Fiction Packet 2 Response

Fiction Packet 2 was fairly interesting.  I focused on two stories,  "Contagion" and "People in Hell Just Want a Drink of Water".
     
     Taking a look at Contagion, the piece was broken up into different sections.  This allowed for an easier reader and gave time to understand each section thoroughly.  Overall the story was really good, but at times confusing.  Near the end of the last passage the author makes it clear in the "Flash of and Eye" passage that the subject observing his brother could very well be the one being observed.  Then, it just gets crazy.  In the last passages "An Exchange" and "Pen Casing" really takes the story in shocking way.  He knows now by either the mind games his head is playing on him or actual vivid details the author gives, the subject that was originally the investigator is going insane.  He's being drained from being so watchful, that he becomes watched.  At the end, he brings back to light a detail that was given earlier.  The blank page.  He will soon only have blank pages and become dry because he cannot observe and fulfill the task that he was given.

    "People in Hell Just Want a Drink of Water" was a very gruesome and intriguing tale at times.  One part of the passage that stood out to me was on page 104. The part was talking about how the mother "hurled the crying infant into the water" and at the river's edge it was "Gone and gone". At that point in the novel, it was a little scary.  The mother was clearly labeled as insane by the author and now the reader.  Yet, how awful she was she still is the mother to her children.  When their son Ras comes back from his escape from this horrible place he is badly injured from a car wreck.  So Ras' father and mother take him back in and care for him.  After reading vivid stories of that century the author concludes the passage about how "That was all sixty years ago and more.".  That "those hard days are finished." and how "if you believe that you'll believe anything."

    Both of these passage were extraordinary.  The vivid images created from only a couple of sentences leaves the reader with much more than is present.  Both authors take a simple storyline or subject and add so much detail that the story becomes packed with layers of information that pours out in each sentence.