Author: YidiQ

The short story, “A good man is hard to find”, is about a family of six going for a road trip. The grandma tells them about a place she has been to a long time before. The children beg to go and their father gives in. The grandma realizes that they are going the wrong way for the place she had been to was in a different state. But decided to not tell them. When she was thinking about this, her cat had escaped and and jumped on Mr.Bailey(the dad) and the car crashes.

They all get out of the car and see another car come over. They think that those people were there to help them, but the three people recently escaped from jail and were there to kill them. The murderers ended up killing the whole family.

This short story may seem very weird with no theme or anything, but if you look deep inside into it there is. I would say the theme of this story is to think before you do things. There are many times when the characters did things without thinking.

Some examples of of this is when Mr. Bailey told his mother ( the grandma) to not bring the cat, but she still did and crashed the car. Also when the grandma decided to not tell them they were going the wrong way. If she did they could have avoided dying. And lastly Mr.Bailey should have asked if the grandma was sure about this since she has not been there for a long time. If he would have asked this instead of giving, in the grandma might have remembered. Although this story is short many people overlook these pretty obvious theme.

The short story, The Rules of the Game is about a girl named Waverly that has a mom that judges her a lot and uses her to become more popular. One day she sees her brother playing chess and she wanted to learn how to play. After her brother teaches her how to play she starts to read books about the pieces and improves very fast. She got so good that people stoped playing her. After playing some people at the park, people started to watch her. Her mom starts to brag about her. Waverly gets angry and has a fight with her mom. I think the moral of the story is to stand up for yourself. I believe this because her mom is taking advantage of her and I think that she could stand up for herself.

The lottery is a story about a town that has a weird religion. Each year your name gets raffled up in a box and the name chosen’s family gets put into the box and one of them will end up getting stoned to death. The main character of the story is Tessie. Her husband got chose and it was up to luck to keep her alive. But unfortunately her name was chosen, but before they killed her she complained about how it wasn’t fair. I believe the theme of this story is to stand up to others before it is too late. In the story everyone doesn’t feel so bad doing it but once you are chosen, it will already be too late.

I think the theme of the story is to learn and plan out things before you do it. You can see how this backfired on Sam and Bill. They did not know the personality of Johnny and how the villagers do not like him. This is bad because they did not care that he was gone and were happy. They gets beaten up and annoyed by John. So they ended up paying $250 and giving him up.