Student+Responses+-+A+Horse+and+Two+Goats

Writing Assignment: What are your thoughts and feelings after having read this story? Please do not write an "I liked it" or "I didn't like it" type response. Instead, respond to the content of the story itself. What did the story make you think about? What feelings do you have about the events or characters in the story? Did anything confuse you? Is there anything you would like to know more about?

The story is terrific. Narayan has a special talent to write his stories humorous, including less action rather conflicts and crises, as you can see in the story. I really like this. These two men, an American tourist and an India vilager, talking at cross purposes; each of them speaks a monologue, but it never becomes a dialog. The story shows the contrast between rich and poor and between East and West. Linda

Reading the story was interesting, like the others, and a bit funny. That the story nearly doesnt have a plot, is a good variety to other stories. It was also easy to read, and short. //Johannes//

The story was both funny and with a deeper meaning, because it showed how these different people think and how they act when they interface with someone they don't understand 1273235766

Reading the book was quite fun. It was very fun to "read" this big missunderstanding. I didn´t understand, why the New yorker didn,t piont at the statue to show that he wants it, and not the two goats. I think if he had do it the missunderstanding would not be so confused.1273244353

When I began reading the story, I did not really like the story, but after a while it started to be more interesting, because we could see how the two utterly different men had a conversation. They did not have the same theme and it was a bit funny to follow this conversation. But I could not really figure out the message or the sense the story had. (Theresa Kramm)

Reading this story was first boring, later than more and more funny. But there is no really "action" in the story, the people are only speaking in their language and no one understands the others words and in the end there is only leftover a big misunderstanding. I can't really understand what the author tries to convey with this story. yaha1

In the beginning, this short story seemed to me a little bit boring and I did not really like it. However, then it became more interesting. The misunderstanding of both completely different men was very amusing/funny. In the end I liked the story well. In this story, the big difference between India's very old eastern tradition in culture and religion, rich in spirit worths, and western way of life in America, directed more in an external existence, the Author showed very well and humorous through the both men the difficulty, being caught in their own cultures, languages and minds, unable to come to a real understanding for one another. The end of the story stays open and so the answer on the question, how to get this realized, is still open too. (Anika W.)

This story had a funny aspect, mainly because the tourist gave a poor man a fortune for nothing. But it is also sad, that the man came there and did not stop before the cultural value of a statue, and bought it only as a souvenir. Also that the tourist does not know anything about Hinduism and he does not seem to be interested in it. The story also shows how the Indian culture is being forgotten more and more, like the horse does. (anna)

In the beginning I didn't understand the story very good. Some passages I had to read twice, but then the story came clearer to me and I began to like story. It is very funny, how the missunderstanding of the two men gets deeper and deeper until the end. The story shows his message, different thinking in different worlds, very good!! 1278616267