In Class Reading-June 25th

For in class reading, I chose to write about the short story, The Girl with the Blackened Eye. I chose this story mainly because it reminds of some of the shows that I watch on Dateline. I was really sad after reading this story. I felt like I was there watching everything happen to this girl at the time who was telling her story as a grown-up woman now. I couldn’t believe some of the depth and description that the author went into either. I found it disturbing but at the same time, I felt sympathy too. I felt like I wanted to go rescue her from that awful cabin. I also couldn’t believe that she didn’t want to remember that part of her past. I know it must have been awful for her but at the same time; it’s something that you can never really forget. Like most of the people on Dateline, they say it’s always going to be there and the internal pain will never go away. Most of them feel scared to leave their homes now or they always usually can picture those long days of being gone. They can never be erased from their memory. Even if something is really gruesome, disgusting or violent, I want to continue reading it to find out what happens. It's like the narrator in "A Party Down at the Square" had toward the lynching. You don't like it, but you can't really bring yourself to do anything about it.