The Californians Tale
The narrator is walking around town and goes into a cabin and the man that lives there wants the narrator stay to see his wife. But his wife died 19 yrs ago.

The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras Country
In the winter of 49 a man shows that likes to makes bets. He also has pets that he makes bets on.

The Danger of Lying in Bed
The narrator wants an insurance but not for a train just for lying in a bed.



My opions of the stories
I liked the Californians Tale. I liked it better than the other two that I read.
I hated the Danger of Lying in Bed. Just because it was boring.
I didnt mind The Celebrated JUmping Frog of Calaveras Country. It had more of a  point than The Danger of Lying in Bed

    Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain) was born in Florida, Missouri, of a Virginian family. They soon  moved to Hannibal, Missouri, Where Twain was brought up.After his father death in 1847, Twain was apprenticed to a printer. He started his career as a journalists by writing for the Hannibal  Journal. He later worked as a licensed Mississippi river-boat pilot (1857-61). His famous penname Twain adopted from the call ('Mark twain!'-meaning by the mark of two fathoms) used when sounding river shallows. In 1861 Twain served briefly as a confederate irregular. The Civil War put an end to the steamboat traffic, and during this time Twain was out of work, he lived in a primitive cabin on Jackass Hill and tried his luck as a goldminer.
    Twian moved to Virginia City, where he edited two years Territorial Enterprise. On February 3, 1863, 'Mark Twain' was born when he signed a humorus account with that pseudonym. In 1864 Twain left for California, where he worked in San Francisco as a reporter. After hearing a story about a frog, Twian made an entry in his notebook:"Coleman with his jumping frog - bet a stranger $50. - Stranger had no frog and C. got him one: In the meantime stranger filled C's frog full of shot and he couldn't jump. The strangers frog won." From these lines he developed 'Jim Smiley and his Jumping Frog' which was published in The Saturday Press of New York on the 18th of November in 1865. It was reprinted all over the country and became the foundation stone of The Jumping Frog Of Calaveras County, And Other Sketches (1867). This work marked the beginning of Twain's literary career. Twian died on April 21st 1910.
                                        MAJOR WORKS
1876- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
1883- Life On The Mississippi
1884- HuckleBerry Finn

             

I can see why in his stories he seems to be racial because he grew up in Mississippi. Back in that time a white person could not be seen with a black person or himself would be killed. They also couldn't be in the same places at all in some places. He also refers when the sun goes down death is sure to follow. With that it seems to me that was very rascist. It was also not called for because he was like saying that when the sky is black that is when alot of blacks die never whites. Also in his stories he is mean to the blacks in the stories
that he uses black people. He also has the black person think that Jesus was coming back to kill her, I think if that character was white that he would not have that character thinking that.

    Emily has no mailbox or no house number and she also has taxes that she needs to pay but won't pay them. Her taxes are always mailed back to the places that sent them to her.  She had a suitter that told her stuff but she never listened to him then she piosioned him. She finally died and everyone went into her house and found the dead man on her bed.

"The Three Day Blow" Nick and Bill are sitting around drinking and talking. They both talk about stupid things like baseball, writers, and other stuff. Then they both waanted to get drunk and go swimming, then go hunting.

"The Big Two-Hearted River" Nick is trying to find a spot to set up his tent. When his arms being to hurt and his back was hurting he found a spot. The next day he went trout fishing and lost the biggest trout ever (that he saw or ever heard about.)

1.      What else do you think Hemmingway may be saying through the setting in this story? I think that he might be saying that you can’t let anything go that you like to do or to be with.

2.  Why does he use the contrasting setting of the burned out area with the lush, green setting? He uses that because Nick probably feels that he can’t stand being there in the field with out Marjorie just because they went fishing with each other all the time.

 3.  What does Nick's traveling through the burned out area to the lush green area symbolize? It      symbolizes that he can do anything that he has done with the person he loved then go back and do it with out the person he loves.

4.  What does the swamp area symbolize?  I don’t know.

5.  When does Nick, if ever, plan to go to the swamp? He never goes to the swamp.

            “A Haunted House” the ghostly couple loves each other. The reason I said that is that if they didn’t love each other would they be looking for their buried treasure together. When the ghostly women died her husband had to leave because he couldn’t stand being in the house by himself. When he returned to house the pulse of the house beats gradually. Where one ghost went into a room they both looked in the same room at the same time, they never looked into a room by themselves. When they went into the bedroom where they slept them saw the new couple there sleeping and they said,” Sound asleep. Love upon their lips.”

            “The Lady or the Tiger” the commoner had the truer love. The reason that I said that is that the commoner picked the door that the princess suggested without hesitation. He new that he couldn’t let anyone else find that he loved the princess because he new the consequences if the king found out.  He also pretty much asked the princess which door to pick just because he looked up at the princess and she lifted up an arm or pointed at a door that she wanted him to pick. But, it took her a while to pick which she wanted him to open. Just because she had to pick for him death or love with another women for the rest of his life. So without hesitation the commoner picked the door that the princess had picked for him because he new that she new what was behind either door.

            “The Chrysanthemums” Henry Allen was happier than Elisa Allen in their marriage. The reason that I said that is that when Henry came home one day he said to Elisa,” you look nice.” Elisa said,” Nice, Nice” in a real snobby way. He also wanted to go to a fight and asked Elisa if she would with him. She said yes but then saw the chrysanthemums on the ground that she gave to the tinker earlier that morning. So from that moment on she wasn’t happy anymore.

“The Chaser” Allan had the false idea of true love. True love doesn’t have jealously in it. True love is when both people can trust each other with out asking each other where the other person was at for the whole time they were gone. In this story Allan thought that true love was all about Diana doing every thing and being jealous of everyone that Allan talks to or does stuff with. He also thought that Diana needed to know every thing that Allan was thinking of every second of the day. So he thought that he needed a love potion to have true love.

“The Lottery” Bills and Tessies love was old fashioned. That the male was head of the house and the women stayed home all day and kept the house clean. The male also tried to tell the women to do and the males brought home all the money. The women just stayed out of the way of the man and that the women couldn’t do anything like: vote, bide, or anything like that. The male just did everything that he could do to keep the house in running order.

The male and female relationships are all different in everybody’s relationships. Some people want true love and old fashion love. Also everybody else just wants to love each other different than those ways. They also want to discipline each other like hitting each other or just to love each other and trust each other.

 

 

 

In the story “The Chrysanthemums” it was about a guy who wanted to get a vase. But his wife wouldn’t let him because there was sand and some type of plant in it. But at the end of the story he got the vase because he dumped the vase out so that he can get the vase.

I thought that the story was stupid because there was no point to it. Also it aint a type of story that I like to read like for instance (I like action, Science Fiction). It was also plain like there was no plot to the story

“The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson and “The Lady or the Tiger” by Frank Stockton both deals with fairness in similar ways.

“The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson deals with fairness in a way that a lot of people wouldn’t even try to do. Like for instance the people have to draw a piece of paper out of a box and if it has a black dot on it that means that you will die. Mrs. Hutchinson thought that it was unfair because she said, “that Mr. Summers didn’t give her husband enough time to draw.” She also thought that they should just do the whole lottery all over again. She also thought that her oldest daughter should draw with her family, not her husband’s family.

“The Lady or the Tiger” by Frank Stockton. Deals with fairness in a way that I wouldn’t even consider a good way. Just because the princess loves a man and that man loves the princess to. So the king has the man go to trial and pick a door that he wants. I didn’t think it was really fair. To have a man to go to trial just because he loves the princess and the princess loves him back. If a lady came out from one of the doors you are to marry her if you don’t even like her that also isn’t fair. If a tiger came out from behind the door. That is your death penalty. I also don’t think that is fair because I think that you should decide your faith not anyone else.

In conclusion both of the stories are kind of similar. Just because they both don’t seem right at all. By how people in charge are deciding peoples fate instead of the people deciding it themselves.