JGB's ENGL 453
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 18th, 2017
This story is about dreams and imagination, two figments of our brain crucial to us as children. Perhaps, this is why Saunders chooses a child as our main protagonist. At the same time, Saunders also shows us that imagination can still be rich in adults as well, hence why he includes a 53-year-old man named […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 21st, 2017
The setting of the story offers a feeling of isolation for the overall plot and the characters within. The lack of descriptions of the narrator’s physical surroundings also reinforces the idea of that isolation. The story’s prose is casual, like listening to someone recount their background rather than listening to a formal reading of their biography. […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 24th, 2017
Many short short stories — so-called “flash fiction” or “sudden fiction” stories — seem to operate in the manner of poetry, powered by their associative qualities. A particular image or series of images deepens in meaning, growing increasingly nuanced and complex. That’s what George Saunders does with the crossed metal pole in the story “Sticks,” barely more […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 22nd, 2017
The story of George Saunders’s Victory Lap is written in a style that makes reading feel more like watching through a slideshow of the events. It has relatively fast paced scenes from beginning to end. There are a lot of changes in point of view, making it almost feel like there is more than one story. Indeed, it […]