Reading Log Week 4

Friday 10/28/2011
When You Are Engulfed In Flames
David Sedaris
120-167
30 minutes
Saturday 10/29/2011
When You Are Engulfed In Flames
David Sedaris
 168- 230
30 minutes
Sunday 10/30/2011
When You Are Engulfed In Flames
David Sedaris
231-274
20 minutes
Tuesday 11/1/2011
Scars
Cheryl Reinfield
1-278
1 hour

In the story Scars, Kendra's father imposes some very important rules in order to keep her in line. Though I do not have access to direct quotes right now, her father repeated one line ominously: "I will kill you if you tell anyone." Also, her father imposes the rule to cut herself when ever things got hard, when ever the memories would come back and haunt her, and when ever she needed to shut herself up. I believe that Kendra's father/molester made these rules to make sure he never got caught by creating these big rules at an early age.
In the story April in Paris, Mr. Sedaris is extremely in love with his spiders, and especially April the spider. Though Mr. Sedaris may have just loved spiders, I believe he was influenced by events around him to stimulate his interest. In the beginning, the story mentions "The eyes of the stranded grandmother, I noted, were not half as piercing. There she was clinging to a chimney with her bra strap showing, and all anyone did was wonder if she had a dog." In the end, "The TV was on, the grandmother signaled from her rooftop, and I found myself wondering, with something akin to panic, if there were any spiders in her house." Because his own point of view changed from beginning to end, though he may not realize it himself his innate human desire to fit in led him to change his own original interest to something greater to also have something to worry about when grandmothers signal from houses.