And so the little girl took an automatic out of her basket...

This wasn't as exciting as the other texts we've read. I guess just because it wasn't a story, it did not immediately grab my attention, or seem too intriguing to me. But, I surprised myself by finding some things in this part of the chapter that I liked, or found interesting.
The first paragraph had such a great point! I mean, I've sort of always known what it was saying, but I've never brought that information to the front of my mind, you know?
We want texts to mean something.
I mean, of course we do. If we read story that has no meaning, or one that's just dull (like Professor Corrigan's first "breaking into my own house" story), we don't like it. It's just not good. But have we ever really thought about how we want every story to mean something?
And we can't simply summarize a story with one word, or one sentence (again, like Professor Corrigan's first story) because we lose the essence of what the story is. Yeah, we get what happened--the bare bones of it, the jist, the plain facts. But that's not what makes the story, is it?
If we translate a poem into a statement, we risk losing the very qualities that made it a poem.
Like Professor Corrigan said, "A story goes beyond what you can just summarize."
Continuing to learn more from this class,
Anna Marie

PS: IF you honestly did not read this section, read it. Especially the Little Red Hiding Hood rendition titled "The Girl and the Wolf." It's quite humorous.

Favorite Quote: "So the little girl took an automatic out of her basket and shot the wolf dead."