I Read a Conversation with My Father" and "Stepdaughters

“ I read A Conversation with My Father “ by Grace Paley which was about a narrator whose father had a heart issue. He was 85 years old and he was lying in bed while he was talking to his daughter. He wanted her to write a story a simple story. She writes one and he says it is not quite what he was looking for. So she rewrites it and this time with a little more detail. He still does not like this story because it does not have a very good ending. He is trying to get his daughter to realize that tragedy does exist but she keeps making jokes trying to avoid this fact. At the end the father asks her " when will you look it in the face?".  Story telling accomplishes nothing if you don't know how to tell stories that have any significant meaning. The stories such Cinderella what does that do for anybody nothing but in Conversation With My Father you realize that there is tragedy that not everything ends with a happy ending. Story telling only matters if it does something to you or changes something in your life because if it didn't we would not read or tell stories.

The most important literary element in Stepdaughters was the character Stephanie and how she loved doing this sport but her mother hated. In Stepdaughters it talks about a man who had married a lady named Helen her ex husband had previously died. But Helen has a daughter named Stephanie. Stephanie and her step dad do not get along that well though as much as he tries nothing ever worked. So later Stephanie starts up this sport called shot-putting which was were you would throw a steel ball as far as you could but when she started doing this her neck muscles her arms everything started to become very big her mother was not happy about this. Her mother, Helen, actually tried to do everything she could to stop is she talked to Stephanie's coach but nothing worked. Her mother grew more and more angry it soon began to cause fights between them all the time. The reason the Helen did not like this so much was...