Fiction Packet three held writings that were extremely
interesting. Starting with “When It Rains It Rains A River” it seems like the
writer compares boys to boys, but not exactly. What I see is that the brothers
in this story are the men, those fully grown and forced out into the world to
fend for themselves. The rain symbolizing the idea that this world is crazy,
there are always storms to brave through. And even though we may have imperfect
minds and we always have room to grow, we are but children in this world no
matter our age, playing in the mud that is life on this Earth. As the story
goes on we read that the boys go to fish in the rain, make up a girl in the
rain, they are muddy. I believe this to mean that the brothers, the men of the
story make a living not only for sustenance, but to create a family. The world
is dirty, and you have to get your hands dirty sometimes in order to create a
life worth living. If not, you might as well be dead already.
“The Singing Fish”, the next writing in this packet is of
course an extension of the previous pages. While the girl, the women are sound
asleep and the men are out to hunt and gather, they come upon the singing fish,
in other words, representation of miracles, knowledge, and confusion in this
world.
As we go on to “What Our Mother Always Told Us”, the mud
becomes something different. It becomes even more prominent. I believe this is
where our parents, mostly our mothers try to protect us from the outside world.
They wish us to be clean of this earth and its chaos, trying to do everything
for us until we deny it so much they let us go out into the world. This story
is interesting because not every mother would care, but ones like these make
the world. Though they try to keep us clean, the human is a stubborn machine
that decides upon itself to become dirty either way.
All of the stories, more so the ones beginning with “The
Falling Girl” explain life in such a simplistic way from the point of view of
children, mothers, teenagers and such. Talking about the beautiful and the ugly
(both people and things in this world), It shows how people grow as the world
grows.
Now why “Death of the Right Fielder” was cut short I could
not say, it begins interesting but yet we are not given the next page by our
packet. The story of a fielder in baseball, his presence not known and noticed
right away, as he was face down on the ground, as there were several theories
as to what killed him, but for some reason the very first the author lists is
being shot…Extremely strange if you ask me.
