Hard Decisions

My favorite of the four stories that we read was "The Book of Sand." In this story, the narrator makes a decision to get rid of this "Book of Sand." He realized what the book was doing to him and how it was affecting him. He thought about burning it, then decided that a better decision would be to place it in the basement of a library where other books were placed, hoping that it …

…escape. I think of these four stories that I read, the narrator of "The Book of Sand's" decision had the biggest effect in that it changed the way he lived his life when he received the book, but the "Boys and Girls" narrator had the harder decision. This is because she had to decide whether to let the horse die and feed her family, or save the horse. Both stories were excellent in my mind.