The Killers

While I was reading the short story The Killers, I was very confused. I didn't quite follow the dialogue very well at all. As I was reading I felt like it would jump from one character saying something to another then to another without letting the reader know. Maybe I wasn't paying close enough attention while I was reading and maybe I just need to read it again to understand better. I think another thing that threw me off a bit with this story was the beginning. In the beginning, there wasn't much of an introduction setting the scene before they started jumping into the dialogue. At least for me, I think this story would have been a much better and a bit of an easier read had the author set the scene and explained the characters in the beginning better. Another thing that bothered me about this story was the nicknames and the way that the people in the story were addressed. As if I wasn't already confused enough, the author really threw me for a loop when he started calling Adams and George, "bright boy" and Sam, "the nigger". I just didn't see the point in it and thats what confused me. When I got to the middle of the story when they started talking about killing Ole' Anderson, the story got a little more interesting. I was able to follow it better after that. Through the end when Nick went and told Anderson that those men were going to kill him I was again a bit thrown off. I also don't understand how Anderson being a boxer or him not wanting to get out of his room tied into the story at all. I thought that the video on the blog of the people who remade this story was really kind of weird. I didn't think that it really followed the authors intended story line well. Overall I think the story was okay. I am used to reading autobiography books and self story books about things that really happened. I think that is a lot of the reason that I didn't follow this story like I would have liked. Maybe with more experience reading these types of stories, which I will be getting in this class, I can start to follow, understand and appreciate these stories more.