Homework for Friday

On a literal level, calling home is about a thirteen year old who shoplifts a button from a store and as a punishment has to go to the police station, get questioned and then gets put in a jail cell waiting for her parents to get her out. While An American Childhood is more about how a girl learned that anyone who is persistent can know the joy of pushing all of yourself at one thing through running away from a man who just would'nt give up even after they ran over ten blocks.
There is a lot of naming and detailing in the paragraphs on the two stories. In both stories there was a lot of names for people and a lot of descriptive things and there was also a lot of different types of objects in each of the stories. Sometimes they name characters in the story and that's all they do with them they give a little information or background of the character and drop it there. the names helps you visualize the people because they help you tell somewhat of what they are like because a name says a lot about a person. Also, with the names of the people u can visualize the scene better because u can imagine what the people are like from their names which makes it easier to picture in your mind. I think that a story is better with details because u can visualize it easier and a story is always better when u can visualize it.
A well-told story can have a lot of different things that make it good. It can build suspense, arouses curiosity in its readers and concludes the actions while resolving the conflict in the story. Another thing a well told story can have is it can focus on a single incident in a relatively short amount of time. Something i would add to the list is that a well-told story either has something important to tell us or it is at least interesting, or it could possibly be both entertaining and have something important to say.