The first story in this packet reminded me of the creation of the world. The two boys that were playing in the mud seem to be making the creatures that roam the earth. Then they create the girl out of mud. They watch her wake up at night and see the two moons that are her eyes. Inside of her, they see another girl, they say that there is a sister for each of them. They dive into the moons and the moons shatter into a billion pieces and each piece turns into a star. The brothers do everything in their power to make the girl happy. This story also has sexual undertones. It also serves to say that men were created to serve women instead of the other way around.
The next story that I found interesting was “The Falling Girl”. This story makes me think of people who move to fast in life and meet their deaths earlier than they should. The main character Marta, is 19 years old. She is wealthy and popular but wants more. Marta wants to be at the biggest parties and is always on the go. Her friends try to get her to slow down but she ignores them. She feels like she is falling into the world and missing everything that can make her life better. Marta also noticed that there are other girls falling as well, however they are falling faster than her and they are dressed way better than her. To me, this story speaks to the saying “More money, more problems.”, she feels that because she does not have enough or dressed good enough, she is not good enough. The man towards the bottom of the building says that you can only see the young girls at the top and the old women at the bottom. It seems as that as the girls fall, time takes over and they age as they waste their time racing towards stuff that they don’t even need.
I found a lot of stories in the fiction packet to be very interesting and complex. It was somethings that I could not understand, the story ” Singing Fishes” and the first story were very hard for me to understand and the meaning of these stories escape me. However, the other stories were easy to get the meaning of. I liked the packet as a whole.
Briana N. Smith 