My favorite story

Aria Bashizadeh Fakhar
Daily Journal
I would definitely have to say that Ira Sher, the author of “The Man in the Well” has sparked my interest the most. Though his story was short, it gave me the most what the f*** moments I have had in this class so far. Just thinking about how demented someone has to be to think of a story so bizarre, so cruel and open ended simply boggles my mind. And it’s a story about children nonetheless, which intrigues me even more as to what was going on in Ira’s head. His writing style wasn’t too stylish or difficult to read, but it had me pressing on and on, I had read the story twice, and I rarely do that if I understood the story the first time. I just had to keep reading it to try and grasp what message he was conveying, and what thought processes were involved in the writing of the story. I thought it was brilliant, and that it had a great message behind it, or at least to me it did.