7) Writing About Our Course Stories [Categories: Life Choice, Course Reading, Re-Genre]: Please complete the following:
Blog Post Introduction:
I will be using the genre of "intertextual fiction" to combine three of our course stories that we have read earlier in the semester. The stories I have decided to use are Bullet in the Brain, The Lottery and A Good Man is Hard to Find. Re-Genre Analysis: Anders couldn’t get to the bank until before it closed, so of course the line was endless and he got stuck behind two women whose loud, stupid conversation put him in a murderous temper. He was never in the best of tempers anyway, Anders-a book critic known for the weary, elegant savagery with which he dispatched almost everything he reviewed. One of the women was holding a spot in line for one of her neighbors. The woman was a grandmother, Bailey was the son she lived with, her only boy. She was wearing white cotton gloves and had on a navy blue straw sailor hat with a bunch of white violets on the brim and a navy blue dress with a small white dot in the print. Her collars and cuffs were white organdy trimmed with lace and at her neckline she had pinned a purple spray of cloth violets containing a sachet. She turned around and said “You made it after all. Thought we were going to have to get on without you, Tessie.” A younger woman appeared from around the corner, Tessie Hutchinson, and joined the older woman in line. “Wouldn’t have me leave my dishes in the sink, now, would you?”. The two women began talking about the latest neighborhood gossip which only angered Anders more. With the line still doubled around the rope, one of the tellers stuck a “POSITION CLOSED” sign in her window. Everyone in the line became very frustrated especially Tessie because she knew she had so much cleaning to do back at the house. “It isn’t fair, it isn’t right,” Mrs. Hutchinson screamed. “That’s perfectly all right,” the older woman said trying to calm Tessie down. “We will get to the front of the line at some point today” she said with a frustrated attitude. “Damned unfair,” Anders said from behind them in line, “Tragic, really.” he stated sarcastically. “I didn’t say it was tragic,” Tessie said, “You know what, just say out of it, it’s none of your business anyways!” “A good man is hard to find now a days, I swear!” the older woman said while glaring at the man behind them making these comments. He began laughing and couldn’t believe these women were getting so upset over nothing. “You think I’m comical? You think I’m some kind of clown?” the older woman said. He covered his mouth with both hands and said, “I’m sorry, I’m sorry,” then snorted helplessly through his fingers. “Okay listen, everyone, are you all really going to let this man talk like this to us two women?” Mrs. Hutchinson was saying to the people around her. But, no one even paid attention to her they all just wanted to stay out it. The older woman, who was a very religious woman, just wanted to tell him that he must pray. Jesus would help him, she thought to herself while Tessie and the man continued to argue. She finally built up the courage to say something and all she could get out was “I think we ought to start over” and the room went silent.
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