fiction packet 3

When we were doing poetry I didn't have that much of an interest but now that we've moved onto fiction stories I'm extremely interested. From the fiction packet 3 there were two stories that I enjoyed the most. The first was "the singing fish" and the second was "the falling girl". Both had interesting elements to them and they stood out the most of all the short stories.

The singing fish upon first read was very confusing. When i read it a second time i realized if you replace certain words like "fish" with human it makes much more sense. They're talking about going into a cave and seeing all these markings and talking about how words have other meanings. A direct quote for this is "isn't every thing a word hidden and hiding as something else?". This shows that the point of the story is to try to say even if someone shows or says something it has many meanings and it might not be the one we originally think of. I like this concept because everyday we see huge misunderstandings and if everyone just thought of this there would be much less fighting or disputes.

The falling girl was my favorite story of them all. The fact that it's symbolism for a girl who has all these life decisions and she passes them up and all of a sudden she's old is intriguing. What I get out of it is that life is full of opportunities and it might not necessarily be what we envisioned but we shouldn't pass them up. If this happens then our life will feel meaningless and full of regrets. Everyone wants to be remembered and looked up upon but the only way to do this is to fully accept who we are and do what we have to do. When she doesn't make a splatter or sound when she hits the ground lets me think that her life had no impact on anything. I think this story is full of symbolism and can be taken anyway but that's what I get out of it.