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I am an instructor, author, voice actor, motivational speaker, and international businessperson who places betterment ahead of every other initiative. While the majority of my life is spent contemplating about lexicons, it is my firm belief that actions speak louder than words. My mission in life is simple: to make a difference by being different.

Wednesday, March 31, 2010

A Short Story: The Card by James Ross


Childhood has always been conceived as the most crucial era of our lives, the period where our personalities are shaped and our minds molded.

Reading a short story about the short experience of childhood is similar to acknowledging the changes that we have gone through with the nostalgic sense of remembrance that evokes different emotions for different individuals.

Read this very short yet immersible story (5 pages long) here.

3 comments:

matin said...

Its calm thoughts that cause storm thoughts that walk on pigeons legs are those which manage the word (NIETSCHE)
This story against its appearance was difficult to understand had to review it times after times in the hope of understanding a little of it.
Eventually I took a look at the comments of other readers and I saw their silence as lack of opportunity rather than lack of understanding capabilities and real content of this story.
1-we'd better take a look at the introduction again and it would be much better if instead of childhood and its nostalgia the words were about the realities of the childhood world and deep understanding of the person who –without stepping into the adults world –was accused of understanding the bitter accidents of the adults and observing the rules of todays world.
i believe that this story is as old as we all whether at the beginning our ten year olds birthday party or at the end of the last ceremony of our life.
I mention an introduction from one of the weblogs here so that you understand more the difference of content of these two introductions: "
One or two people are talking about turning it into a movie.

Though it works fine as a short story, The Card is actually the opening chapter of a novel called Dealer No.1 which describes how the narrator, Mickey Hall, an unhappy but fairly ordinary fifteen year-old, is forced by circumstance to become a drug-dealer.

Mickey becomes a dealer in order to protect his dysfunctional family, but in doing so he comes across the father he's never met. And his father is a real criminal, unlike Mickey who's basically an inspired and fairly desperate amateur…"
Maybe it would be better if we started this story with a short biography of JAMES ROSS and his other works like watch , in country, magic smile, just this and so on..and the reason for choosing this story & in following great DAVID HUME who said why do I exist instead of not being existed "I generalize this question and ask you:" why do you choose this story instead of not choosing it?!"
2-very deep concepts in the frame of short words and sentences is a very deep point in this story for example:
Love=pain
Affection=distress
Being nice=being invisible
Because she is honest she sees more than most , so she knows more than most….
Including these concepts in the frame of short stories always faces the danger of passing them quickly and without attention.
3-very deep visualization and identification of the writer with the elements of nature and even his attention to pictures and drawing them as they are is respect to the mind and understanding of us(readers)and is a turning point for touching more the realities of this story for example where he says:
And on front of the card was a picture ,a cartoon ,of a little boy wearing a hardhat and driving a tractor..
Draws us the picture of a boy who is self-reliant or perhaps draws the ideal picture of a child in front of the eyes of a father who is not there any more.
4-there are different inductions and many questions that I want to bring them to a common point of course with contribution of the readers .for example :who is father of this family and why he went problematic choices of mother and reason of weakness and disability which is ruling this family and war of good and evil and gathering all these excellent qualities in sister and fathers letter to his son :here in another way "that has become the routine of today's story literature they all caused me to ask all my friends and you right here to increase your contribution to understanding this story because reading and silence against literary works equals nor reading and lack of understanding hidden efforts in these works.
With thanks and respect.

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