short stories 2

This week’s readings were more short stories from an array of authors. In a way I was receiving a sense of time from the readings. The idea that time elapses through our lives and we simply let it take its course because we can’t control it. Sometimes we try to leave something behind whether intentionally or unintentionally or merely let life move on. This theme is present in, for example, the tale “The Handsomest Drowned Main in the World” where in the village in which the dead man washes up, the villagers find more than just a corpse but a man who they have never seen anyone quite like him. At the end of the story, the villagers change the appearance of their village all for the man who died and who had such an impact on them. In doing so they hope the thought of him lives on within their village. Also, in the story “The Garden of Forking Paths” it is mentioned that death is inevitable and like in the other readings no one escapes death or the progression of time.