seemed to have a big heart and a voice deep inside her but was so closed off to the world from being sheltered by her husband. She was compared to a ghost a lot and floating. This could signify her feeling dead just floating through life. Living in darkness was mentioned numerous times throughout the story. Everything was compared to a color. “The night, the early morning yellow, the gradual move from dark blue at 11 o clock, the new white 4 o clock sun let in, later the gradual growing dark again” (page 5). Some other things are her blue veins, brown tanned feet, yellow pearl of eyes, black with scars, long white dress, and brown boots. Cold and darkness were two very repetitive words. Colors, lighting, and weather all play such an important role when creating feeling when writing. One automatically can put an image in their mind associating mood to color. One is able to feel what the narrator is feeling. Towards the end on Page 7 Billy is taken by John to the room where they kept the animals. They were kept in darkness as well.
“You could peer into a cage and see nothing till a rattle of claws hit the grid an inch from your face and their churning feathers seemed to hiss, and a yellow pearl of an eye cracked with veins glowed through the criss-crossed fence”. I can see how this is being a reference to Sally. Just like the animals Sally is kept in darkness and separated from the rest of the world. I can’t seem to understand John to well. Sally has to be scared of him if she lets him control her life so much.
“And down the room, the parrot begins to talk to itself in the dark, thinking it is night”(page 6). This is another reference to Sally. Just like a parrot, Sally has so much to say but is so closed off. She is trapped, unable to release her inner thoughts to the world. Darkness (John) shields her from living.
Paris to the Moon
This reading was hard to capture my attention and at first I could not get into it. I couldn’t get into his stories at first and maybe it was because I couldn’t relate to them at all. I started to skim it and then actually walked away from it for a little because I was bored. When I took a breather and came back I decided to read it with an open mind. As I was reading I started to connect to his stories. I mean I never been to France or the circus but all of his stories have meaning behind them that led him to write. I think his main message was to express change. It kind of reminded me of “A Native Hill” where the author says “In a metamorphical sense you can’t go home again. It is no longer possible to imagine how the country looked in the beginning”. In Paris to the Moon he talks about his stories as a child in France and how different it is now when he brought his child there. His child will never experience the same memories exactly how he once did and he is expressing what it’s like growing to be aware of that. Memories, stories, and things people experience shape them into who they are and how they view the world. His child is going to gain something completely different from France and the places he was taken. Life is constantly changing as well as the world around us. It is important to take in things and stories as you experience them.
Colors, lighting, and metaphors played a key role in this story. Sally was a woman who was trapped in her own home and though she existed, she never really lived. She seemed to have a big heart and a voice deep inside her but was so closed off to the world from being sheltered by her husband. She was compared to a ghost a lot and floating. This could signify her feeling dead just floating through life. Living in darkness was mentioned numerous times throughout the story. Everything was compared to a color. “The night, the early morning yellow, the gradual move from dark blue at 11 o clock, the new white 4 o clock sun let in, later the gradual growing dark again” (page 5). Some other things are her blue veins, brown tanned feet, yellow pearl of eyes, black with scars, long white dress, and brown boots. Cold and darkness were two very repetitive words. Colors, lighting, and weather all play such an important role when creating feeling when writing. One automatically can put an image in their mind associating mood to color. One is able to feel what the narrator is feeling. Towards the end on Page 7 Billy is taken by John to the room where they kept the animals. They were kept in darkness as well.
“You could peer into a cage and see nothing till a rattle of claws hit the grid an inch from your face and their churning feathers seemed to hiss, and a yellow pearl of an eye cracked with veins glowed through the criss-crossed fence”. I can see how this is being a reference to Sally. Just like the animals Sally is kept in darkness and separated from the rest of the world. I can’t seem to understand John to well. Sally has to be scared of him if she lets him control her life so much.
“And down the room, the parrot begins to talk to itself in the dark, thinking it is night”(page 6). This is another reference to Sally. Just like a parrot, Sally has so much to say but is so closed off. She is trapped, unable to release her inner thoughts to the world. Darkness (John) shields her from living.
Paris to the Moon
This reading was hard to capture my attention and at first I could not get into it. I couldn’t get into his stories at first and maybe it was because I couldn’t relate to them at all. I started to skim it and then actually walked away from it for a little because I was bored. When I took a breather and came back I decided to read it with an open mind. As I was reading I started to connect to his stories. I mean I never been to France or the circus but all of his stories have meaning behind them that led him to write. I think his main message was to express change. It kind of reminded me of “A Native Hill” where the author says “In a metamorphical sense you can’t go home again. It is no longer possible to imagine how the country looked in the beginning”. In Paris to the Moon he talks about his stories as a child in France and how different it is now when he brought his child there. His child will never experience the same memories exactly how he once did and he is expressing what it’s like growing to be aware of that. Memories, stories, and things people experience shape them into who they are and how they view the world. His child is going to gain something completely different from France and the places he was taken. Life is constantly changing as well as the world around us. It is important to take in things and stories as you experience them.
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