Short Stories Reflection

The first story I read was called "It's Just The Sun Rising." I like the author's writing style, mainly because I found it pretty similar to my own. The story talks about how his family and that he draws a portrait of his father every year. There might be some symbolism going on, however, I don't see any but that may be that I didn't find it myself. He tells the story in a well constructed manner, though. Although I didn't actually "learn" anything from him, but I could pretty much have a good sense of how his family, life, and feelings. Although he did not show much dialog or with his family, his description on how they are really allows you to know them.

The other one is called "The Alien Encounter" written by an eleven year-old. I knew he was eleven year-old because the description says so. However, you could still guess that he is not young, according to the story. I don't know how I can explain this. If you go and read it, you can tell the story line is naive. I don't mean whether it is good or bad. It's just naive. The tone of the story doesn't sound naive, though. His voice actually sounds a lot more mature than what most people would expect to hear from an eleven year-old. I like "It's Just The Sun Rising"s voice better, though, because it sounds more like someone is telling the story, unlike "The Alien Encounter" which sounds too much like a story and personally, I think it loses the "feeling" of the story. It's like what the OWL site mentions, "do more telling than showing." He spends more time on describing things rather than showing them to the readers and let them have their own opinions.