i read the article simply for the title ” Criminal Masterminds.”in it the author describes her life story and the difficulties she had growing up ad the only girl in her family and being on of very few Jews in her town. she moved from Kansas to Chicago when she was a girl and has been writing stories and novels ever since. as a child since she was the only girl in her family she was rid of her dolls and toys at the age of 9 and was required to tend to her brothers. she also wasn’t allowed to just sit inside and write she had to go outside and socialize. she said that her purpose in writing is to tell the stories of those she knew or met so that they wouldn’t be forgotten.

i love two things about the style of this piece. First the title, even though i don’t really get how it related to the piece i think it does a good job of catching the interest of anyone that happens to be skimming along the page . the second thing in her piece that i like is the analogy that she makes between giraffes and the small Jewish population in the town she lived in. she said that they were ” an oddity that invited starring,” and she better not do anything to make ashame them or offend their little group. i agree with her and like this analogy because giraffes are so awkward to look at they don’t really blend in just like their group must have stuck out.