Reading Response 1 Week 9

This weeks reading response is to Florida Lives by Dionne Irving. Upon Reading this short story i understood the concepts of the class based discussion we had back on Thursday. The way that Irving presented her characters in her story is an interesting mix from the usual stories I've read. At first I empathized with the character's but noticed how Irving went about setting her scene and that made me take more notice about the area of Florida that the character's reside in more than the character development. Yet, with regards to the characters, I also took note of how she made such complex characters in such a short amount of pages. Maybe as far as poetry is concerned, how she set up characters might or might not help establish a poem effectively unless a person is the focus of the poem. A future draft however, I could see utilizing this information to establish a character that is complex on many levels, but would allow the reader to analyze text further in order to understand a story more.