The Garbage Man - Sharon Curtin

In the short story "The Garbage Man" by Sharon Curtin it tells about a girl which finds a new passion. The children used to swim in the pool but they closed it. So now they swim in the river instead.  Unfortunately they did it against their mother's will. The swimsuit got taken away and she got put on restriction.
By starring at the cottonwoods trees she started to be more and more interested in watching the Garbage Man. He was an old man, who collected the scraps from the people’s garbage to give it to his chickens. Then he sold the eggs back to the people for money.
She started to follow him and played her own game with him, because she expected an interesting person behind this figure. The Garbage Man had the reputation in the city that he is just disgusting, smells bad and ugly. It is said in the story that he is a “mother’s nightmare of a dirty old man, dressed in tattered stained clothing” and he wears “an old stocking cap”.
In her imagination deep in his inside he is a normal, smart, old man who is actually wealthy but wants to hide it from the folk. Nobody would ever have the idea to come too close to his house because they think there is nothing to get. She wanted to discover this.
With her sister together they made a plan to finally see his face and get a closer relationship to him. The plan did not work the way she expected it. She was disappointed because he was just an old man with the marks of being in older ages.
It is a nice story about building first your own opinion and then you can judge. Sometimes we just get disappointed by wrong expectations.

THE CHASE BY: ANNE DILLARD

In the short story  "The Chase" by Annie Dillard, its telling about the author as a child  who seems to be getting along more with boys than girls, and participates in boys sports like football and baseball. In the winter time they can't play many of the sports because of the snow so they practice by throwing snow and iceballs at the passing cars for fun. As they continue to throw the snowballs, they throw one at the wrong car. All of the sudden the angry driver gets out of the car and chases them all through the neighborhood untill they were exhausted.Though they ran around the neighborhood for such a long time, they ended up getting caught by the man, but he did not make a big deal of it. The girl was happy though because she loved doing the unlawful things with the boys that gives her the adrinaline rush and the acception from the boys that she loves.

After reading this short story it reminds me of my childhood when i played soccer which was then considered more of a boys sport. I would much rather be outside playing soccer with the boys on the street beacuse

"nothing girls did could compare with it." I never liked the drama that girls always caused, so I just hung out with the boys because they would rather pass up the drama and get the adrinaline going with all the fun strategic sports.

What is literacy?

Literacy is...
-when one uses his or her's ability to read, write, and analyze to gain knowlegde. To sum it up, we feel that literacy is anything that you can read or write. Some people may read a newspaper or a magazine, a textbook or scholarly supported book. There are different types of literacy: the classic types  like a drama, an epic poetry or the lyric. There can be also a different division like easy reading book or scholarly written books
- a bridge from mistery to hope.
- priceless.
- timeless.