Nina Godridge's Response to October 14, readings

Hello, Nina Godridge here. It's another weekly update of " What I Read for Short Story Class" Yeah!!
I wanted to start off with Susan Steinberg's " Cowboys" for out of the three this is the one I enjoyed the most. I think the difference between this story and the others is how the narrator was speaking to me. It felt very personal, as if we were sitting at a bar sipping beers and she's telling me the story about herself and the relationship she had with her father. Especially trying to understand why everyone is saying she killed her father. In the beginning I thought she had literally killed her father with her own two hands, but then reading the story through you learn it's not the case. She was just the one who said to cut the cord or not. Steinberg's style of story telling can be found in the one lined descriptions, that can be found at the beginning and end of the story (can also be found on other pages) but it indicates her train of thought as she tells the story to me.
" Aurora" by Junot Díaz was a very riveting story. Mostly incased by this girl, the narrator talks about the ups and downs of being with this girl named Aurora. Aurora is a trouble maker, and the narrator's friend, Cut, tells him in the beginning to stay away from her. He doesn't listen and goes about loving Aurora as much as he can. Even though it's a short story when the setting changes or the topic changes, Díaz indicates it with a bolded line like " A Working Day" or " Corner" I like this a lot so I could understand the movement of the story. In the end Díaz captures perfectly the narrator during a period of his life with Aurora.
Then there is Kurt Vonnegut's " Harrison Bergeron" the two page handout of a story was very capturing for me. I found it particularly interesting about the society that is the year 2081. No one really knows what the year 2081 will be like, but having these devices " handicaps" in their ears that will administer " sharp noises" or for the better word, shocks. The story one setting, the Bergerons, George and Hazel in front of the television watching ballerinas on the television screen. Then out of the blue their son shows up and everything goes chaotic. I think what got me the most about this story is how these parents watch their one and only son be shoot on live television. Their reactions are not dramatic, but they're also not devastated. Once the television goes black, Hazel is sad, but she doesn't know why. She doesn't say it out loud, her and George just say " That one was a doozy."