sjsprWriting

I don't have a favorite short story. I'm sad to say I only read them whenever I am assigned to read them for English class. It's not that I don't want to read short stories, it's just that whenever I have free time or am bored my first thought isn't "Hey, I think I'm going to read a short story", it's usually "Im going to read a book" or "I'm going to call ____" or "I'm going to watch TV", etc. But out of all the stories I've read in English class my favorite genre is definitely Greek mythology- short stories such as "Arachne", the sphinx section of "Oedipus Rex", the story of Daedalus and his son, or the one of Persephone and how she ended up in the underworld. Yes, these are tragedies, and I wish they had happier endings, but there is so much creativity, magic, and human emotion in these stories that it makes up for it. When I say that there are a lot of human emotions, what I mean is that the tragic hero of the story has a fatal flaw that people can identify themselves with. This "fatal flaw" shows us that although he is a hero, he is still human and can make mistakes. Because of the mixture of reality and fantasy in Greek mythology, I can imagine what I am reading as if it were happening in real life.