Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Introduction

The follwing is my final project blog on the process and experience of reading and analyzing the short story, "The Man in the Well" by Ira Sher.

A short summary of the story:

The basic plot of the story is that a group of kids are playing in a field near their homes and the narrator comes across a well with a man in it who is shouting for help. The children begin to run for help, but somewhere along the way decide against getting anyone. The rest of the story consists of the children dodging the man's questions about when help will arrive and it ultimately ends with the children saying nothing to anyone and thusly they end up leaving the man in the well.

**Note added 3/13/10**

I stumbled across this reading of "The Man in the Well" done by Ira Sher on This American Life. It was interesting to hear Sher reading his story outloud and made me think of other questions and answers than when I read it off the page originally. The story was grouped into a series called "The Cruelty of Children". That title alone assisted me in the subsequent readings of the piece that I write about later. The whole broadcast is about 60 minutes long and all the pieces are worth listening to, but Sher's piece starts at around the 30 minute mark. The link to the broadcast follows: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/sites/all/play_music/play_full.php?play=27

Enjoy!

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