Brokeback Mountain

This read was about two young guys, Jack and Ennis. They met at this mountain where they were to look after the sheep of a herder for a summer. During this time they both became very close.

One night after being together for so long, they became intimate with each other. From that day on they continued to have an intimate relationship. When it was at the end of the summer, they both parted their separate ways. They both got married and had children.

After four years they reunited and from the time that they seen each other, they were all over each other. Ennis' wife Alma saw that them kissing and all over each other. This cause her suspicions to rise.

After this reuniting, they continued to see each other throughout the years. Both of them really wanted to be with each other but they couldn't because of the treatment they would get, or even death.

Ennis was really afraid of getting caught because of the stories that he had heard about gays and how he had seen a gay couple treated in his surrounding area. He witnessed the brutal murder of one of the gays that lived around him.

Ennis had called jack one day, after he hadn't heard from him and discovered that Jack had been in an accident. He had died and was cremated.

Ennis went to Jack's parent's house to get his ashes so that he could spread them on Brokeback Mountain as he had requested his wife to do but his parents wouldn't let him have the ashes. Ennis also discovered that Jack's "accident" maybe wasn't that at all. In reality someone had discovered he was a homosexual and killed him.

This reading had a sad ending. Because of the morals and teachings of the world, Jack and Ennis were not able to be together. All Ennis had was the memories.

I have witnessed many people who couldn't be with who they wanted to be with because of the morals that their families held or just the simple fact they weren't ready to be out in the open about their sexuality.