The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez

The story was good ... at times, however I felt that I was drifting off at times. This story just didn't "do it for me." It lacked something, I just can't put my finger on it. However, I'm just happy to be done with it. Too many variations for my liking.

The variations however annoying were kind of interesting. It was neat to see that stories that are passed down sometimes get twisted and tangled. In some variations you'd see a whole different town names, different bounty prices for Cortez, and the Mexican vs. American scenes. These had all been "changed" in the variations.

We played a game called "telephone" in class a day before we had begun reading this story. Dr. Sherwood told someone a "secret" and the object was for that secret to be passed around the room person by person. You could only whisper it to the person next to you so no one else hears it. After it went around the room the final "secret" was completely different than what was first told. This shows you how mixed up things can get as they are passed down. Maybe this whole Cortez story has been misheard. Who knows ... ?

Overall it was a DECENT story, wouldn't read it again for fun that's for sure.