The Still Was Not As Bad As It Could Be

This story was like a close up of things because everything is very descriptive when the old man searches for matches or the conversation the old man has with what it seems like a Latina. But in general I was impressed because you never know what is behind things much of the times you just think about the obvious things and the things that happen as a routine in all the world that is maybe because we are part of the routine and we really don’t realize what life really is because we haven’t had to really life it. In this story is for me like most of the people who really have to work that for them the normal things like sleeping at night or reading a book at night is not the common but instead working and feeling cold and killing or being bullied is the normal and they have the opportunity to see the two faces of reality the hard and the normal part of it whether most of us just see the normal one and we stick to that for life until we bang against the world and there is where we really know what is life and reality.

I also liked how the author approached the title because at the end the train was the closing moment it’s the back to normal part back to being common and just another person not like before in the story where they are somebody who suffers who kills who smokes who talks etcc..

3 Is Like 1

This story is basically the story of how an alcoholic ruins its life. For me this story was more than the wife helping his ex to unplug his ears it s more like the opportunity to describe how an alcoholic behaves. Because we can see how he finds any second or any excuse to go and drink. He also thinks that only because he drinks champagne which morally would be less aggressive than lets say rum doesn’t mean that he is no hurting himself he is because he drinks like 3 bottles per day so what is the difference. We also can see how everything starts changing he sleeps a lot so much that he plug his ears because he has been so much time lying down in that side of his head.

 

There’s a moment in the story that Inez tries to talk to him about stuff, which involved them, and she couldn’t even talk to him because he was like in another planet. I think that being and living with an alcoholic must be very difficult because they are not in a normal mind state they cannot think right.

 

 

 

Camel Back Riding

This short story has many sides to it because you can interpret it in many different ways first of all how the author uses Myers son as an excuse to be able to tell the story because at the end we don’t really know what eventually happens if he re unites with his son if he just passes the station were he had to go down or what. At first we get he feeling that the story is all about how father and son were separated because of his fault but then it starts sounding weird because they haven’t talked for a long time and then all of a sudden Myers receives a letter form his son but as the story continues you realize the story revolves around another setting and subject and that is the train.

 

 

This story reminded me to one time that we were on a trip through Europe and we were half the trip after we had gone everywhere to Egypt and had gone camel back riging and million places and we left our camera there like in a seat in my jacket and I went ot the bathroom and when I got back it wasn’t there it was the worst because all our trip had been recorded in that camera.

Preservation Or Renovation

I was really connected with this short story because I don’t know why I related it to feminism and to Colombian men. How women work and are capable to sustain the house without saying a word and Sandy’s husband just lies in his bed all day, while Sandy works and on top of that she gets home to cook dinner. One day she gets home and almost everything in the fridge is damage because her husband wasn’t even able to clean the fridge, and we are so noble Sandy doesn’t even say anything. If Sandy would’ve been the one who stayed at home she would never have let that happened.

But everything wasn’t as bad for this family because even though the fridge broke they after that were able to go to an auction which was a very important time for Sandy because it remembered her to her father and had the opportunity to buy a new one.

Chefs House: Is It About Love

This story ended a little bit weird but after thinking about it I realized that it all rounded up to a single point. In this story Wes an alcoholic goes to live in a house far away to stay sober and live a better life and invites his wife to the house. Throughout the book we can see an evolution about Edna’s way of thinking. At first Edna is not sure she wants the old Wes back and their old way of living back but he as an alcoholic won’t do it.” I found myself wishing the summer wouldn’t end. I knew better, but after a month of being with Wes in Chef’s house, I put my wedding ring back on. I hadn’t worn the ring in two years. Not since the night Wes was drunk and threw his ring into a peach orchard.” (pg. 28) This is a clear example that she was happy again with his love.

At the end when Chef tells them they have to get out of the house and the think or are sacred that maybe everything is going to be over they kind of realize that good things don’t last forever but that they two do and that they can do everything together. “Wes got up and pulled the drapes and the ocean was gone just like that. I went to start supper. We still had some fish in the icebox. There wasn’t much else. We’ll clean it up tonight, I thought, and that will be the end of it.” (pg 33) This is how the book ends but you can feel how the story continues meaning that the house made them reconciliate and the story is about the house not about the couple that’s why it ends like inconclusive.

Feathers: Was That The Only Problem

It narrates a story that happens to all of us in a sense that everyone of us or at least everyone that has had a relationship not necessary a girlfriend simply a relationship has had to go through dinners like this one which is boring with people that are not you’re kind of people and where you feel out of place but are those kinds of things you have to do but that everything goes wrong. Or they just start kind of weird. Like for example the first you meet your parents in law that is the most awkward situation or when you’re asked to please go with your grandmother or mother to visit a really old relative that in the moment you enter the room its weird.

I also noticed or what I think is that the whole thing about the baby and the dinner and Olla implies us something and it is that she is never going to have babies and in fact that is what they tell us at the end of the story but I got the feeling in the whole story that it wanted to make a point to prove something and the why about it in this case how Fran felt about having babies. For example when Fran says that she hasn’t even met his nephew or all of the things she says about Ollas baby when if you where thinking of being a mother would have a different attitude towards the baby meaning that instead of saying it was ugly maybe she would’ve said like oh his mother loves him so much and also would’ve said something like you would love your son no matter what. And Fran was disgusted with the bird also everything was going wrong with the dinner becauise she was predisposed.

Rich Or Poor

In this part of the handbook I really liked because he talks of differenht ways to see things and that is very important for you to succeed in life for example in number 43 "Everything has to handles, one by which it may be carried and the other not." This is really true because everything that happens in life good or bad has two ways in wich a person can see them. And I really think that this makes you either happy or sad. Theres many times in which we atke things more serously than what they really are and this would make the difference between fighting or not. Theres another part I really liked that is when he says that because " you're richer you're superior" which would be invalid but instead if you say that if you're richer would mean that you're poperties are superior that yours would be a more appropiate assumption.


He also talks about how sometimes men behave in a lazy manner like if they were smaller thyan what they really are and I really agree on this because it really true that you always have to act older than what you are and always be prepared to be able to confront life situation in which you will not always be able to handle but there sometimes that if you approach certain situations in an older way it will always be easier to deal with and obviously mature. "If you now neglect things and are lazy and are always making delay after delay and set one day after another as the day for paying attention to yourself, then without realizing it you will make no progress but will end up a non-philosopher all through life and death. So decide now that you are worthy of living as full-groen man who is making progress, and make everything that seems bes be a law that you cannot go against." (pg. 28) This quote totally says how people should think to keep on and to have purposes because I really think that you should always propose higher standards that what you think you can achieve.

Decisions For Fortune

The point he makes about fortune telling is totally right because and I have been impressed with this text because I have seen that even though it was written long time ago it still has to do with now a days it is applicable with things we see today in movies or in books. Its is unbelievable that even in these days many years after this was written people still believe in things like fortune tellers. On number 33 it talks about not trusting basically anyone and to not talk or laugh more than necessary I really don't believe it is applicable in these days because for those days the only ones who really had a word were the kings and queens and nobody else nut now a days everyone says everything they have in their mind no matter what and I like it that way its interesting and I think its a really useful way to be able to know about everything and the more you know about things the more cultured person you become.

I think that whatever you are going to do do it it with pride and that is basically what Epictetus says on number 35 which I think is were many problems start because people just don't do the things de frente but they hide it like if they were afraid of something and that is being a coward. Number 37 says " If you undertake some role beyond your capacity, you both disgrace yourself by taking it and also thereby neglect the role that you were unable to take." I interpreted this as being humble which is really a virtue that helps us a lot in life to learn to know ourselves and to know what each and every one of us is able to do and when to do it so you cant just get any job when you are not prepared for it and there's nothing wrong in admitting you cant with that specific job there's going to be a lot of other jobs which will fit perfectly for you.

I You And The Rest

This section of the hand book was very interesting because it talks in a very radical way which I like and that sometimes we don't see because we many times think with our heart when we really don't have to. For example in number 23 that it says that " If it ever happens that you turn outward to want to please another person, certainly you have lost your plan of life." (pg. 17) I think that to please other persons is really comforting you feel good everybody likes that the persons they love are happy and more if there is something you can do to make that person you love even happier its a good feeling. For example if your mom is sad and you give her a chocolate and she smiles hats the best feeling you can have. I also think that there's lots of things that you do are you don't that come from your heart and are inevitable and that if you don't do they will be on you for the rest of your life.

On number 29 it says "For each action,  consider what leads up to it and what follows it, and approach it in the light of that. Otherwise you will come to it enthusiastically at first, since you have not borne in mind any of what will happen next, but late when difficulties turn up you will give up disgracefully. You want to win Olympic victory? I do too, by the gods, since that is a fine thing. But consider what leads up to it and what follows it, and undertake the action in the light of that. You must be disciplined, keep a strict diet, stay away from cakes...." (pg.19) I love this one because I really think that it is the key to succeed in life and your work always to think beyond and in the present and the example they give there explains it perfectly and it is a very realistic way to approach dreams and decisions.

To Be Or Not To Be

After reading the handbook I really thoguht it is a difficult text to read but it s very interesting beacuse the way they thinked about things and the way they saw life I have found it is really interesting for example number 10 I found really wise advice and not only situating yourselfs in that time but also for life today. It says that whatever you do if you do it constantly you will eventually get used to it and then it will become automatic he tells us that if you become used to self control, endurance, and patience. Then you will beocme used to it and will not be carried away by appearances, which is really the greatest problem wich I think affect some ourselves by thinking and letting outer things influence us, but for every one of us to be able to develop certain characteristics we have to be exposed to situations that most of the time are really hurtful "If hardship comes to you you will find endurance."(pg.14) To be strong you have to face a hard situation . I think its like if you dont know white then you cant know black thats the same with this situations. 

I really agreed with most of the points of this part even though I thought there were some that were pretty harsh because they are really extreme that only talk about one selve. Like number six "Dont be joyfull about any superiority that is not your own." This paper also prepares yourselve to death and how neither you or the ones you love will live forever. 

True Or Not True

In this chapter we see how the final and only veredict is given and how he has the ocnversation with the father about god and about he should hold on to god to get over everything about jail. We see how in a moment his lawyer says about the trial that he didnt understand if they were really triyng him because of a murder or because he was bad wih his mother. But I think these two events are pretty connectd because one thing has to do with the other because its a way to prove his attitude towards life and how he approaches thigns so its obvious that they included that into the trial. Everyone knew he had killed the guy so they had to prove if it had been in self defense or notand what a better wya to prove it than to prove that his personality was going to let him act the way he did. And the best exaple for it was the way he acted with his mother because if he acted like that with his mother then it had to be obvious that he was going to be able to hurt anyone wothout any remorse.