Reading Response, Week 8

Bigfoot Stole My Wife

I love short opening lines that catch your attention. When you write that becomes a fundamental - teachers will tell you, even in scholarly writing, to always start with an "attention grabbing" sentence. "The problem is credibility" does that for me. it peeks my curiosity. And then to keep going with it , to continue and repeat the theme in the second sentence leaves my mouth watering. I am also drawn by the theme. In the very first paragraph I can't help but thinking of the time when I asked my mother if I told her, promised her, that Aliens visited me and no one else believed me, would she? Of course she said yes.
The way the second paragraph starts is where I start to have that tingly feeling - when subjects tell you that they've basically been paranoid for two years you start to get the feeling that you are in the midst of something strange going on. I love the way he admits to being too caught up in gambling to see the problem, but decides to remain completely oblivious to what the problem is! I gad to snicker at the signs of intrusion and the smell. I love how disconnected he is. I want to lie him, but he's a total shmuck. And then he defends himself by calling the world a bunch of cynics. Then, when we get to the story about the trailer being washed away I get that aha moment because he talks about something real happening that seems unlikely, like the "impossible possible" scenarios I pondered as a child and immediately thought of when starting to read this story. It's like the author read my mind. I like how, in the ending, the subject is telling us to believe. Believe in everything. Do not question, be blind in the faith of all words. he has to, because if not he will have to face reality - something he has been running from all his life.