The story Ribbons, was a very well written, interesting and thoughtful. In the beginning of the story Meredith was shown as a happiest person in the world but as you get deep into the story the cold hard truth comes up that Meredith has breast cancer and her boyfriend was dead. This story was filled with descriptive shades of pink and other colors. The mention of colors every paragraph made the story as colorful. I also liked the twist at the end of the story. I thought the moral of the story was that flashing the big smile on the face every day and dressing bright and colorful doesn't mean that person is always happy from inside.

There were many symbols like shades of pink mention the color of breast cancer awareness. The poems were the toughest symbol for describing the feelings of Meredith. I thought the whole story was a symbol for something bad about to occur. It was tough figuring out the symbols at first but after you read the whole story all the puzzle pieces started to make sense.

By going it over in class I had others opinion of the story and we together as class made great inferences about the story. I liked how we stopped every few paragraphs to discuss what had happen and dump our thoughts and share it with class. It made it a lot easier to understand the story as everyone had different opinions. I liked our class discussion because it gave out the general idea of the story and we got to hear the different interpretation and morals of the story.

There were many literary devices such as hyperbole used when referencing Meredith. It said that how God could see her (Meredith) from above the skies. Other literary device distinctio was mentioned, for example when author mentioned all the shade of pinks such as carnation, fandango, cerise, puce, salmon and roses. Author wanted to make sure that the reader thought of the shades of pink. Therefore, mentioning pink so many times. Author also used foreshadowing at the end of the story, how he left off by saying "hoping that tomorrow would be the day that all the burdens will be released from their shoulders and the truth will finally be reveled." 

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