Taiwei Chang

     For me, I have never read about microfiction before. This class gives me a chance to realize these amazing little stories.       The style of storytelling would be simple, pithy and attractive. They are simple because all of them are very short, each was about 100 words long. Describing some things which are close to life are common in these stories.       Also, they are pithy. I found this characteristic from Tiny Love Stories. For example, in the stories, I Can't Believe You Heard Me and Boys, Bikinis and Cubed Fruit , they both depict a tiny but important thing from the life of the protagonist. In the first story, the author tells us how her husband and dog take care of her when she suffered from coronavirus. For the second story, the author talks about how love could be a bowl of cut fruit.      For me, the most intriguing story would be Ting Love Stories. I realized the power of small things from our life. ...

The Fables of Aesop by Joseph Jacobs (1894)     The little stories in Nature and Inanimate Objects would be my favorite at this part. The main characteristics are similar to the earlier part. For now, I would like to talk about those stories from some different aspects.      First, the third-person view would be the most commonly used perspective in this part. It provides the author with a border perspective. The author could use this method to avoid their own bias when they tell the story. For Aesop's Fables, the place where the author expresses his own opinion is at the end of each story. Moreover, the author uses this method to remove the side effect of the third-person view. When we use the third-person view to write a story, it always makes the story hard to build a connection with readers, and it is rigid compared to the other two points of view. However, a concluding sentence could smooth these disadvantages since it shows the author's thoughts directl...

The Fables of Aesop by Joseph Jacobs (1894)     My favorite part of this story would be the "Lions". I got some inspiration after reading this part. It is comprised of several little stories, and all those stories use the lion as their main character.     The plots of the Fables of Aesop are concise and terse. Each little story may only have seven to eight sentences, but each sentence would be an important part to push the plot forward. There are no tremendous adjectives that inset in the story or excellent descriptions of different scenes. The author's goal is only to tell the story clearly.       Besides, these little stories constitute an entity. I realized that every single story could represent a different lion. None of the lions in these little stories are the same, but they work together and show the infinite possibilities of fairy tales. For example, in the story  The Lion's Share , the lion is selfish and uncourteous. It would...