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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”**

The Yellow Wallpaper By Charlotte Perkins Gilman The theme of this story is that when human beings begin to dictate they tend to lose themselves. This story is about a lady named Jane, who is sick with something. While her husband John, who is a physician wants her to get some sleep. When one morning she notices something yellow on the wall and she’s constantly jotting things down in her journal about this yellow stuff on the wall and she’s noticing that there are patches missing on the wall. Then when she goes to the wall to look at it she notices a lady trapped behind the wall, or at least she thinks so. So the yellow stuff starts to get on her clothes from her walking along the wall.

On the last day that she’s at the summer home she locks herself in the room and tosses the key outside so she can figure out who or what’s behind this wall and her husband is wondering why she locked herself in the room.

My conclusion is on Jane because she was striving herself just to find out what was behind the wall.

Mystery of Heroism By Stephen Crane The Mystery of Heroism is about a soldier named Fred Collins, who is currently in the middle of the the Civil War. The war is between the North and the South, and their seperated between this huge meadow and this destroyed barn. And Collins is wanting a drink of water badly, so he sees an old waterwell and wants to go down there but the other soldiers are teasing him. The lieutenant tells him if he wants it so bad why doesn’t he go get it. So he decides to still go the waterwell but he has to take all of the other soldiers’ canteens and fill them up.

If I were him I probably wouldn’t have went to the well knowing that he was on a battlefield. I would’ve felt very frightned and scared. If I saw the dying man and he wanted some water I wouldn’t have pour the water on his face and ran.

His ego was telling him to go and get some water because he was thirsty. His superego was telling him to run for life before he got shot, and it was also telling him to leave the dying man there and go back to base. But it was his superego that was telling him to go back to the dying man and give him his wish because it was the right thing to do.

I think it was right for him to give the man the water because the other soldiers didn’t deserve it for making fun of him. I think he was mad when he gave the man the water, but he probably thought it was the right thing to do.

The Invalid’s Story  By Mark Twain  The Invalid’s story about a man who had came home from a trip has just been informed that his best friend, John B. Hackett had died. His wish was for someone to take his remains to his father and mother’s home in Wisconsin. So went to the train station along with his friend in a white coffin and he already had his friend in the train car so he went inside the diner while he awaited for the train to leave. All of a sudden he saw a man with the same coffin with a card some tacks and a hammer. He rushed out the diner to stop the man but there was his friensd still in the train car. So he and his dead friend were on the way to wisconsin and there was a package of Limburger cheese on the other side of his friends coffin. The scent of Limburger cheese surrounded the train car and some how it got the conductor’s attention and they thought it was his friend that smelled bad. So they tried everything in their power to get rid of the stench. So he end up getting his friend’s dead body to Wisconsin, but three weeks later he had gotten word that it was a box of guns.

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”**