The Story "Killing Alec"

This fiction tells the story of four girls (include narrator) who find out they have the same boyfriend named Alec who is cheating on them, and therefore they decided to kill him. In the story, it can be seen that all the girls love Alec very much and they care about him a lot. But yet they still decide to kill him without hesitate but even feel very excited when discussing which way should he die. And Alec is a careless and muddleheaded man. At first, he made the mistake that dating with four girls, but then when they decide to kill him, he did not agree but also not show strong opposition. He even took a stand that he liked manhunt most as the way he died.

I think what is working in this story is the element of absurdness. The whole events happened in this story seemed very abnormal and wired, but the narrator tells them in a very normal mood just like they are the ordinary things happen in daily lives. And this feeling makes the story more interesting and mysterious that the reader wants to know more with the story developed. And the thing need to be change is that this story seems to please the reader with absurdness and unreasonable plots which is very interesting and creative but also make confuses. So maybe in the end of the story there can be something happen that are more rational and arouse the audiences’ emotion which gives the story a meaningful ending.