Extra Credit

Lili Wright is an excellent story teller. She told some very personal stories about events that happened to her throughout her life. The stories she told were extremely detailed. She was very good at creating mental pictures. Some of the mental pictures she created were disturbing. For example, Mrs. Wright told us how her husband and her tried to have a second child. She described how her and her husband had sexual intercourse. I did not need to hear a detailed description of that. She also created some very sad mental images. She told the audience how she lost her second child in the middle of the night. I wanted to cry when she described how she held the grey sac of fluid that was supposed to be her child. I felt so bad for her when she told the audience that she couldn't break down, because her daughter was in the next room. "Mom's can't break down in front of their children, they have to be strong" is what she said. She went through all those hormone injections, and she did an in vitro fertilization for nothing. She also told the audience about how her mother battled breast cancer. Lili Wright shared some very emotional stories with the audience. She didn't just tell stories from her point of view. Towards the end of her reading she told a story from her daughter's point of view. The story from her daughters point of view was from when they took a trip to Spain. The story from her daughter's point of view was very detailed, just like the rest of Mrs. Wright's stories. The daughter's story talked about how she hid under the table at restaurants, and how she jumped on the bed in the hotel. It described everything the daughter did on the trip. At the end of the reading, the audience had a chance to ask Mrs. Wright questions. One audience member asked her if it was hard for her to talk about the sad personal experiences she had been through. Lili Wright told the audience how it was hard for her and how sometimes she would have to stop writing, because it was so hard for her. I think that Lili Wright is an extremely brave person for sharing all her personal stories with the world. Not only does she share her personal stories, but she shares them in extreme detail. I enjoyed Lili Wright's reading, and all her stories. Well most of her stories anyway.