I choose as my short story Full Stop, because the beginning seemed weird without punctuation marks, and then I realized that the story consists of letters, which was interesting.
The main character is Carmen. She writes letters to her grandma and very often sends money to her (she uses the money to something very other than it’s ment to). Grandma always writes back, without punctuation, and is always thanking God about everything. Grandma had raised Carmen, and her real mom tries to correspondence with her. Carmen’s mom had got sick, and she wants to go to surgery in Carmen’s homecity. One day mom appears to her place, and tells Carmen a very different version of Carmen’s childhood, than she had heard from her grandma.
Grandma’s reaction to Carmen’s first letter is rather provident and. She is also a bit stingy, because even if she’s quite old, she wants to paint the house herself. I would also say that she really is a good christian. In her nine letters, she mentioned God for at least 18 times. That’s a lot that.
Carmen’s mom’s and grandma’s versions of her childhood were different. I somehow believe more grandma’s version, because she has taken care of her granddaughter for the whole Carmen’s life. On the other hand, grandma said her own daughter as a snake. That doesn’t sound as a good christian’s talk. After all, it really is very hard to trie to say which one is telling the truth. In the last letter grandma says that she will put up the burglar bars which she had resisted at first. Maby it’s just that when the thieves had gone to a house of someone she had known, she really understood the situation. That they are able to go in her house, and rob it.
Carmen’s brother, Richie, doesn’t keep in touch with grandma. In the letters Carmen and grandma didn’t talk about Richie very much. But I still do think, that Richie’s reason for not keeping touch with grandma could be that he is more in connection with his mom. Maby he just believes another person than her sister does.
This short story was nice and a bit funny too. Sometimes the letters were hard to read without commas and other marks. I liked it very much and recommend it to others too!