Introduction to The Literary Studio
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 6th, 2019
“Burning Bright” by Ron Rash is a story told in a third person limited point of view. It gives us the inside of a middle-aged woman named Marcie. Marcie is a widow who ends up getting married two years after her first husband Arthur died of a heart attack. This was a tough time for […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 27th, 2019
This week one of the stories we read was “Yours” by Mary Robinson. In this short story we read about a young woman named Allison and her older husband Clark; they carve pumpkins together and enjoy the view from their porch. At the end we learn why Allison wears a wig, which is because she […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 24th, 2019
“It’s Bad Luck to Die” by Elizabeth McCracken is a short story of the narrator’s “meet-cute” with her current husband Tiny, a tattoo artist that was nearly three times her senior at the time. This is her remembering it as a middle-aged-ish woman after Tiny had died. Her friend Babs was dared by her crazy boyfriend […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 23rd, 2019
What do you do when you see a parent do something bad? Something as bad as killing a man in his own living room? It feels wrong to tell the truth, they’re your parent, and telling a lie feels almost worse. Theres no handbook on how to act when a parent does something bad right […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 23rd, 2019
Elizabeth McCracken’s “It’s Bad Luck to Die” is a story told from a first-person point of view and filled with symbolism. Almost immediately, readers can tell the story is written in the past tense. Lois, the narrator begins by speaking about a few of her tattoos that her late husband created on her body. The […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 23rd, 2019
You’d be surprised who you’d fall in love with. Louis was an 18-year-old girl who went into a tattoo shop and met the love of her life. His name was Tiny. Tiny was a 49-year old tattoo artist who loved his work. He was tattooing her cousin “Babs” which is short for Abigail. Babs was […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 23rd, 2019
Optimists by Richard Ford begins with a man named, Frank, looking back on the events of his past. At the time he was only 15 years old, so while portraying these events he already knows the outcome. He begins discussing the possibility of his father losing his job at the railroad, and his outlook upon it. […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 23rd, 2019
In Richard Fords story Optimists he is writing about himself looking back into his life as a 15-year-old boy that is forty-three years old now. He uses dénouement by starting us off with background of information and allowing us to build up to this main idea and plot. He is very descriptive on his past, which is […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 22nd, 2019
“It’s Bad Luck to Die” by Elizabeth McCracken is a relatively touching story in the viewpoint of the wife of a much older tattoo artist. Lois meets Tiny when she goes with her cousin Babs, who gets a tiny red and black bow inked onto her butt. The two fell for each other quickly and […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 17th, 2019
The Importance of Education By: Britt Larson So-called peers look down on you. You are called ignorant, foolish and dumb. Doors that you may want to walk through have been barricaded or slammed in your face, impeding your passage. It is a never ending source of shame to face, as it is brought up […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 17th, 2019
One of the stories we were assigned for reading was “The First Day” by Edward P. Jones. In this short story, Jones recalls the first day of kindergarten for a little girl, with descriptions ranging from the weather and scenery to the emotions that she felt as well as what he thought his mom was […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 16th, 2019
Picture day was my worst nightmare in second grade. It was a nice Tuesday morning and the birds in the house were chirping. When I had woke up that morning I was super excited to get ready for picture day but my mom wasn’t. After I had got out of the shower I was ready […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 16th, 2019
The opening lines of “Rara Avis” by Boyle are instantly captivating. He used words to paint a beautiful picture of this mysterious bird perched upon the furniture store. For a moment it almost seems like his is describing some supernatural being or goddess type figure. The way the citizens of his town react supports the […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 16th, 2019
The short story by Edward P. Jones entitled “The First Day” presents a girl’s recollection of her first day of kindergarten. Some of the things she notes are how long her mother spent on her hair and what she was wearing. Similar to her, I also have a very strong memory of my first day of […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 16th, 2019
Starting off reading “New day” by Edward P. Jones, I was instantly taken in by how much I could relate to the narrator telling about her five-year-old life. Some of my fondest memories were of my mom braiding my own and my sisters hair. I remember the smell of hair grease when whipping my hair […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 7th, 2019