"The Cast of Amontillado" by Edgar Allan Poe

Poe is an Amazing writer and with the this story, it felt that the everything came to life. Even if all his stories have a great deal on making it extra scary and realistic, Poe is just awesome. In the story, "The Cast of Amontillado" it was about a guy, Montresor, who hated this other guy, Fortunato, and was planning to kill him. So Montresor took him to a basement at a party to look for some good strong drinks and there Montresor got Fortunato drunk and stuck him behind a wall which would be his grave. This was really intense and one of the best stories I loved. This also shows that there are crazy people u think are nice and friendly but have something dark hidin that they might want to let out and come after the person.

"Hills Like White Elephants" by Ernest Hemingway

Confusing....This story gave me a headache. I didn't know what they were talking about and why they were arguing. It was about a couple that were on their way to go to Barcelona, Spain for something. First they would talk about the hills and the view of the horizon, then about their problem didn't know what it was, then about the drinks they were having. I was so lost until I found out their problem was having and abortion. When i found that out my head got fill with air. This story was like a puzzle. The guy in the story was a jerk because if he says he loves her than why would he push her to loose the unborn baby. What kind of love is that? And the girl is so slow and weak she noticed her was a jerk so late and she couldn't even tell him how she really felt. That got me more upset. This short story was annoying and so is Ernest Hemingway. He make people have headache on purpose. He really had problems. But the funny thing is that I write stories sore of like him (childish and to the point).

"A Worn Path" by Eudora Welty

Phoenix Jackson was the protagonist in the story "A Worn Path". She was very hard working African American woman that wanted to get a medicine for her grandson who was sick. So she went off to get this medicine like in the other side of there world. So she met people on the way that were some what help yet very rude to her. They would call her "grandma", treat her as if she wasn't capable to do anything and trying to scare her off. but she was strong and kept going and got what she wanted. I didn't like this story at all. I don't care if it won the Pulitzer Prize of Literature to me it was really boring. people go through what Phoenix went though. and this story just shows how to stand up for yourself but it needed more action like someone stole something and blamed Phoenix and she got out of it or something fun and chilling. It wasn't great.

"The Man in the Black Suit" by Stephen King

Gary, the protagonist, was telling the story about his childhood. I personally loved this story because it's like one of those children stories people told that scared the living monkeys out you. Well Gary went to go fish one day and his parents told him not to go passed the bridge but he did because he was a typical curious little boy and found a man on a tree. The man on the tree was the devil who kind of saved him from a bee who Gary believed was the same bee that killed his older brother. The story had so many turns and sharp curves that made it interesting also from when the Man (devil) told him that his mom died and that he was going to eat Gary. When i have kids in the future i would so read this story in a heart beat. This should have been read to me because i was a nosey, curious person and still am maybe i wouldn't have gotten in a lot trouble. And the part of having the devil as your enemy is scary especially when your a kid being traumatized that the devil will get you if you do bad things can scared people to death... This would fall in number 15 of my top 20 favorite stories... I love Stephen King's stories... I'm a big horror story/ movie freak.

"Young Goodman Brown" by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Young Goodman brown was a man that always did the right thing, listened to what everyone told me, and was a faithful husband. Until one day he decide to go against himself and went to the woods to see if he could find some excitement or danger. I mean really, who goes to the woods for fun. So there he found a man "the devil" meaning the bad side of himself in the woods. Goodman Brown not listening to his wife or his conscience stayed with his new pal and went roaming around. There they went to a church like place where everyone he knew was there and doing bad things...in a church? That's funny. This targeted his train of thought and when he came back home was everyone the way he saw them that night. It wasn't the devil's fault. He got himself feeling like he couldn't trust no one anymore. But this shows that people who don't listen to themselves or others that care about him will suffer in the long run. They will meet their "devil".

"The Necklace" by Guy de Maupaissant

Hardship, pain, and suffering. This story is one of those stories that kill people with hatred deep in the gut and mind. I hated the fact that this woman, Mme. Loisel, went through a lot of trouble with a cheap necklace which she lost think it was extremely expensive and waisted her whole life trying to get a necklace for the friend she borrowed the necklace from with out her noticing she got her a new one. I wanted to kill her! She didn't even ask her from the beginning how much was it when she was trying and previewing the necklace she wanted for the ball. And her husband. He is so retarded. He goes out looking for that necklace after it was Mme. Loisel's fault for not paying attention and flirting with other men. That's what she gets. And at the end after 10 years of paying back for the necklace she finds her friend, who lended her the necklace, looking pretty as always while Mme. Loisel looked like an old hag, there she asked her how much the necklace cost (Its Kind of LATE!). At that moment i just wanted to rip her up. The ironic part was that the really necklace she lost was only five hundred francs and the new one she bought to replace it was thirty- six thousand francs. This story really got me mad. But it was a good story because i felt the emotions it gave out. It was like a movie.