I think that the women in the story is scarred of the silo outside and is unable to sleep and should see a doctor for help. I think that this couple is going through a hard time from losing their boy. I think the man tried to crash the airplane that they bought for their son one christmas into the silo. The ending was unclear and I dont really like the story, it is hard to understand.

A Christmas Story by Larry French

The first six paragraphs were talking about the farmer and his wife. He wanted to take her to the doctor, becasue she was sick. Then it talks about friends of theirs that have already passed away, because they got sick to. They don't give much information about the disease. The story takes a right turn and starts to talk about what the farmer bought his son for Christmas, which was a silver airplaine. The writer gives alot of details about the airplaine. At the end of the story he mentions that he bought the plaine as a Christmas present for his son. I didnt like this story, because it was all over the place. The writer didnt even talk that much about Christmas, so the story should of had a different title.

A Christmas Story

In the first six or so sentences I think that the lady in this story is maby going crazy. They talk about going to a doctor and and she denies it by saying "It's that out there" referring to the silos that have been blowing up for no reason.
I think that maby she doesn't know what to think about it and there is something wrong going on, and baby the couple in the story was loosing their hard work and money by the silo's blowing up.
The significance of the ending to the beginning of the story I think is that when he is riding his son's plane and moving down hill face and remembering when he had bought and spent just a little to much money for it, he was remembering good times in there life before all of the silo's had gone away.

A Christmas Story

In the beginning of A Christmas Story, the married couple are apoligizing to each other for the lose of something. The husband suggests to his wife that she go to talk with someone about her feelings. In my opinion, I think the couple lost their children, and they are in the grieving process. The wife accusses the silos to be the reason for all of their heart aches.
At the end of the story the husband is playing with his son's toy. I think he is realizing how much fun the toy must have been for his son, and this makes him think of happier times.
My reaction to the paper is that this couple is grieving from the lose of their children. This story is the perfect example of how hard it is for a parent to lose a child and to be able to move on with their life.

re, A Christmas Story

In the beginning I didn't know if she was the one who got hurt by or around the silo or possible fell from the silo. I didn't quite follow what the silo had to do with her fears, and why she would have the need to speak to a doctor about it.
Sometimes playing with toys or such things takes your mind off the grown up things that you have to deal with on an everyday bases. It gives a person a chance to go back in time to a more carefree day and fun. Just to let the wind blow in your face from the free wheeling down a drive way in his boy's airplane.
I didn't care for it to much I guess I was expecting something different from the title, I was expecting a story about Christmas not exploding silos.

Reaction to A Christmas Story

The story starts out in the middle of an interaction between two people which leads me to believe that they were attempting to have sex. It seems though that the woman is preoccupied by a new silo in their yard that could be dangerous and can't do it. Seems to me that the part with the empty bedroom with boxed up toys means that they had a child at one time. So by taking the plane down to the other farm the man was remembering the time with his son. So I believe that the couple was trying to conceive another child at the beginning of the story. This story seems to me to have parts where it allows the reader to sort of make their own assumptions as to what is happening.

A Christmas Story

In French's A Christmas Story, a couple broken by a hot summer and recent death's tries to escape the pain. The wife suffers silently, blaming the silos for killing a neighbor and a farmhand. The man, Will, tries to reassure her that the exploding silos will not bother them again. He's just had them inspected, and the explosion at the other farm was a freak incident. At first, it seems like their young son was killed, as the room has a rollaway bed and bozes filled with toys.
Once we are introduced to the airplane, things change. It is unclear to me whether or not "several miles below" means flying (in which case the boy is a young man) or the farm is on a mountain (and the boy would still be young). The ending is significant because by now, the reader knows the boy has died. It explains the boxes and the empty room. Will's last thought in the story occurs when he looks at the ruins of the Nordstrom's, and remembers when he bought the plane for his son at Christmas. My guess is that this signifies his son was a victim of the exploding silos.

A Christmas Story

In all honesty I don't really understand the point. I assume, after reading that there must have been a few accidents with the silos in their county and one was a close by neighbor. The begining starts out with a woman who, to my assumption seems to be sick. I don't really have a guess as to why she may be ill. At the end of the story the man takes his sons toy plane to drive by the neighbors and as he does this he remembers the Christmas he had boughten the plane for his son. I am not quite exactly sure why there is a significance to the ending of this story. There could have possibly been an accident with their silo and their son could have been injured of even passed away; due to the fact that he was never mentioned in this short piece of the story.

My overall response to this story is that I think it does not have enough information but it really allows you to use your imagination as to what happened before this. The story gives you some answers but it's up to you to uncover the truth.

A Christmas Story

In the beginning, It was very unclear to me. I didn't really understand what the story was about. I felt that something tragic must have happend because the man and woman were discussing whether or not they should see a doctor. Once I got to the end of the story I pretty much understood most of what was happening. I think there little boy died in the silo on the farm. At first I was very confused when I read the first couple of lines, but after I thought about it and got to the end it was more clear to me.

A Chirstmas Story

Within the first six sentences I read, I felt that someone is depressed or just sad, and something tragic happened in someones life, and they aren't sure on how to go about with getting help to try and make thing better for themselves. As I was reading along and got towards the end of the story I realized that their son had died also just like the other guy that had.

At first I was kind of confused about what was going on in the story, but when i went back a read again I understood that their son had died. I thought it was a pretty good story. It made you really concentrate on what you were reading, and really made you use your "creative" side a little in a way, if that's the right word. Overall, I thought it was a good short reading.