tkral15’s Blog

i liked reading deacon taylor this section. it reminded me of that saying that goes truth comes out after death. I think its ironic how the whole town thought that the Deacon died from eating a watermelon. It’s like because he was part of the church no one suspected anything else. When really everyday he would drink. He said he drank from a bottle marked spiritu frumenti-which means whiskey. So basically this man had another side to him. He would be innocent to the people-someone they could look up to, trust. He says he even belonged to the party of prohibition! yet every noon he would pour himself a generous drink.

one thing that i am really enjoying about this book is the conflicts between certain people. It’s interesting to see different sides of a persons story. It’s kidna like these people’s last explanations, like if they hadnt passed away, this is how they would explain their death. one of my favorites from the section we read was between knowlt hohemier and lydia puckett. Knowlt says he turned a solider beacause he wanted to escape from going to jail. She says it was beacuse he found her sneaking around with another man and they got into a fight . I think these things are so crazy. Who do we believe. I wish i could go back and talk to some of these characters to get the stories straight. The spoon river anthology reminds me of a big gossip magizine, or like two. Like US weekly, OK, and Star Magazines. the  magazines tell the same stories, but sometimes from a different person. Like the feud between Lauren and Heidi- one magazine interviews lauren, the other heidi, and one another friend. They all give different reasons, different stories, just like this book.