Literary Elements

I have noticed many examples of literary elements in the short stories we have read so far. For example, in every short story that we've read, we can tell from the 1st paragraph that they are sad stories. Plus, many of the stories end with the main character dying while other stories end with the protagonist feeling sorry for themselves. These stories are not really interesting to me in any way whatsoever because of their endings.

This paragraph contains the amount of time I spent reading “The Book Thief” and the short stories this week. 10/8/12:  30 min.  10/9: 30 min. 10/10: 30 min. 10/12: 30 min. 10/13:  30 min. 10/14:  30 min.