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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. Yellow Wallpaper In the store the Yellow Wallpaper it was a diary that the narratoriary the narrator was sick and nobody knew what she was sick from (I’m guessing depression), her husband John was a de could figure out what was wrong with her and try to fix the problem. But during that time John would be very controlling, treated his wife like a child and did not allow any guest to come over, it was like a patriarchy system. The protagonist in this store is Jane the narrator because she is the main character, and the antagonist is her Husband John because he held her back from doing anything. Jane was a Round and Dynamic character we saw all side of her personality her being sad, mad at her husband for treating her like a kid, and how much she grows throughout the store she figures out that she was the woman in the wall. John and Jane’s relationship was not the best like I said he was very controlling and manipulative towards her. He never allowed her to be free and do what she pleases. I found that this store was very interesting to me and I learned a lot about patriarchy.
 * Chopin’s “Story of and Hour” and Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper”**

//Ideas: You've done a lovely job applying feminist criticism, and you show a strong connection to the story. You've done a good job showing me that you know the definitions of the literary terms and found good examples out of the text :) Sentence Fluency: This first sentence is hard to get through, and I think it's because you might have changed you mind about what you were saying. Conventions: Capitalization -- don't capitalize husband (her husband, John, because) or round or dynamic character. Spelling -- story (not store).//

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”**

Mystery of Heroism

In the store Mystery of Heroism, Fred Collins is our protagonist the main character. He is a round and dynamic character because he changes throughout the story and we see many side of his emotion, him being scared sad and acting like a hero. The images that are being described in this story is when Collins is running back from the water weal and soldiers are shooting at him so he is running as fast as he can to get back to safety. As he is running a officer on the ground that is dying ask Collins for some water and his id inside of him said “I can’t” as he screamed and his reply was full description of his quaking apprehension. Collins has no room amid his emotions for surprise. He was mad from the threat of destruction so he continued to run on for safety. As he was running he was thinks about his id and how he wanted to live and make it to a safe place but he also wanted to help the dying officer and give him a drink of water. His superego was telling him to be brave and toughen up and go back and help the man. So he listened to his superego and turned around and went back to give the officer a drink of water. Collin right now is trying to hold the bucket steady but his shaking hand causes the water to splash all over the face of the dying man; the he jerked it away and ran on for safety. The officer was very thankful and he stopped making groans with his teeth and crying. Collins had made it back to safety and everyone was very surprised that he had made it back safely with water, he was now the hero because he had gone to go get water, stopped and helped a dying office that wanted one last drink before he died and made it back safely.

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”**

The Invalids’s Story In the story invalid’s, the protagonist is the narrator. By the way he talks; the dialect we can tell that he is an older man and he has been through a lot in his life time. His id is him trying to get rid of his friends dead body that he is transporting to Wisconson by train. His ego is him and Thomas the train driver try to get rid of the smell. First they tried perfumed and inscents and that didn’t work it actually made the smell wores, so bad that they had to stand outside in a winter storm. His supergo is he sat by his friend even though the smell was really bad. This store was writen by Mark Twain a.k.a. Samuel Clemens.