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Bobbing and weaving through the open fires of the burning building. He runs as fast as he can. The fire looks as if it was following him. He got closer and closer to the door and suddenly heard a screech over the crackling sound of the fire. He thought for a second and sprinted back. What a decision. Well in the story //__Mystery of Heroism__// by Stephen Crane, Fred Collins has to make a decision about doing something dangerous and uses the influences around him and his personality to help. In this story the thirsty protagonist, Fred Collins is faced with a decision that could mean life or death. During the middle of a war he gets parched and is craving water bad. Crane writes, “Fred Collins, of A Company, was saying: “Thunder, I wisht I had a drink. Aint there any water round here?”” With his id telling him to just stomp fiercely over there and get all the water he needs and his superego telling him to just sit back, relax and you can get water later he needed to balance this all out and come up with a solution. He is helped with the influence of a partner telling him he can’t do it and Collins wants to prove him wrong. Crane writes: Well, I will in a minnet, if yeh don’t shut up!” This was a big influence from his partner. Again Crane writes, “Collins said, in a terrible voice: “You see now!”” This is his final influence from teammates, and he was a little scared, telling him they do not think he can do it. He decides that he is going to even thought scared, Collins is a soldier and no soldier wants to be called a wimp. “I wisht I had a drink. I bet there’s water in that ol’ well younder!” Crane writes. This is a form of dialect. Said in America today, it would probably look like, “t wish I had a drink. I bet there is water in that old well way out there.” As you can see there is not a huge difference but it is noticeable. Another example would be as Crane writes, “of course, yeh will! You’ll run through that there medder, wont yeh?” Said now, it would read, “Of course, you will! You’ll run through the meadow wont you?” Again not much, but noticeable. This type of dialect strengthens the reading by making the reader have to sound like they would have and getting the reader involved more, thus strengthening the mood also. Fred Collins shows multiple parts of his personality to the world in this story. He is desperate, scared, generous, proud, and disappointed. From the start he was a desperate soldier wanting to quench his thirst with some water from an old well. Finally going for it, it is and ominous trip which is what scared him. On the way back to his team he encounters a wounded man and is generous enough to give him some of the water. Getting back to the team he is very proud of himself for risking his life to get water and making it back showing of his toughness. For some reason there is always a downfall – because every good story has to have a dropping point. As everybody went to get their drink they see that the bucket had been empty. Collins had wasted all of the water on that weak man on his journey. What a disappointment. He had done all that work just to come back empty-handed. Look at the bright side, he had made it back in one piece and even showed those fools who was a man. Crane writes, “From beyond a curtain of green woods there came the sound of some stupendous scuffle, as if two animals of the size of islands were fighting. At a distance there were occasional appearances of swift- moving men, horses, batteries, flags, and, with the crashing of infantry volleys were heard, often, wild and frenzied cheers. In the midst of it all Smith and Ferguson, two privates of A Company, were engaged in a heated discussion, which involved the greatest questions of the national existence.” Every piece of this could b imagined, from the sounds to the sight, which means there was wonderful imagery here. There are plenty more for example when Cranes writes, “From the forest of terrific noises there suddenly emerged a little uneven line of men. They fired fiercely and rapidly at distant foliage on which appeared little puffs of white smoke. The spatter of skirmish firing was added to the thunder of the guns on the hill. The little line of men ran forward. A colour-sergeant fell flat with his flag as if he had slipped on ice. There was hoarse cheering from this distant field.” So in truth we all have that devil and angel, or as said, id and superego, on each shoulder telling us what to do and it is up to us, or the ego, to balance them out and do the right thing. Everybody is faced with decisions everyday and goes through a thought process so fast that it is not catchable. Before, the man in the fire heard the scream and without even knowing it he thought about leaving the person behind and trying to stay with them. Balancing it all out he decided to save her. Quick and gutsy thinking.

Bobbing and weaving through the open fires of the burning building. He runs as fast as he can. [Try to combine these first two sentences] The fire looks as if it was following him. He got closer and closer to the door and suddenly heard a screech over the crackling sound of the fire. He thought for a second and sprinted back. What a decision. Well in the story //__Mystery of Heroism__// by Stephen Crane, Fred Collins has to make a decision about doing something dangerous and uses the influences around him and his personality to help. In this story the thirsty protagonist, Fred Collins is faced with a decision that could mean life or death. During the middle of a war he gets parched and is craving water bad. Crane writes, “Fred Collins, of A Company, was saying: “Thunder, I wisht I had a drink. Aint there any water round here?”” With his id telling him to just stomp fiercely over there and get all the water he needs and his superego telling him to just sit back, relax and you can get water later he needed to balance this all out and come up with a solution. He is helped with the influence of a partner telling him he can’t do it and Collins wants to prove him wrong. Crane writes: Well, I will in a minnet, if yeh don’t shut up!” This was a big influence from his partner. Again Crane writes, “Collins said, in a terrible voice: “You see now!”” This is his final influence from teammates, and he was a little scared, telling him they do not think he can do it. He decides that he is going to even thought scared, Collins is a soldier and no soldier wants to be called a wimp .[Which ego influences his decision?] “I wisht I had a drink. I bet there’s water in that ol’ well younder!” Crane writes. This is a form of dialect. Said in America today, it would probably look like, “t wish I had a drink. I bet there is water in that old well way out there.” [ Is that really how you would say this sentence today?] As you can see there is not a huge difference but it is noticeable. Another example would be as Crane writes, “of course, yeh will! You’ll run through that there medder, wont yeh?” Said now, it would read, “Of course, you will! You’ll run through the meadow wont you?” Again not much, but noticeable. This type of dialect strengthens the reading by making the reader have to sound like they would have [who would have?] and getting the reader involved more, thus strengthening the mood also. [How so? Try to add a sentence explaining how dialect affects mood] Fred Collins shows multiple parts of his personality to the world in this story. He is desperate, scared, generous, proud, and disappointed. From the start he was a desperate soldier wanting to quench his thirst with some water from an old well. Finally going for it, it is and ominous trip which is what scared him. On the way back to his team he encounters a wounded man and is generous enough to give him some of the water. Getting back to the team he is very proud of himself for risking his life to get water and making it back showing of his toughness. For some reason there is always a downfall – because every good story has to have a dropping point. [You really strengthened this since last time. Good job!] As everybody went to get their drink they see that the bucket had been empty. Collins had wasted all of the water on that weak man on his journey. What a disappointment. He had done all that work just to come back empty-handed. Look at the bright side, he had made it back in one piece and even showed those fools who was a man. Crane writes, “From beyond a curtain of green woods there came the sound of some stupendous scuffle, as if two animals of the size of islands were fighting. At a distance there were occasional appearances of swift- moving men, horses, batteries, flags, and, with the crashing of infantry volleys were heard, often, wild and frenzied cheers. [Should this be in quotes? Was it a direct line from the story? ]In the midst of it all Smith and Ferguson, two privates of A Company, were engaged in a heated discussion, which involved the greatest questions of the national existence.” Every piece of this could b imagined, from the sounds to the sight, which means there was wonderful imagery here. There are plenty more for example when Cranes writes, “From the forest of terrific noises there suddenly emerged a little uneven line of men. They fired fiercely and rapidly at distant foliage on which appeared little puffs of white smoke. The spatter of skirmish firing was added to the thunder of the guns on the hill. The little line of men ran forward. A colour-sergeant fell flat with his flag as if he had slipped on ice. There was hoarse cheering from this distant field.” So in truth we all have that devil and angel, or as said, id and superego, on each shoulder telling us what to do and it is up to us, or the ego, to balance them out and do the right thing. Everybody is faced with decisions everyday and goes through a thought process so fast that it is not catchable. Before, the man in the fire heard the scream and without even knowing it he thought about leaving the person behind and trying to stay with them. Balancing it all out he decided to save her. Quick and gutsy thinking.

Jahzel, I can tell you have strengthened this since the last time I read it, so good work there! I think it would help if you connected your textual evidence to your main points a little more. For example, how does the excellent imagery you describe help create mood in the story? I still really like your intro, and I think starting a new paragraph and saying "before" when you restart the story in the conclusion makes it much more clear.

Modern American Literature: Rise of Realism

Choose one of the stories to apply feminist criticism to the reading. Identify the protagonist and antagonist and describe their relationship as it relates to the theme. How does the relationship to the foil, if there is one, reflect the theme? Identify whether the protagonist is round or flat, dynamic or static. Support your response with examples from the text.
 * Chopin’s “Story of and Hour” and Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper”**

__“The Yellow Wallpaper”__ The story //The Yellow Wallpaper//, by Charlotte Perkins Gillman, was very interesting. The theme was very strong and the foil of the literature really helped me understand it. In the beginning of the story Jane was a loving wife that would do anything for her husband, John, and was pretty much tied down with no kind of freedom. John was the more masculine one and Jane was the feminine one. Jane had loved the outdoors and flowers and loved the green scenery around the institution. By the end of the book she had a totally different mindset. She hated the green scenery outdoors and didn’t want to be outside. She wasn’t interested in her husband at all and didn’t care for what he wanted and was crazy. John did something feminine and fainted and Jane creeped over him to show her masculinity. They had switch gender roles. Jane is the protaganist in this story. She was a very ROUND character. You seen the happy side of her like when she said, “There is a delicious garden!”, The angry side for example when she said, “I unreasonably angry with John sometimes”, and much others. She is also Dynamic going from feminine to masculine and from just having a little disorder to going crazy.

Select an example of imagery that creates the mood of the story? How does the mood of the setting reflect the character’s motivations driven by their id, ego, and superego?
 * Crane’s “Mystery of Heroism”**

** __Mystery of Heroism__ ** Stephen Crane’s, Mystery of Heroism, was very good and introducing mood, tone, id, ego, and superego. The best part about it was the imagery though. All of these things put together created the characters and the setting very nicley. Mainly about the war, a man desperate for water faces his ego, super ego, and his id. The mood of the story was very horrid, violent, and suspenseful. The mai character, Fred Collins, wanted water and he wanted it now. He had probably been there fighting for months and hadn’t probably had much water. His id, the pleasure principle, was saying, “walk over there and get your water and don’t listen to these fools.” His Super ego, the moral of right and wrong, was telling him, “You don’t need water so sit here and don’t die.” To balance things out was his ego that said, “Okay now, run as fast as you can to that well and run even faster back and you should be okay.” He listened to his ego, or conscious, and did what it said. He made it back but without water. The imagery was magnificant in this story. There were things appealing to all of my senses, sight, sound, smell, and feel. I couldn’t find anything for taste though. From Cranes story, Crane writes, “And there was a massacre of the young blades of grass. They were being torn, burned, and obliterated.” This was great for sight. For sound, Crane writes, “sound of stupendous scuffle, as if two animals the size of islands fighting. For smell, Crane writes, “In the air was an odour as from a conflagration. And for feel, Crane writes, “Holding his right arm carefully in his left hand. And it was as if this arm was not at all part of him, but belonged to another man. As you can see, Crane’s Mystery of Heroism was really good in imagery and if you read this you could probably imagine every single thing going on in the story.

How does the author indirectly characterize the protagonist through the use of dialect? What does this tell us about the character? How are they influenced by their id, ego, or superego?
 * Wharton’s “April Showers” and Twain’s “The Invalid’s Story”**

In Whorton’s “April Showers” and Twain’s “The Invalid’s Story” there were a lot of examples of id, ego, superego, and dialect. Id as in the pleasure principle, superego as in what wants whats right and wrong, and ego, the main man, the one who balances out the two. Theodora in April Showers was a wonderful writer but had other obligations towards her family ** [So would you say that she is acting on the part of her Id, or superego, or just ego? What about her personality and her actions lead you to this?]. ** Blank from The Invalid’s Story was so disgusted by the bad smell he wanted to jump off the train but he needed to stay on. In Edith Whorton’s April Showers, Theodora only wanted to write but her mom wasn’t in the right shape to take care of the family so she had to pass it down to her eldest daughter which happened to be Theodora. In order to do what she loved and take care of her family she just wrote in her spare time. [Can you bring in the reading here? Give the reader a passage that shows Theodora's conflict between writing her story and taking care of her family. ] As she got closer to the end of the book she came to a conclusion that she would try to publish it, get money for it and with that money help her family and send her little brother off to a better school [Does her personality change by the end of the story?]. This was her ego talking [ ** Can you show a specific spot in the story where her ego, superego, and id are playing a role in her actions? How can you tell the difference? Are there any places where one of the three egos really shows?]. ** In Mark Twain’s The Invalid’s Story, the narrator was helping travel a thought to be dead body to a different state. As he got closer and closer to his destination the smell got more and more unbarable untill finally he just wanted to jump off the train but he had to stay on for the whole trip [ ** Right here would be a good place to show the story. Can you find a passage from the story that shows the main character’s internal fight with wanting to jump off, yet also obligated to take the coffin the rest of the way? Which of the three personalities is he showing in this part of the story? ** ] . He finally got an idea to try and modify [**Which personality trait is he showing when he tries to modify the smell?]** the smell with other smells like carbolic acid and cigars. These things never worked and they actually were making the smell worse. Doing all this passed time. Finally the trip was over. The crate ended up being filled with guns topped off with Limburger cheese. ** [I think that you’ve gotten the three personality traits down pretty well, but sometimes, you need to bring in a piece from the story to back up your argument, even if it’s just a sentence. That will make your argument much stronger. Great job!] **

Hey Jahzel, sorry I was posting this in the wrong spot. I'll make sure to put it on this page from now on.

In Whorton’s “April Showers” and Twain’s “The Invalid’s Story” there were a lot of examples of id, ego, superego, and dialect. Id as in the pleasure principle, superego as in what wants whats right and wrong, and ego, the main man, the one who balances out the two. Theodora in April Showers was a wonderful writer but had other obligations towards her family. Blank from The Invalid’s Story was so disgusted by the bad smell he wanted to jump off the train but he needed to stay on. [ How does this relate to id, ego, superego? What does it say about the narrator's character?] In Edith Whorton’s April Showers, Theodora only wanted to write but her mom wasn’t in the right shape to take care of the family so she had to pass it down to her eldest daughter which happened to be Theodora. In order to do what she loved and take care of her family she just wrote in her spare time. As she got closer to the end of the book she came to a conclusion that she would try to publish it, get money for it and with that money help her family and send her little brother off to a better school. This was her ego talking. [What does this say about her character? Why didn't she let her id take control?] In Mark Twain’s The Invalid’s Story, the narrator was helping travel a thought to be dead body to a different state. As he got closer and closer to his destination the smell got more and more unbarable untill finally he just wanted to jump off the train but he had to stay on for the whole trip. He finally got an idea to try and modify the smell with other smells like carbolic acid and cigars. These things never worked and they actually were making the smell worse. [Which ego is he acting on here? Does he struggle between any of the egos?] Doing all this passed time. Finally the trip was over. The crate ended up being filled with guns topped off with Limburger cheese. [Does the ending say anything about the narrator's character? Does his struggle seem worthwhile?]

Good job explaining the meanings of id, ego, and superego! You really seem to have the terms down.