The Third Night and The Bonfire

The next two stories I read were short so I am going to combine them into one entry. The Third Night is about an older gentlemen and a dream he is having. In the dream the older gentlemen is caring a young child on his back and he is walking through the woods. Throughout the dream the older man and the child carry on a strange conversation. The older gentlemen never seems to know what the child is talking about. This part of the story made me think modern day and how some of the older people do not understand the language that teenagers are using. At one point in the story the kid asks the older man if he is heavy and he says know and the kid tells him that he will soon become very heavy. Well eventually they reached this big tree in the middle of the woods and the kid told him "a hundred years ago you killed me", and the kid became heavy. To me the whole moral of the story was that your guilty conscience will always come back to haunt you, and that you can never escape your past.
The third story The Bonfire was a very sweet little story about how an older man found comfort in something that some children had done without even knowing it. When the older man found the bonfire on the beach it made me really happy because it was so cold and lonely. It was great to see how such a small thing could make such a big difference. It made me think of how everyone in the U.S. will slowly start to have to get used to the little things since the economy is crumbling.