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Modern American Literature: Rise of Realism

Choose one of the stories to apply feminist criticism to the readin The story that we read in class is called “mystery of heroism” by Stephen Crane,and were the story takes place is on a battle field,and there is one main character named collins and he is the middle of the battle,and the one thing in the story that is the most intrusting is when collins is in the middle of the battle field and he says that hes thursty but really hes doing it to prove a point so he ask the chaptain if he g. 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”**

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”**

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 class today we read a story called “The invalids story” and its about a man who is the person telling the story, and how he is on a train taking his best friends body to wisconsony,and while he is on the train we meets a guy named tommas and the go this long trip together. While they are on the train they start to smell something like mold,they think it’s the body,but what they don’t know is that theres some old chesse on the train and that’s what they are smelling,well time goes on and and the smell gets worse so they try things to make the smell go away but it just makes it worse. The narrator in the story says a quote that saids cur’us they aint nobdy can get around it allis got to go just everybody as you may say now from this txt I can verify that he is low class by the way he talks.but in the stoy is id tells him to get rid of the smell but is superego tells him to stay by is friend even thou he smells,and last his ego tells him to use perfume to cover the smell so he can stay by his friend.