short stories

Here are some links for those of you who are interested in reading some short stories:

http://www.americanliterature.com/sstitleindex.html
http://www.classicreader.com/
http://www.classicshorts.com/index.shtml

Hey,
I just found a really great video about a BBC debate about immigration and racism.
And it is with a member of the BNP (a right wing party).
Really a great video!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iKfrY9l2kY&feature=related (it's just the first part, the other ones will appear on the side)

College Life

The Education supplement of the New York Times features the college life. You'd beentering your Freshman year if you were in the States. Maybe you find something of interste to you, all the articles and pictures are by college students!
Enjoy your holidays!

Doris Lessing on YouTube.com & Extra Links

This video shows a section of an interview with Doris Lessing in 2007 on the occassion of the Nobel Prize she won:



I always find it interesting to get to know more about the authors of the stories I read, so I searched for some information about the writers of the short stories in order to share it with you. I found some websites which I put into the pictures on the right hand side. So you just have to click on it to get to the belonging website.
There is also a website where you can read thousands of short stories online, including the ones in "One Language Many Voices". You can search the author by name and get a listing of all his/her writings.

Online Literature Network

Feel free to comment or post other links that might be interesting! ;-)

A Hungry Crowd

I must say that I have never before experienced perfectly respectable and peacful neighbours become wild and aggressive.

Yesterday I witnessed a large crowd pressing a police officer, who seemed completely overstrained by the situation, to shoot an Elephant.

The Elephant had been rioting about in the village and had even killed a man because it had gone "must". Elephants sometimes do that but they actually are peaceful animals and really I think most of the people in the crowd new this but they probably didn't listen to their concience, which would have surely forbidden to kill a peaceful animal.

I pitied the creature, but what could I have done against a rioting mass of hungry people? Nothing. Yes, I suppose this was the main reason for all the trouble: people, living under these conditions we have to endure because of those British agents, are hungry! They just could not hold it any longer and there was a good reason for shooting the Elephant , too because it had gone "must".

The funny thing, in my opinion, about all this is, that the crowd was a lot wilder in chasing that poor police officer than the Elephant had ever been.

I am also disappointed in the officer. He should have resisted, but, of course one must say, he didn't have the courage. The crowd would have probably taken thet rifle away from him by force and done the job itself any way but not being able to fight for justice, even for animals, is, in my opinion, gutless.

The cruel shooting of an elephant

Yesterday, I was shocked because of an abandoned elephant who was killed by Eric Blair, a British officer. He shots more than one time out of the elephant who died, after this attack, a very long cruel death.

We were very helpless, so Eric Blair must do our work for us. So he killed the elephant with his old rifle.


In this moment, he didn't know, that he will kill an innocent elephant. He didn't feel very confident in the crowd of natives because he hate his work out of pety for the natives. He feels guilty to be a part of the British imperialism and he see the burmese people as a further threat against him becouse for him they are untruthful and cowardly.


But i can't understand why he had killed the elephant? He didn't think about what he had done. He was also very helpless like the natives. He is not qualified for this job here, because he made the thinks worser than before.
We don't need the british in our country.

British official killed innocent animal

It was a shocking scene yesterday, Eric Blair, a british official, killed an elephant with many shoots out of a german rifle. The elephant died a long painfully death, because the britain did not shoot really precisly. His shoots were scattered in the body of the elephant.
The british official was called to kill the elephant by rumors, apparently the elephant had gone on a rampage in the town and had destructed some buildings. But after nobody could find these destructions of the buildings. It was only a build of lies.
In an interview Eric Blair said that he was shocked as he heard he killed an innocent elephant. When he was called for help, he took his rifle and ran to the location of the elephant. He explained that he received wrong information and is awfully sorry about this incedent. The owner of the elephant guessed that somebody gave Eric Blair the wrong information with purpose. The British administration is not favoured in this country. This incedent depictes the goverment of the Britain worse organized and critizised it.
The action of Eric Blair is also very dubious, why he killed the elephant so cruel and fast?
He did not answere on this question. My opinion is that the british were on the wrong place. They destructed our country and exploit our important trades of our agriculture.
The British Empire has to dissappear. It is the only solution to escape of our poverty.