When we first started reading this story it was confusing. I felt lost not knowing what the true meaning behind this story was. Reading the article written by the author, he said there would be goodness in the story eventually. Continuing reading the story and stopping to talk about what has happened already. More towards the end the grandma’s words to the Misfit changed the way he is, it had him rethink about the life choices he has made. The first time reading the story I didn’t understand what happened at the end but when I read the article written by the author when he mentioned about a situation where there will be goodness made me realize the goodness was in the Misfit. All throughout the story the family but mostly the grandma did not have any goodness in them. But, the misfit after hearing the grandma last words he changed his mind and told himself that there was no joy in killing anymore.
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2 thoughts on “Arely Vaquero Discussion 9”
I also had the feeling of being lost when we first read the story too. it was very hard to find the meaning of the story. But the way the grandmother found good in the misfit and was able to have the misfit stop killing people. People can’t be all bad or good I think there is just a grey area. Sometimes “evil” people have a certain reason why they ended that way such as trauma.
I believe at the beginning of any story finding the meaning from the first reading requires a ton of skill and experience, which is why we try to re-read them and slowly break down the text to be able to understand and absorb every detail. I believe the ending came at us from left field and did not help with finding the meaning of the text and the assistance of the article really cleared everything for us and made us put the pieces together and led to the discovery of this text meaning.