How To Brief Summary Of Monsters By Pat Rathbone

People tell stories all the town. Often people have the opportunity to publish their work. The story I choose is from Story Magazine. It is called “Monsters” by Pat Rathbone. It was published June 22, 2015. The story revolves around a professor and her student. The student was referred to this professor, by a friend, for impromptu counseling. The student, Luisa, tells her story using metaphors and analogies. It’s a dark story of survival. Luisa was taken away from her family and her will and hope was somewhat broken. She recounts her life in jail and how her captors tried to break her spirit. Her professor, Maggie, listen with baited breath as Luisa tells her story. Luisa is also self-destructive. She spent her time doing things to try to

Her stories seem to flow when she is in a relaxed setting. “Luisa eyes the asparagus I am preparing for our dinner. She says my kitchen is her cooking school—Maggie’s Culinary Institute, she calls it” (Rathbone). To help Luisa talk about her past, she would always begin with symbol. She would use both asparagus and fruit peels to begin her story. Luisa would start off with this analogy and the plunge into what could only be acts of horror. “If you cook asparagus a lot,” she says, watching me, “you can tell a very good fresh asparagus from a bad one. If you really know asparagus, Maggie, no one is going to fool you very easily. If you have eaten rotten asparagus, then you know all there is to know about rotten asparagus—how it looks and how it tastes,” she says. “And being in the presence of such terribly disgusting parts of human nature shows you just what we are capable of, we humans. If you don’t totally dissociate—and I didn’t—no one can bullshit you ever again. What I witnessed in another human being is there in me, available. I am infected” (Rathbone). This statement helped her begin to tell the tale of how she lost Daniel and beginning of her