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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 story of "The yellow wallpaper" is a good peice of writing to compare to feminist crtitism. A big theme in the story is women can feel trapped because they arent allowed to express themselves how they should. At least in that time era. the main charecter or protagonist is jane. She is the wife of John and she just had a baby and is going through a slight depression. John only makes it worse my putting her in the room with the yellow wallpaper, wich is the antagonist. in the story the wallpaper is slowly driving jane crazy with the weird designs it has and it doesnt help that she is not allowed to leave the room. the wallpaper compaired to feminist crtitism symbolises the control society has over women. some women disobey or try and fight against the control and some women agree. An example is john sister jenny, she loves to take care of the house and do wat her husband requests of her, while jane is the complete opposite, she doesnt want to sit in a room all day like her husband john want, she doesnt want to lay down all day to get better, just because she knows thats not what the problem is. jane and jenny are one example of a foil in the story. they do the opposite of one and other to exaggerate their own charecteristics. jane the protagonist is a very dynamic charecter, through out the story she is seen from all diffrent angles she's happy, sad, nervouse, confident. Also she is a round charecter aswell. As the story goes on she changes with time and with the events that take place. while John is a flat charecter he is always acting as if he knows what is best, or as if he is superior. Jenny is a static charecter because she goes against what jane feels. the whole story is about trying to control something because you think you know and wont take the time to really find out.

//You have some great ideas here, and you did a great job of showing me how well you know what these terms mean! I also like the places where you use details from the text to support your ideas :) One thing that I would like to see more work on is your conventions; is your lack of capitalization because you're rushing? are you not using apostrophes because you usually don't when you're posting things on-line? take the time to do a quick spell check, okay?//

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? Essay Imani deleon In Stephen Crane’s “Mystery of Heroism” Fred Collins is forced into a dangerous situation by his inner ego. This can be connected to psychoanalytic criticism. Motivation, mood, and imagery are all closely related when near death. Fred’s near death experience was all because of his thirst for water, the very essence of life. In the story there are many mood changes and more than enough images for the reader. I’m going to focus on one of each and sound, smell, and feelings in the story. When the story starts the author is painting a picture with word as he describes the two armies. //“The dark uniforms of the men were so coated with dust from the incessant wrestling of the two armies that the regiment almost seemed a part of the clay bank witch shielded them from shells.”// Crane continues to write about the sounds of men on the clay bank field, //“Collins, of a company, said:”I wisht I had a drink. I bet there’s water in that there ol’ well yonder”.// Fred is the man saying the above quote, and at that time he was letting his Id get to his mind, which would later cause him to go running down a live battle field. While on the battle field Fred smells the following, “ in the air was an odor as from a conflaguration.” A conflagration Is an explosion wich is a likely smell on a battle field. All the while Fred is on the field his emotions are on high all of his senses are sharper, his sense of touch is described as, “ //he could feel his dulled mid groping after the form and colour of his incident//
 * Crane’s “Mystery of Heroism”**

//Great opening! :) Nice job focusing on the water as a symbol. Beautiful work integrating the definition of imagery into your work. Excellent dialogue tag on your second quote. Ask me about how to write quotes within quotations, please -- oh, and periods inside quotation marks. I'm not seeing with your second quote a description of the sounds of the battlefield -- only dialogue. Nice work applying id to the story.//

//I believe your essay would be much stronger with a solid conclusion. Maybe some preparation before your next essay will help you with the time component. ;)//

//Much better job with your conventions in this work!//

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? Essay Imani Deleon In Mark Twain’s “The invalid story” he has a character named Thompson, who uses a very different type of dialect “Were all right now! I rekon we’ve got the commander this time.” From this quote and the rest of the story you can tell that he’s very funny, more or less educated and that he is very loud. In the story Thomspon and the protagonist are riding in a train cart with what they think is a dead body but really Is a box of guns a some very stinky cheese. The smell is so strong that Thompson can’t handle it, so he comes up with all these plans to try and weaken the smell, and he was wiiling to go through anything to do that. This represents his ID, his super ego is being respectful to the body by not saying mean thins about it, but is trying to get away from the smell. His ego is coming up with all the plans to satisfy his wanting to get away from the smell and do it in a good way. Edith Wharton’s “April showers” Theadora is a writer who has dreams of becoming a huge and famous author. She is always exaggerating her feelings for her writing and everything else, sometimes this exaggeration comes through her dialect “Father o-father!” when she said this on her way back from boston with her father, she was emotional because of a misprint in her story and she was venting her emotions. By her dialect you can tell she is emotional and educated. Her Id causes her to just rush out her house all the way to boston to talk to the printing company. Her superego is always making her take care of her mother and siblings. Her ego allows her to write and take care of all the chores she has with her family.
 * Wharton’s “April Showers” and Twain’s “The Invalid’s Story”**