MAMA

After reading chapters 5-8 in the book Mama I am left wanted to keep reading to find out more.  What stuck out to me the most in these couple chapters was limit that Mildred was willing to go in order to keep feeding her children and surviving.  She went through a couple different men who had money in order to live decently for awhile.  In my opinion I feel as if Mildred purposely knew she would just stay with these men for awhile until she found someone better with more money.  In the end she end up with a teenager who according to Freda was almost young enough to be her boyfriend.  This story is filled with many surprises and hardships that progress as the story go on. I am looking forward to reading what happens in the next couple chapters.

Class

Class by Sherman Alexie is about a native indian who meets a white woman and ends up marrying her.  Throughout the story they describe how their marriage turned out after two years.  During that time his wife was cheating on him and he knew the entire time.  Instead of shaming her and cheating on her with a friend, he got into prostitutes. This eventually became an addiction and he had to stop. One day he went to an Indian bar where he got into a fight. Because of this fight he realized how ungrateful he was of the life he has.  

This story was actually very entertaining.  It described real situations and real world problems with much detail.  It showed how into their problems a person can get, which makes them lose sight of hard the rest of the world has it.  The main character was into his struggles so much that he began to be ungrateful of everything he had.  In my opinion that is something that happens to everyone whether they notice or not.