BOX 9

I thought that the text was written by someone in the south, or at about people in the south.   It seemed that the story took place in an earlier time.  I thought that story was very odd.   I didn't understand it at all in the beginning.   This book reminds me of the movie "Secret Window."  At first you aren't sure what to think of it. And not until the very end to they reveal that there are two different stories being told.  Also the last paragraph can make a person's head spin.  There a questions with questions.  I am very use to reading that are in chronological order.  They have an outline to it and characters are introduced.  In this story they just start to talk about the characters without telling us background or anything.  Its as if the story is somehow backwards.   I didn't understand what the "18 & 23" were until I read it again.  Also it wasn't until after I read the second paragraph that I understood that it was telling many different stories about one event.  The grammar in the story was not proper at all, but I think it helped make the story more realistic, because people would have talked that way when telling a story to a friend.  Just the basic information that the story provided helped me read it the first time.  I had no clue what it was about, so it was definitely necessary for me to read it a second time.  Whenever I was reading the story the first time, I got really confused when it jumped from talking about the Mama Day character to the 18 & 23.  The narrator was the person that interested me the most.  Just the way that they perceived all of the stories. Also in a strange way the narrator seemed a little tormented at the end.   It was ramblings of a mad person, but I still enjoyed it.  The fact that it was in the south and in earlier times helped so much.  Whenever I think of the south I think of tradition and story telling.  This fit perfectly in with my thinking.  I couldn't see high class northern people in a story such as this.  Overall it was a good story to read!!