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Modern American Literature: Rise of Realism

She sat on the floor in the dark. Everyone pretended would be okay, but she knew they were tired of the little girl. She heard their gossip how she changed in to a devil child, and may send her away. She didn’t know what they called the pace but she did want to find out. Even though she was not accepted, she rather not be alone. No matter who you are we all have problems whether it b e family and friends, ourselves m or something we have on control over. We learn to except it. Even if they never change.
 * by S. Green**

In the story the //Yellow Wall Paper,// written by charlotte Perkins Gillman, Jane the main character protagonist. Jane’s id is determined to get well. Jane’s ego wants to obey her husband she stays in her room day-night.so Jane’s superego tolerates the way her husband treats her and pretends he is a doctor he knows what best, and he only does it because he loves her.

Jane is a dynamic character because we see her go though a tremendous transformation. She experiences a change of view of the Yellow Wall paper at first she hated every thing about it, the color, texture, and the print. Eventually she became interested. Like an odd peace of art work.” Be hind the pattern the dim shapes got clearer every day.” She begins to analyze the paper, and see things through the wall. “There are things in that paper that body knows but me, or ever will.” She began to see a woman in t the wall. “And it is like a woman stooping down and creeping about behind the pattern. I don’t like it a bit. I wonder—I begin to think—I wish John would take me away from here!” she saw the as wall a barrier so the woman couldn’t escape. Over time she would see the women looking at her throw the window and creeping around on the floor. She deiced to help the woman escape. To find out the woman was her. Jane and every one thought she would be better off alone in the room. She did show sings of improvement but she the wall paper made her go insane. She tried to get better but only got worse.

Our author uses dialect to give u san idea of the time era and sets tone of the story. Often Jane’s husband calls her “My dear” or he said “what is it, little girl?” her husband Is respectful and polite because she is a girl. This symbolizes how fragile woman are and need to be protected to the society. Even thou Jane didn’t like the way he spoke to her she found he was just being polite. Society views woman a certain way. And she has no control of what societies view.

There is a lot of imagery in the story especially the way Jane see the wall paper. She talks about the way it looked and her husband control over her “He said I was his darling ad his comfort and all he had, and that must take care of myself for his sake. And keep well.”

Good job so far, Shim! I'm so glad we caught that the question was supposed to deal with id, ego, and superego. You've done an awesome job of incorporating it into the essay. And into your thesis. The only comment I have on that part is to look and find examples of each of them. You do such a good job using examples from the story, so keep it up. Even think if there's a way to tie in the id, ego, and super ego, into your main points. Can the dialect reflect her lack of change and her superego. Just go a step further and tie each into one of your main paragraphs. Things will begin to flow easier and your essay will really take shape.
 * Response**:

I know you've got more to write, so keep it up. I'm excited to see what else you have. -Autumn

Mystery of Heroism M. Lee Bullets flying past his face, bombs exploding in front of him, he breathes harder as he runs farther onto the field. Next thing a thud, battle fields have always been terrifying especially in the civil war. In the story “Mystery of heroism” by Steven crane, the protagonist of the story is Fred Collins, and his motivation to run out onto the battle field just to get a drink of water might cost his life. Collins had to decide between giving a drink of water to a dying man or drink it for himself. Fred Collins is the protagonist of the story because he wants to become a hero and the plot follows Fred Collins, Collins says: Thunder I wisht I had a drink. Is there any water around here at all? “Then, somebody in the yonder yelled: “there goes th’ bugler!” Some soldiers joked about Collins thirst, one of the soldiers said “well, if he wants a drink so bad, why don’t yeh go git it? Next thing Collins grabbed one of the canteens, and unfastened the cap, swung the cord down into the water. The water went languidly into the canteens. Imagery is used in this story to describe the setting, characters and the battle field in vivid detail. The dark uniforms of the men were coated with dust from the continuous fighting of the two armies; the regiments almost seemed a part of clay bank which shielded them from shells. A shell had struck the grey ruins of the house and after the roar, the shattered wall fell in fragments, there had been a noise that resembled the whistling winds in the winter. There was a artillery officer who had fallen in the meadow that had been making groans in the teeth of the tempest of sound. The futile cries, wrenched by the agony, were only heard by shells, and bullets. When Collin ran by this officer raised himself, his face was contorted and blanched from pain, he was about to utter some great beseeching cry. As Collins is running through the field he has to make the internal struggle to continue on or to help the dying man and give him a drink. If so he does give the man a drink he is not fulfilling his obligations toward the lieutenant. In this story people are from the south, because they use words like ol which they are implying old. This story takes place in about the 1860s cause they tell you that the mother is asking her son Collin to do chores and next thing he is in the army which means he is young which means he 18. In the story when the two soldiers are mooching Collins, he said “well I will in a minnet, if yeh don’t shut up!” Dialect is also used in this story when the captain “says, he must be a desperate cuss.” The word “cuss” means guy this is a form of dialect. Another example is when Collins says “I dunno wether ‘tis”. The story “Mystery of heroism” is about a man named Fred Collins, who is so thirsty he wants a drink and is willing to run onto the other side of the field to a well. Fred Collins is faced in a hard decision, drink V.S death; Fred Collins has a thirst for the worst. Fred Collins is striding down the battle field ducking and weaving Collins is an army of one he is on a mission for successes. Hey Shim, I really like your introduction here, the writing is good and you're doing a great job of not spending too much time on it so that it takes away from your main points. It's a great hook for your reader. In your next paragraph you talk a little bit about why Collins is the protagonist. The quote you use from the story doesn't completely fit. It's almost there. But, I like that you're searching out these quotes. When you begin to talk about imagery, you do a really nice job of setting it up for the reader. You even begin to touch on the internal struggle between good and evil with it. Talk more about that! You set it up so nicely. So keep going with it. As far as your last part, you do a really nice job of finding quotes that deal and explain dialect. Just go a little further with it. Explain what the means to the story. This version is a lot better, Shim. It's so cool to see how your writing is getting so much better. I look forward to reading more. -Autumn
 * Response**

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. The story of the “yellow Wallpaper” is a patriarchy on people in empty house that is supposable haunted. The protagonist of this story is the narrator of this story and her name is Jane. The antagonist of this story is John because he is described in this story in very vivid detail, by the narrator. I would say that the protagonist is a round character of the story because she is described in the story very well they tell us that she might be sick and her name and as well as her husband. Example of her being antagonist is when she says “you see he does not believe I am sick” so from right there she is telling us that she is ill in the story. She is somewhat convinced that the house is haunted because she is wondering why they would lease the house for so cheap. Also the wallpaper made her crazy.
 * Chopin’s “Story of and Hour” and Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper”**

Hey Shim, I know in class we talked about the possibility of the house being the protagonist. That kind of thinking is awesome and creative. I think you should have stuck with that sort of thinking. But you’re right, Jane can also be the protagonist. And her husband is very much the antagonist. I liked when you talked about the patriarchy, could you maybe go into more detail? Dig a little deeper with that thought and expand on it. The ending is a little confusing to me. You’ve talked about how John was the antagonist. And yet, you’re giving the reader examples of how Jane could be the antagonist instead. But, you’ve got a good start, and I think if you were just to expand on things a little more, it would begin to take shape. I know one thing that helps me is to layout all the parts of the questions and begin to answer them. Then, move into forming paragraphs. Maybe something like that will make it easier for you. -Autumn
 * Response ** :

I think you are trying to create a distinction between Jane and John, by foiling the two; Jane is the protagonist, John is then the antagonist. I think your vocabulary choice of “patriarchy” really strengthens your argument. It allows for a very specific concrete sentence; these types of sentences are necessary for your argument. It’s a good start for being a lawyer. I’m curious as to why you thought John not believing that Jane is sick makes him the antagonist? Is he the only character that does not believe her? Are there any other reasons why you felt he is the antagonist? As for Jane, what about her being described “very well” makes her round? Are there specific lines in the text that show her being described “very well,” are there lines that made you think she is round? I wondered why you included your last two sentences. I think both of those ideas are very important to the story, but I was wondering why you think they were important enough to include. Do you feel the idea in either of those sentences strengthen your answers about protagonist/antagonist, or round/flat character, or static/dynamic character? If so, perhaps you could tie those ideas into your other answers. I don’t know exactly what you discussed in class, but I was wondering if you had to answer all of the questions? It didn’t seem like you addressed static/dynamic characters, or how the foil relates to the theme. If you did address these, I’m sorry I didn’t notice, so perhaps try to clarify what your answer to each question is. And I know you said you don’t really like grammar, but I would suggest proofreading out loud your answers. Sometimes, spell check doesn’t catch everything. You wrote: “Example of her being antagonist…” I know that you meant “him” instead of “her” so it’s okay, but proof reading out loud might help you catch little things like that.

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”**

As he makes his way acorss the valley, his confecnec and adrinaline starts to fade He comes into realization that his act of self pride is stupidly dangerouos. The "Mystery of Heroism" is a story that really difines herosim. Not our raegular Spiderman. But the ture form of herosim. "Mystery of Herosim" writen by Steven Crane demonstarates a soilders experiance in war, and experiance of war and compassion. The mood of the story of startes with the

Hey, So it looks like you didn't get a chance to finish the assignment, I don't know how class went, so I hope it's okay. But working off of what you do have, I really liked where you were going in the beginning. You do a good job of setting up the story for your reader. I'd be curious to see what example of imagery you would have picked to describe the mood of the story. And from there, how you would have commented on the id, ego, and superego.
 * Response:**

I have a few questions for you: what led you to believe in the story that the main character felt stupid? How does the story define heroism? How do you define heroism? Do you think it's a different definition for everyone? Is heroism playing into the characters subconscious (i.e. id, ego, superego)?

Something that I've found helpful when I'm writing, is getting the root of the question down on paper before I add anymore details. It helps me to focus on the question and then making it sound awesome after. I think this may help you out too. You'll be able to spend the most time answering the question.

I feel like you have an awesome start to the question here.

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”**

The invalid story is a story about a man who promised his friend who is dead that he would take his body to his home town for him. The other half of the story is that there is an express man who had some cheese in a crate and some how they got mixed up and so the Invalid thought he had his friend’s body and the express man thought he had a box of cheese and they were both wrong. The whole time throughout this story they had the wrong boxes; the invalid had the box that was supposed to have the body in it next to the ferniest and the other, and the box that was supposed to have the body and so the chess had started to melt in the box that was supposed to have the body in it so it started to smell a horrible stitch, what was the cheese. This is what the Invalid’s id was he wanted to get his request done. His ego is he wanted to overpower the stink. And the superego is that he takes his friends body. This other story is called “April Showers” which is about this girl who want to become a writer and her parent don’t really approve of that. But her whole thing of writing is to get her book so she can give her family the money so that her little brother can get into a better school. The id is she wants to become a writer; the ego is to take care of her family because her mom is sick and she is the oldest kid in her family. The superego is she wrote to give money to her family, and the thing the thing that motivated her was how her life was like her dad didn’t want her to become a writer and all the books she read by other authors but if her life wasn’t bad she would of never became a writer.

So, it looks like you did a lot of summary throughout. Was that something your teacher was looking for? If it is, you do a nice job of comparing it to how a psychologist would read it. But I think you should instead concentrate on how and why the id, ego, and superego are important to the story. You clearly have a firm grasp of what’s happening in each story, but I want to know why you’re thinking the way you are. Why do the id, ego, and superego work in the character these ways? What gives you this idea? Pick out from the text and use the examples you find in there. It might help you to read through what the id, ego, and superego are. Then go from there. How does each affect the main character throughout. Once you have that down, things will become a lot easier! Good job of answering the question, though Shim. Your writing is getting better and better. -Autumn
 * Response ** :

The invalid story is a story about a man who promised his friend who is dead that he would take his body to his home town for him. The other half of the story is that there is an express man who had some cheese in a crate and some how they got mixed up and so the Invalid thought he had his friend’s body and the express man thought he had a box of cheese and they were both wrong. The whole time throughout this story they had the wrong boxes; the invalid had the box that was supposed to have the body in it next to the ferniest and the other, and the box that was supposed to have the body and so the chess had started to melt in the box that was supposed to have the body in it so it started to smell a horrible stitch, what was the cheese. This is what the Invalid’s id was he wanted to get his request done. **Where is this shown in the story? Once again, and I promise it will never go away, you might want to provide a quote from the text. What passage/passages made you think: “This is the id.”**His ego is he wanted to overpower the stink. **Show a quote to support this sentence.** And the superego is that he takes his friends body. **Is this what the superego is, or is this the “influence” of the superego? The question is two parts because you have to know what the id, ego, and superego are to know how the character is then influenced by them. Your answer for id/ego are good examples of incorporating both parts.** This other story is called “April Showers” which is about this girl who want to become a writer and her parent don’t really approve of that. But her whole thing of writing is to get her book so she can give her family the money so that her little brother can get into a better school. The id is she wants to become a writer **So how is she influenced by this? What does she do because of this?**; the ego is to take care of her family because her mom is sick and she is the oldest kid in her family **This is what she does because of the ego, but what is the actual ego then?**. The superego is she wrote to give money to her family, and the thing the thing that motivated her was how her life was like her dad didn’t want her to become a writer and all the books she read by other authors but if her life wasn’t bad she would of never became a writer. **Good job of answering both parts of the question here.**

Damian, the first half of your response to Twain’s story, and the first half of your response to Wharton’s story, seem to just be summary. You are just writing your personal interpretation of the story. What I mean by your “personal” interpretation is that you, as Damian, read the story as you as Damian. In the second half of your responses to each story you answer the question as someone who practices psycho-analysis. This is really good. You have created a foil here, between how you read the story and how someone such as Freud would read this story. This is what your class is aimed to do: to a read a story not as yourself, but in a set way, such as feminist, or, in this case, psycho-analytic critic would! You are starting to grasp a very key idea in your class. Although the summary you provide allowed me to see such a wonderful foil, it is something I do not understand. Perhaps you talked about it in class, but I don’t really see in the question where it asks you to summarize the story. Also then, I didn’t even notice the word dialect come up in your response. Is dialect a term you know? Is this why you summarized instead? If you do not know the term, it’s okay, you should just make sure to look it up. And if you do know the term, then I am curious as to why you left out that portion of the question? If I said, “The Bobcats are the best team in the NBA,” would you believe me? Probably not because it’s The Bobcats right? Do I provide any proof of why, or how? Now, if I said “The Bobcats are the best team in the NBA because Larry Brown is a legend coach, because they just acquired Tyrus Thomas, and because Raymond Felton is on fire,” would you believe me more? You don’t have to agree, but do you at least understand my reasoning more? This is the benefit of using quotes from the text. Without a quote you are just asking me to believe you. With a quote, you are telling me why I should believe you. With a quote, you are writing “this is my point because of this line in the text.”