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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. The yellow wallpaper By Charlotte Perkins Gilman The theme of story of the yellow wallpaper is that the narrator’s husband is dictating her live and she has lost sense of herself. Jane is the narrator and the protagonist. She is a round character because she shows all of her sides of her personality in the writing. She is also a dynamic character because she realizes she is the person behind the wall paper because the wall paper symbolizes a jail that her husband is keeping her in because of patriarchy. Jane’s sister - in- law Jennie are opposites Jennie wants to be a house keeper and Jane wants to be a writer. Jennie doesn’t have to keep house keeping a secret because it isn’t a bad thing but on the other hand Jane is restricted by her husband and she has to keep the thing she likes the best a secret. Jane has to keep the thing she likes a secret because of patriarchy. She thinks she is behind the wallpaper that symbolizes a jail and because of patriarchy she is in jail because her husband is keeping her there.
 * 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? Mystery of Heroism By Stephen Crane In the mystery of heroism by Stephen crane the protagonist is Fred Collins of A company and he keeps talking about going to get some water out of the well that is across the meadow. The only reason he doesn’t go right away to get water is because there is a battle going on between the North and the south during the civil war. The mood of the story is being scared because you don’t want to be in a war and get shoot at or maybe even killed. He saw a red streaming round as a log flashed low in the heavens. He heard a monstrous bolt of lightning from the battery’s going off. On the battle field he smelled the odor of fire. And he felt the power fade from his muscles. Colin’s motivations for his id was telling him to run after he got the water from the well and not to stop and give the dying man a drink that was wounded and was stuck under his horse. But his super-ego got in the way and said go back help that guy give him a drink it’s not right to just pass him up. His ego told him instead of give the guy a drink, he should pour the water on his face so he doesn’t have to slow himself down and can still run away to save his own life. Some of the things that Colin saw, heard and felt that day told him after you get the water run for your life but his ego puts his id in check and he gives a dying man the drink he wanted so I think that would make Fred Collins a hero because he could of kept on running back to the troops but he turned around and risked his own life to give a guy a drink of water.
 * 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 The Store is about a girl Named Theadora and she wants to become a writer but she has to take care of her younger siblings. She decides to write a story and send it in to home circle so then she would win some money to help her family. The dialect in the store says “I suppose you didn’t get home from the ball till morning” Theadora’s dad says this. You can tell he is very well educated and is a caring father. Twain’s the invalid story The narrator is tasked with taking his dead friends body back to Wisconsin to his mother and father. He gets the wrong box which at the time he doesn’t know that it isn’t his friend it’s a box of guns and the cheese is making a smell but he and Thompson think that it’s his friend’s body decomposing. They want to get rid of the body because it is stinking up the train car. But he has to keep the body so he can deliver it back to his parents so they try to smoke cigars and go out on to the platform to get fresh air. Thompson “Yes indeed it’s awful solemn and cur’us but we have all got to go sometime or another there anit no getting around it.” You can tell that Thompson is not highly educated and he is a hard working fellow.
 * Wharton’s “April Showers” and Twain’s “The Invalid’s Story”**