Monday, October 7, 2013

Finally (Short Stories 1)

First, I would love to say how happy I am to be done reading poetry! I love reading fiction, and can comprehend it so much better, but now with my reaction to one of the short stories. Even though it wasn't that short, I read Internal, which is part of Contagion by Brian Evenson.

While reading this I became very interested, and came up with multiple questions. At the beginning this intern works for a Doctor Rauch, which raised the question of what kind of doctor was he? I assumed he was a psychologist because of the section that explained the books he wrote and also he sends his intern to study the behaviors of his brother. Sending his "irregular intern", which brings up another question of why is this intern so irregular? The intern seemed like any other intern, doing their job and following directions. When the intern gets to the apartment to study the brother, it reminded me of a horror flick. The imagery was so vivid, I actually thought of the movie 1408, which is a horror movie about a person getting trapped in a hotel room. One thing that I don't quite understand about this section is why Doctor Rauch would send his intern to an apartment for his brother to be studied when clearly no one has lived in the rooms on either side for some time. Was he trying to study his intern, and just told them that they were doing some research for him?

The second part caught me off guard a little bit. I thought it was going to end the same way the first half did, with the intern going to observe some one and then coming back empty handed, but it took a turn. The apartment seems to be a lot like the first apartment that the intern had to go to to observe. What really through me off was that instead of the intern observing, they in turn are being observed. Which makes me think that Doctor Ragan set his intern up to be observed by his brother, or maybe it wasn't even his brother...   The ending left me wanting to know more about what happened. Who was actually observing the intern, and what part did Ragan have in the whole set up? UGH! The ending is too abrupt, I want to know the whole story!

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