A&P and reading

While reading this story, I'm not sure I had any clue what was going on. The way it was written didn't get me to read it in depth enough to attempt and look into 'why'.  I thought some of it was highly unnecessary, or confusing, such as writing out every thing on a certain aisle, and the part where Sammy and Stokesie are supposed to be joking. I could picture the store, in part because I know what a grocery store is like, and in part that I knew that Sammy stayed in the same place and what it was he could and couldn't see from where he was, and the way he talked about the people in the store, as well as the store itself was good at showing his point of view and how that translates to the actual situation in the store. What I guess was the climax, when Sammy quit, I still don't understand what the logic is in it. There could be so many reasons for someone to quit, but for someone to quit their only job in the summer, while still living with their parents, and use the reason that the manager treat some girls wrong, which I also don't understand the problem, because if I was a manager of a store and people came in just wearing bathing suits, I would probably ask them to leave too. I hope that covers the prompt.

Reading:
the hate list: 3 and a half hours
short stories: 30 mins
my short story: 15 mins
4 hours and 14 mins

My short story:

Exposition:
The setting is in a hospital
situation/climate is that Victoria is witnessing herself dying, she thinks its cold, and the atmosphere is busy and distracted, though Victoria would do anything to be distracted from what is going on
Conflict:
Victoria vs. her death and what she will remember
Rising action:
- the doctors and nurses burst in and cause a scene and then wheel a hospital bed out of the room
- Victoria realizes whats happening and chases them
- Doctors talking before they enter the room
Climax:
-Victoria dies
Falling action:
- she doesn't remember who she is or where she is. She has no idea the girl in the hospital bed is her. She hears the doctors talk about calling the girl's parents, and becomes very sad that this girl was so obviously alone and there is no one to remember her story but the doctors.
Resolution:
- She is suddenly in a dark room where she feels as though she is in a therapy session, a stranger asks her about the scene she just saw. She expresses how sad she is that no one is there to really remember. The stranger thinks for a while then asks if she could be the one to remember, if it was something she would do. She expresses a future knowledge that it is a burden she should not have to bear, one that will one day crush her.

reading times: 9/22

The hate list:
1hour 45minutes
Short stories:
30 minutes
Beautiful chaos:
20 minutes

195 minutes total

The Hate List

Okay so this book is about a school shooting... I pray that nothing exactly like this has ever happened, two people just talking and thinking that they understand what the other is thinking, and that one of them thinks its that he should shoot a bunch of people because they don't like them. I mean you have to be kinda off to think that when someone says they hate someone, and says things they don't mean, to think they do mean them, and to decide to kill people because of it... But also if the gunman was always kinda obvious of his intentions, WHY wouldn't you say something to them or anyone?
So far in the book I feel like they plan on showing her in the present, then adding flash backs every time something relevant pops up, and I'm confused about what it is that the plot in the story will be after they finish explaining what we already know about.

what my short story character thinks about before she falls asleep

Well, in all actuality, my character doesn't get to sleep, so this is just what she would be thinking about if she did.

Did it really have to have taken so long for that one to finish? No, thats not right, I shouldn't think like that. All that matters is that I have his story written down. His legacy is more important then getting to sleep. Oh, but I need to, I feel like the father of that girl the other day, too busy with work to get home in time to save her.
I wonder what my parents were like. Were they there when I died? My first assignment, the one that I didn't get to get the story, the girl died and the hospital didn't call them until after. It bugs me that I never heard her story. I wonder if anyone did? Did she die and become lost? One of the ones no one remembers? Poor girl.
Wait. Is there even anyone else like me? Am I the only one that remembers stories? No, that can't be, too many people would be lost.
Lost. I wonder if theres a song called that... If its anything like it really is... being lost... like me... never going to... remember.

reading times: 9/16

literacy narrative:
1 and a half hours 9/11-9/12
Beautiful Chaos:
1 hour 9/11
150 mins total

Ebook

Well seeing that the literacy narratives are mostly revolved around a semi personal to very personal story, I'm not sure how I feel about publishing it. Normally I'm fine with people reading my writing, but normally I write fiction and stuff that isn't ever directly about me. I guess it has to do with my view of art, and I think writing is a type of art. Its a way of expression when talking doesn't work. Going from disguising my point and feelings in something, you have to talk about it in the assignment, and it feels slightly more personal then most other things.
Then about other people reading it, I just hope it makes sense, and no one reads my paper and decides to say something about it that I might hear, or ask a question I might not want to answer. Really, other than that I don't really have any other problems. Also, I feel like pictures can make or break something, and you can more easily break a paper with pictures.