11.30.2007

You think you have problems?

As the semester draws to a close (it's true; can you believe it?), let's review the topics of our various reading assignments:
  1. A young mother in southern U.S., circa late 18th-century, suffers from untreated post-partum depression. Her husband attempts to cure her by keeping her in a country house attic. She goes crazy.
  2. A woman feels relief upon hearing of the death of her husband. When she learns that it's not actually true, and that her empty marriage will continue, she drops dead of a heart attack.
  3. A desperately poor family in Brazil, unable to break the endless cycle of poverty and class strife, can do nothing but laugh as they're forced into prostitution.
  4. A young man discovers who he is, learning that not only is he adopted, his beautiful older wife is also his mother.
  5. Ditto, kind of.
  6. A town's annual ritual results in one of its citizens being stoned to death.
  7. A mother tries to tell her daughter that her slutty ways are going to land her in the same wretched life the mother has endured.
One of these is nonfiction. Which one? Oh, and have a happy weekend. Your life doesn't suck!

2 comments:

deb said...

OK, I'm going with #3, because everyone knows that poverty and enforced prostitution in developing nations is nuthin' but HILARIOUS !!

Now I'm thinking I went to nursing school and then psychology school because there's so much less human suffering there than in literature.

Anonymous said...

I'm gonig with the last one because I've read that short essay before in one of my own classes.