ok, i didnt really understand kaleidoscope or rocket man. what is the authors purpose for each one?

do you mean you don't understand why you didn't pick up the book and read the story and don't understand the story?

Sheesh, they're SHORT stories. Do the reading.

You�ve given no indication that you have read the stories so I assume that you are doing exactly what I might have done in your place and trying to get by without the boring reading. How many things have you read that just stunned you like a brick wall of boredom? But these stories? Ah, if you read these stories I guarantee that at some time in the future you will want to share them with someone you are talking to. They are that good. Good fortune to you, student.

If you don't read the stories you're cheating yourself. Thanks for saying I rock.

I think dandelionrocks33 actually read those stories...

...but doesn't get it. And that there is what's happening. I can look at a Monet painting and don't get it. I can have it explained to me...and humm a tune I heard on the radio in my mind until some instructor is finished describing the thoughts behind those paint strokes. There must be a sensitivity to what is true in anything. Sort of the body language of 'what is'. Intuitive stuff. It's not taught. It comes naturally. But so much can block out the natural nowadays. I mean, what is so difficult to understand about therse two stories?

They were cut and dry for me in 4th. grade many moons ago when digital watches had a black blank face until you pushed the button and whala, the red time. Calculators cost hundreds, the microwave oven was "spaceage", a few years later, if you were filthy rich enough to even buy/have a mobile phone, you looked like Robert Duvall in Apocalypse Now nonchalantly ordering a strike of pleasant napalm in the morning...oh I strayed, just read the book, you won't regret it. Beleive us, we used to be cool like you are.