First Sightings: Contemporary Stories of American Youth

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Summary: CONTEMPORARY STORIES OF AMERICAN YOUTH
Review: CONTEMPORARY STORIES OF AMERICAN YOUTH

Young Americans "FIRST SIGHTINS" (289 pages. Edited by John Loughery $ 11.95.) Is a drama book that presents twenty stories, with protagonists aged three to eighteen ears old, by such authors as John Updike, Alice Walker, Genero Gonzales and Carson McCullers. If you reed the whole book you can obviously see that the stories take you step by step through a certain period. In addition, I think that they have experienced these stories through a dream or real life. Here is a sample of the "Stoned boy". "His rifle caught on the wire and he jerked at it. The air was rocked by the sound of the shot. Feeling foolish, he lifted his face, baring it to an expected shower of derision from his brother. But Eugie did not turn around. Instead, from hi crouching position, he fell to his knees and then pitched forward onto his face. The ducks rose up crying from the lake, cleared the mountain background and beat away northward across the pale sky." So we have these two brothers (9 and 15) going hunting with out a permission during the night. In addition, the younger boy shoots him self as you can see here above. The older brother gets so much shock that he just runs home and goes to sleep. The morning after Arnold goes down to eat breakfast and his parents ask him where Eguie is, and...... The good thing about reading short stories book is that you never get bored. Moreover, does this one certainly fall under that category. When you read it you kinda start remembering some moments in your own childhood and think about them. That gives you a whole new look at your embarrassing moments of life and you find out that you actually learned something from it. So yes I recommend this book to those who like drama and stories that make you think about life.