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Collect all of the observations you’ve written this semester into a single document for your own records. Read them, along with any comments your professor has made, and reflect on your experience reading and exploring short fiction this semester. (You don't have to turn in your collected observations)

Then, write a one-page (double-spaced) message in which you highlight memorable stories, characters, particular passages, moments in class, and any insights or discoveries you may have made in our weeks together. Post your one-page epistle to the Discussion Board, making sure you have proofread for grammatical errors and followed the conventions of standard English. This assignment receives a grade based on the same rubric as your previous two compositions.

Running head: UNPROTECTED 1 ‘Unprotected’ Institutional Affiliation Student’s Name Date UNPROTECTED 2 ‘Unprotected’ Observation Review • The narrator is an item explaining its experience from the factory to the wallet of a boy. The narration is about its life inside the wallet. • It is close to dollars; many of them are ones and fives, a few are tens and twenties, and one time there is a hundred dollar that came as a birthday gift from an older person. There is also a photo of a beautiful girl inside the wallet. • Finally, it is outside the wallet, and it sees the girl from the photo, only that she's smiling. She gets angry when she sees the item, and the boy puts it back on the wallet as they continue arguing. • It meets two friends, student ID and Metro Card, during the summer, and the Metro Card finally explains what it was manufactured to do, which makes him embarrassed, especially since it thought it was a balloon. • The boy changes his wallet and transfers it to another wallet, though most of his friends are gone. It meets a new friend. • It looks out of the wallet and sees a polite neighbor, whose name is cigarettes, but the item gets a weird vibe from them. • Later on, Jordan, the boy, puts two fingers in his pocket to confirm it was there for later, making the item worried. • Then, it is time; he is taken out of the wallet and tossed on the bed in a very dark room. A girl picks it up then turns on the lamb, saying that it may have expired. • There is silence; then it is broken when the humans start to laugh. The girl gets her bag, and even though it wants to watch, it gets covered in clothes. UNPROTECTED • The boy throws it in the trash can but picks it again and puts it in a shoebox, where it is happy and safe for a long time. 3 UNPROTECTED 4 References Rich, S. (2018). Unprotected. The New Yorker. Conde’ Nast Publications. Surname 1 Student’s Name Professor Course Name Date Observations on Audition by Saïd Sayrafiezadeh 1. The title, Audition, somehow assures the reader of a professional accomplishment which in this case doesn’t come to be. 2. The writer begins his story by telling the readers exactly what the story will be about therefore making them eager for more. 3. In this story, hard work is by all accounts something that degrades and pounds because nobody appears to be especially enthusiastic about the thing they're doing, except for the more skilled workers who aren’t prevalent in the story. 4. I do think the storyteller is at any rate attempting to persuade himself that there's some inherent value to the work with regards to his actual craving of being an entertainer. Otherwise, he's not receiving much in return aside from fatigue and eight dollars an hour. 5. The story is unpredictable thus making it hard for the reader to get ahead. 6. The story is also trying to introduce hope to the reader. 7. The storyteller is loaded up with disappointment, uncertainty, and hallucination. Obviously, there's no point of reference in his "midsized" city for turning into a celebrated entertainer, which is the reason he's persuaded he needs to make it out of there and get to L.A. 8. The story settings are in the nineties, while crack was the most popular drug and also while Michael Jordan and Seinfeld reigned. Surname 2 9. This is a tale of a young man’s dream, driving him into drugs and a long diversion from joy throughout everyday life. 10. At last, the story's not actually about where the storyteller is currently as he recounts his story. It's about the moment when everything begins to be a lot for him. It's less about how he attempted to deal with the issue and to a greater extent a proclamation of how significant the issue is.