Blog #2

"A Temporary Matter"
-Jhumpa Lahiri 

      For me i personally like a story that throws the reader right in . I enjoy knowing the characters right away and having them be relate-able. Other than that i enjoy stories that begin in such a crazy fantasy like way that its hard to not read. I enjoyed the beginning of Lahiri's story because I felt compassion towards the characters and I felt as if their situation was very easy to relate upon. When I read the line "The baby had been born dead." (pg 322)  it hit me hard. Automatically I was forced to read on to see how this couple dealt with this tragedy. 

     One of my all time favorite novels is "The Great Gastby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Although the beginning of the novel doesn't throw you right in like i said, it makes you want to know more. The narrator starts off by telling you just enough about Gastby to make you want to know more about the mysterious character. The beginning of these text differ from each other greatly which i think is fair considering one is a novel and the other a short story. When reading a novel you know you have time to get to know the characters, while in a short story you have less time. What these two texts do share is the their ability to make the reader want to know more about the situation and characters.