Week of 06/14/2012

I really enjoyed The Falling Girl from Fiction Packet 3. I think the woman falling from the skyscraper building was symbolic for growing up too fast. There are a few reasons why I thought this. For one, I thought it was strange the conversations she was having as she was "falling." One person she caught an attitude with because he questioned why she was falling saying, "you've got your whole life ahead of you." She also talks to people who are trying to invite her to a party but she says she can't because she's in a hurry. Also, in the story, she refers to a woman who is a couple meters above her, falling off the skyscraper but she'd be the one to make it to the party. The language of the story is very descriptive, almost poetic and very pretty. There's a lot of talk about the sun illuminating her beautiful dress and the dark windows of this skyscraper building that can give you a visual picture of a beautiful building in the city, very lavish as well. There were a couple things I thought were confusing or rather I wasn't sure what to make of. The conversation between the couple that enjoyed living at the bottom of the skyscraper. They liked it because they could see the women hit the ground, and also made a reference for the prices being so high because people were jumping off. That was strange I wasn't sure what the symbolism could be for that. There's another part where Marta, the main character who was falling notices other girls jumping and they're saying it's a contest. I thought that was confusing because on one hand I thought maybe she's saying life is a contest between those beautiful girls, which was how she described them. But was she apart of that contest as well? The text talked about her being beautiful, but why did she pass those people trying to invite her to a party if she was too in a contest with the beautiful ones, living a lavish life.