Thoughts about George Saunders
I think George Saunders' short stories are very reflective of our society now. For example, in 'Puppy', it felt like seeing our moms. And in 'The Semplica Girl Diaries', the narrator's behavior was like envying the rich and being a car poor. Like this, his short stories are very related to our society. I think this is because his short stories, which we read, were all written in the 21th centuries and these writing moments were hard to read at World Lit 1. Also his writing style was diffrent from each short story. In 'Victory Lap', the point of view changed a lot by skipping each characters' brain. This part made the readers, especially me, difficult to understand the story. However in 'The Semplica Girl Diaries', the concept of the diary was easy to understand. Also in this short story, the sentence length was mixed up. Sometimes it was really long and the other was short like two words. This part made the story's development more rapid...