Aimee Bender in my opinion, is such a phenomenal writer. She has unique skills in the way that she writes due to her ability to relate the 'stories' to a fictional, yet realistic setting.
In the short story Ironhead, Bender tells a story about a boy with an iron for a head is born into a family of pumpkinheads. The iron-head can be metaphoric for several things. However, in my opinion, I feel as if it symbolized 'having weight on ones shoulders' as well as the aspect of racism. This ideal can then be related to the author Wendy Rose as she had the same struggles growing up in her family where her father was Hopi and mother Irish/Scottish.
In Benders second story of the week, Motherfucker, bender takes on the role of expressing the true meaning of the word motherfucker in all literal sense. She tells the story of a man who likes to sleep with mothers and ultimately helps an actress find her true self. At the end, one can come to the conclusion that this man is truly lonely.
These to short works can be compared in the theme of loneliness. Each character was individually depressed or left alone because of different reasons. Overall, the moral is that different people cope differently and depression/racism/loneliness can have severe negative effects and we all must learn to recognize that and help one another.
Courtney Bisher
Blog Post 7.
Glad you enjoyed Bender as much as you did. There definitely is something "magical" about the way she tells a story.
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