Blog 12

       One theme found in the story "Hanging Fire" is being along/ isolation. It talks about a fourteen year girl who is having teenage issues about herself and fears that she going to die at any moment, maybe because its due her social issues. Her state of mind is more about worrying about not growing up because she has braces, dry skin and the boy who she can't live without still sucks his thumb. It more internal problems with herself  as  she struggles to hold on to herself by second guessing or worried about what others think. Then her "mamma's in the bedroom with the door closed", it could symbolize she is keeping her feelings to herself and not telling her mother or she is keeping secrets from her mother that she doesn't want her to know or maybe its just could be her mother keeping to herself and not really being there for her kids.
       Then the author Audre Lorde, writes how a teenager life is hard and it can be a struggle because you can be alone/ isolated from others or just becoming more of an outcast. The character has this feeling of being depress and sad because she feels alone, then in the story she is going to a party and had to learn how to dance. So she is not alone but more afraid that she going to make a mistake and get made fun of and low her confidence level.

Blog 11

         One theme found in the story of "Don't Be Disrespecting Me" is respect. The story is about two boys named Erin and Noodles, who are living in poor condition and everyone around them is making fun of them because they don't fit in due to their old clothes that they wear. Noodles is a hustler to women, by getting them to buy him anything he wants but Erin just wanted  to fit in.  Noodles is all bout respect and his full of pride, in the story Erin is talking to Ona and Noodles bump into him Erin says " Man. Ain't you got no manners?" Noodles wanted to fight Erin right then and there. He didn't like being embarrassed. but he kept his hand to his side ' cause Erin was his boy" (pg.86).
          Noodles isn't the type of guy who wouldn't forgive and forget, he some how has a score to settle, even if it is his best friend Erin. Erin tells Noodles what happens when Erin went to go talk to Ona parents and when Noodles is hearing this, he feels disrespected that Ona parents treated Erin with little respect. Noodles then come up with the idea to trash and rob Ona place then right before the dance Erin and Noodle are going to jail breaking and entering some one home, but Noodles didn't care all he cared about was getting respect.

Hills Like White Elephants

          One theme found in the story " Hills Like White Elephants"  is choices/Decision. In the story  the man and the women are talking about an operation of choosing if they want and operation or not. They both are talking to each other about choosing to do it but in the story the women was trying to ask permission on having the operation but the man was pressuring to choose to have an operation. Ernest Hemingway talks about the choices or the decision to make in one life, as it could be a choices of going to the movies with your friends or staying home. From the story "Hills Like White Elephants" to real life, as we all deal with choices that we have to make.