Today I looked at two books on that was the vintage boo of Latin American short stories and the other was a book of short storied written by female Latin American authors about the mystical and the real. The second book is the one that I spent the most time looking at. I read a few short stories. One that interested me was “The Unborn Child” which was about a mothers and her relationship with a child she aborted. Surprisingly I was reading another short story called “The Virgin’s Passion” and one of the first few sentences had an abortion reference. The two stories could probably be contrasted well and I decided to go back and look at them in depth later. I ended up making copies of two stories, one from each book, that were written by Clarice Lispector. I thought if I read two stories by the same author I would have an easier time finding themes that ran through both stories. So tonight I’m going to read her short story “Love” and “Looking for Some Dignity” and hopefully I can find some themes, and if not, I will go back and re-read the other stories tomorrow in class.