Conner+P

The End of Truman Capote... Or is It? **Characters:**

// (From __A Diamond Guitar__) //
Mr. Schaeffer, a fifty year old man who is looked up to and feared by the other prisoners. He was sentenced to ninety-nine years in prison for killing a man. He is one of few who can read and write. He has greying red hair and is lanky. He is the protagonist in this short story. // (From __House of Flowers__ // ) Ottilie, a seventeen year old girl native to Port-au-Prince. She lives with a group of girls in a place called, Champs Elysees. She is the only native living there. She meets a man named Royal at a cockfight and falls in love with him. She was very populare in town and when she left to marry Royal she was missed by all. // (From __A Christmas Memory__) // Buddy is a seven year old boy who lives with his cousin, Sook, and other relatives. Their family is really poor, but Buddy is excited about Christmas. His only friend is sixty years old and stills acts like a child so that affects Buddy's social life. // (From __Breakfast at Tiffany's__) // Holly Golightly is about nineteen and is the protagonist in this short story. She is a country girl turned New Yorker has no job. She is beautiful and lives by "socializing" with wealty men.

**Summary:** //A Diamond Guitar// is about two convicts who soon become good "firends". On Valentine's Day they both agree to try and escape the following day. They both succeed in getting away but Mr. Schaeffer breaks his ankle in a shallow creek. //House of Flowers// is about a native girl living with a group of girls. She falls in love with another native and marries him. She soon becomes unhappy with her marriage because she and her husband have to live with his mother, who is a complete butthead. So she decides to do something about. //A Christmas Memory// is about two boys, who both come from poor families, decide to make fruitcakes for people that they have met only once or twice. So they go on many adventures getting ingredients and giving them out. //Breakfast at Tiffany's// is about a country girl who turns into a New York cafe society girl. She has no job, but she makes a living by socializing with wealthy men who give her money and buy her expensive gifts. Over a span of a year she slowly reveals herself to her close friend. But she is afraid that he will be judgemental toward her way of life.

Rating:
I rate this book at a solid three mostly because I am not a fan of this particular style of book. The short stories were interesting to read but I would not make it a habit for myself. I also think that these stories were a little weird in the suggestiveness it showed.

Wiki Reflections:
I think that using Wiki as a place to discuss our independent reading is a great idea if you want it to be totally online. I thought it was a great idea myself until I started the first day. I don't know why but I never really got the hang of it and all it did for me was frustrate and stress me out.