Where do new ideas come from?

New ideas come from life experiences, an event that is taking place during a certain time period, and also through your imagination. Life experiences helps you to have new ideas because say for example, you are a little kid and you try your first lollipop. You can have an idea of how the lollipop taste because you have experienced it. If you haven't, you probably wouldn't be able to because you haven't experienced it yet. Events that take place during a certain time can help you have new ideas because in the story, "The Sniper" the event was the Irish Civil War. This event can help you think of something like a conflict between families or how the wars were so intense from all of the enemies. Lastly, ideas can come from your imagination. If you have a very creative imagination, then you can think of ideas easily. For example, if you are a very creative person, and you have to write your own short story, you would be able to have very vivid and interesting ideas. As you can see, there are various ways of where new ideas can come from. You can get them from experiences, events, and through an imagination.

My Favorite Story

As I reflect over our short story unit, out of the three, my favorite short story was "Lamb to the Slaughter". Primarily, I was drawn to this story because of the way the the conflict was formed. I enjoyed studying how people formed different relationships and their conflicts (Lamb to the Slaughter-husband and wife that are splitting up, The Sniper-brothers end up going against each other and are opposing each other through war, Thank You Ma'am -"teacher - Luella" "student - Roger ")and how they dealt with their conflicts. Further, with an improved understanding of how society worked back in around the early 1950's, the story's setting. It was interesting about how Mary decided to deal with how her husband was going to leave her, the story's resolution, but I thought that making this type of conflict was a very effective way that the author communicated his message about this story.