Bullet in the Brain!

After reading Bullet in the Brain by Tobias Wolff I was to the point where I was speechless on how I felt with this piece of reading. In the beginning, I thought, it was the journey of a man being captured in a robbery, but then the story completely flipped going into great detail of a man named Anders having a bullet go through is brain. After thinking and analyzing the story, I believe, this story means you only think of something true to your heart, or something that means strongly to you in some way, is what comes up in a tragic situation, what ever it may be. To me it means, that unfortunately in a situation, like the short story, it is what makes you think of an exciting, uplifting situation that you have not thought about in years. And when your down to the last minutes, seconds of your life, that is what comes up. It can be unfortunate it ways, but also calming to realize the last moments of your life, is the most enjoyable. How the story as shaped me and trying to make me see is that no matter what situation your put into, try and make the best out of it. But also with this short story, I have a hard time thinking about how it shaped or affected me in some way.

The reason why I feel this way because throughout the story I was extremely confused on what the author was trying to tell his readers. I was the ones that got confused! One paragraph he is describing in amazing detail the direction the bullet went through the man's head. Then next he is describing what the man has remember, though past experience, but to what the man was really thinking when he took in is last breaths. I got lost, too lost to the point that at the end of the story, I really did not enjoy it. I was very uncomfortable with the comments the robber made when Anders was looking in careful detail of the ceiling and of the man's eyes. It was not necessary for those reactions. Overall I would have to say that I have never read any piece like this before, would I again? Yes, I believe, to get a more of an understanding of what the author is trying to get the readers to see, hear, or plainly understand what their writing our about.