4th post

The Way We Age Now
The quote that first caught my attention in this story was “even genetically twins vary widely in life span: the typical gap is more than fifteen years.” I find this quote fascinating because twins are born the same time, look the same, have the same genes, and have many more similarities but yet they are so different and this quote proves it. Because twins have so many similarities I find this quote hard to believe because fifteen years is a long gap for people who are the same. After thinking on this quote I started to think it is extremely believable because just because twins have the same genetics and looks does not mean they have the same life style. If one twin smoked cigarettes and drank and the other did not it makes perfect sense that the one who didn’t drink or smoke would live longer.

Everybody’s Nickname
I personally think this story is mostly boring. The author begins the story talking about sci-fi movies and immediately my interest is lost. As I was reading I would find myself getting confused because I felt like the author was jumping back and forth between stories. He went to talking about sci-fi movies to a pregnant eighth grader’s murder. Although I was mainly bored during this story, the part where he talked about the eighth grader, Casey, getting murder caught my intention. I found the way he wrote was different from many authors. The way he introduced Casey and her murderer which was the father to her baby was significant. The father or murderer is first introduced as an eleven year old boy being elected mayor of the day then next a murderer. The author explains the father kills Casey because she is fourteen and he is twenty and if people out he was the father he would be charged with statutory rape. This part of the story is not only bizarre but very disturbing. But, it was the only time the story did not completely bore me.