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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”**

In Gilman’s “Yellow Wallpaper”, The theme of this story is when human beings control others we lose our sense of selves. In this story Jane is our main character she is the person that we follow. She is treated like a child by her husband. She was not able to make decisions for herself. The wall paper symbolizes her being locked in and patriarchy where in a setting a man has all control. Jane and Jennie bring out each other’s strengths; Jane wants to write and wants her writing to be read Jennie wants to fulfill her dream as a housekeeper. Jennie was always creeping around the house Jane knew she was watching her.

Jane is a round character; she shows us more than one side. She shows us when she is happy, sad, confused, and insane. When she sees the woman in the wall, she wants to help the woman out. Jane shows us that she is insane. Jane is happy when she realizes that she will no longer be controlled by her husband. Jane is a dynamic character she changes throughout the story. The beginning of the story Jane stays depressed and lonely. She is not able to visit no one because her husband feels like it would be too much. At the end of the story she realized she had no control and felt like she needed to gain it back. She felt like in order for her to gain it she had to go insane. In order to gain your own sense of control you have to stand up for yourself. You need to make yourself become noticed you need to be independent. A man will become weak when he sees a woman he loves dearly become strong.

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”**

kw In Mystery of Heroism by Stephen Crane a war is going on between the north and the south. All that lies between them is the used to be beautiful green meadow and opportunity. This horrible battle had made this beautiful meadow the object of red hate. In this story our protagonist fred collins indures a life risking situation to statisfy his thirst by stepping in enemy lines.

Psychoanalytic Critism analyzes actions of literary characters personalities, intelligence, and works as a whole. The structural models include the id, ego, and the super ego. In this story fred collins id was his thirst he wanted it and he wanted It now. Fred had allowed his mind to manoeuvre his body into such a situation. He ran pass the men. If he wouldn’t of stopped he would have been shot. Fred Collins ego was when he dumped the water over the man and his face. Fred Collins stopped for the dying lueteinant to give him a drink of water. The mood is the atmosphere created by literary work of movement. The war was fearful, life threatening, and set in a lot of anxiety. Fred collins explained that in the air was an odour as from a conflagration. A conflagration is a big explosion. He could hear a sound of some stupendous cuffle, as if two animals of the size of islands were fighting. After the flare, the smoke, the dust, the wrath of this blow were gone. It was possible to see white lugs stretched horizontally upon the ground. Men should feel afraid of certain things, and that all men who did not feel his fear were phenomena –heroes. A hero to me is when some one idols you, you show no fear, and you can believe in yourself and others. I feel that fred collins is a hero because he risked his life to have what he wanted the most but this also showed his id. Sometimes our own desire is not worth it.

MYSERY OF HEAROISM BY STEVEN CRANE The story is about a man named Fred Collins was a soldier and one of his members got injured in the battle field and so no one tried to help the man. So he thought it would be good and hero like to help the guy out by getting him a bucket of water. So he went out there and when he got to the well he started to think what am I doing here? I just put my life in deaths road for a person but then he thought he needed to get his side so he filled up the bucket and ran like crazy. He stopped half way to give the guy a drink of water. Splashing the water in his face and then ran back up the hill. Sight- This is what he saw, he saw his arm bend like a twig. His head drooped as if his neck were willow. Sound- He was making groans in the teeth of the tempest of sand. Taste- the officer was as a man gone in drink. Smell- in the air was an odor as from a conflagration. Feel- he did not feel some keen agony of fear cutting his senses like a knife. The mood is that it was frightening because he was scared when he got to the will because he thought he was going to die for one of his team mates. And exciting because he was trying to do some good and try to be a hero and help his comrade. Bravery because he put his life on deaths road to help someone that had nothing to do with him. His id wanted to help the dyeing man and run to where it’s safe. He wanted to help the man because he was dying a slow and painful death and that he looked dehydrated. He wanted to run to where it was safe so that he wouldn’t die. Desire for instant release to make sure he knew he was ok and he had enough water His ego wanted to dump the water on the dying man to help him out and he wanted to take off. So that he wouldn’t get hurt. His super ego wanted to help the dying man even if it meant dying himself. He didn’t want to leave a man behind. He wanted to help him with all his power. He knew it was right for him to go get the drink for his member. But it was wrong that he was just splashing in his face and not making much in his mouth. That’s why you should never put your life in deaths road, for no one if you really don’t have too.He was trying to get water in the middle of the war. Even trying to get water for someone is nice but if they look like they are going to die. Just let them go. Don’t risk your life for another.

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? APRIL SHOWERS Edith Wharton In the April Showers, all Theodora  id wanted to do is write. Her ego told her to stay home to help her siblings with simple things like sow on buttons. But then she wanted to send her brother to school. Her super ego wanted to take care of her family. The dialect is when her mother said “No matter, dear. I suppose Johnny's buttons kept you. I can't think what that boy does to his clothes!" or when her father said “Don't walk so fast, child. You look tired." She sent her novel into the publisher into home circle. They sent her a letter saying that they will put it in the midsummer number. When she got her news paper she saw her title but not her story or name. The Invalid’s Story Mark Twain His id wanted to get rid of the stinky smell out of the train. His ego wanted to get rid of the smell but also stay with his friend to take him to Wisconsin, and to survive he burnt things and stuck his head out the window. His super ego wanted to stay with his friends body to take him to Wisconsin. His friend dies and he was taking him to Wisconsin and it stinks and he thinks its his friend and its really cheese so he tries to burning things to relieved the smell and when it got hot in the car the smell got so bad he had to stick his head out the window. When they got there he went outside and he stayed outside to long and he got sick, and he never got better so two years later he died.
 * Wharton’s “April Showers” and Twain’s “The Invalid’s Story”**