I didn't find anything very deep in either of these stories. When reading "The Colonel" a few parts stuck out to me more than others. The first is in like first couple of lines, the family seems so normal. The daughter doing her nails and his son out for the night. But then it hits you, "broken bottles were embedded in the walls...".What? Why are there broken bottles embedded in the walls? Where is the narrator? The story just took a turn. The family seems incredibly rich, which makes me think that the father is an important person, obviously the colonel. This is when he brings out a bag of human ears. Human ears, really? I am not getting this story, to me it is just a story. Why does this man have ears? Why is he throwing them around? He put an ear in his drink? All I have to say to that question is gross, why would you even want to play with an ear?
It makes me wonder are these ears like trophies to this man. All the people he has killed or are they just people he has tortured? I have many questions from this story but not very many answers.
When reading "A Story About the Body" I was a bit angered. It kind of shows me that the love this man had for this woman wasn't love but a form of lust and obsession. If he couldn't love her because of her condition who could he love and could his love be true towards anyone. The one thing that truly confuses me about this story is the last few lines. "the rest of the bowl ... was full of bees." Why bees and were the roses from the man? Was is to show that beauty wasn't just on the outside of things but to look deeper into a person before deciding who they are?
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