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In a time in your life, did you ever have a prized possession so special, that you were scared to ruin it, so you ended up not playing with it, or touching it to avoid leaving as much as a fingerprint on it? Well, if you have, then I think you will relate to this short story by Dorothy West. The Sun Parlor, by Dorothy West, is a fictional story about a room in a family’s house. A room that started off so plain, and probably a little bit unappreciated, then one summer, it was transformed. It was so entrancing, warm, and welcoming, it soon became a room everybody wanted to be in for various amounts of reasons. It was as if the sun parlor were a rollercoaster, its bright and beautiful yellow walls were the line, and you were waiting at

Nellie Bly was born May 5th, 1864 in a small town called Cochran Mills in Pennsylvania. Nellie’s real name is Elizabeth Cochrane. Nellie was a Journalist; she began her newspaper career at the age of 18. Nellie got her pseudonym from her editor, who refused to openly allow a female to write for his paper.

“Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.” Jim Rohns quote highlights the basis of Debra Oswald’s play Gary’s house, and also Miroshav Holubs poem The Door. This essay will explore the notion that change causes people to shift their thinking and actions after significant catalysts. Gary’s House illustrates many of the issues and predicaments confronted by the characters and how their alteration in behaviour can have a beneficial outcome for them or others around them. The concept of "The Door" is based on the idea of taking risks and embracing change. The poet uses persuasive techniques to encourage and provoke the audience to take action.

Shirley Jackson’s, who wrote We Have Always Lived in a Castle, discussed the nature of a human being while having an evil side. It was set in a small town as early 20th century in New England. The main character and narrator is Mary Katherine, who’s also known as “Merricat” is alike sociopath characters, who shows a signs of mental illness. She sees surrounding as ghost and uses her feeling of sympathy for magic to control everything around her. Merricat uses these magic to control objects and her evironemnt to show a sense of power and superiority, as well shows readers her inhuman character and ways.

In the novel, The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros, the theme of growing up is prevalent throughout the book. Throughout the novel, a young mexican girl named Esperanza goes through experiences as she matures that involve her friends, society, dangers that expose her to the outside world and help her to realize what the real world is like.

By comparing both stories together, and the characters within them, it is clear that neither the narrator from “The Yellow Wallpaper” or Harrison from “Harrison Bergeron” agree with the way they are being treated caused by their social, political and economic standpoint in society. In both stories they have opposing forces trying to dictate their life, and telling them who they are supposed to be. Within the story “The Yellow Wallpaper”, the narrator is being authorized by her husband john and in the story “Harrison Bergeron”, Harrison is being oppressed by his government system. In both societies of the stories, the characters are treated differently for who they are. The people to have more power in their lives, decide who they are and what they can be. The ultimate outcome of their life is up to the forces controlling them. Both characters have no way to escape the labels given to them, without going against the people restraining their potential. The characters have many good attributes to them, but are confined to being what others tell them to be. The narrator has wonderful writing skills and an active mind which allows her to be creative and have an artistic personality, but her husband will not allow her to write or be who she wants to be because he has the capability to control who she is. Harrison is a genius and an athlete who could build upon his abilities to better himself as a person both mentally and physically, but the government will not allow him to

At the end of the story, the husband has died. This could be seen as the womans “freedom”. Linda Wagner-Martin writes “She wins back her language, and vanquishes her husband--who has neither speech nor action by the end of the story. He lies as if dead in the path of her highly functional movement, and she simply crawls over him. The wallpaper has replaced the writing paper that he would have taken from her, and she has in some ways won back her right to speech and control.” The theme of the writing is the role of women in this time period and their dependence on men but at the end of her writing she has taken control.

Feminism and Patriarchy “[T]he master's tools will never dismantle the master's house. They may allow us temporarily to beat him at his own game, but they will never enable us to bring about genuine change. And this fact is only threatening to those women who still define the master's house as their only source of support.” – Audre Lorde.

Even though this first story in Hunter’s collection is only six pages, it is filled with tension and surprising moments. These happen at unexpected times and the suspense is also heightened by having the adjectives and actions told through a run-on sentence. The third numbered section (the last) of this piece starts on page 8 with, “...Peggy Paula wondering if she felt comfortable enough to get herself something to sip, and the woman coming out with Peggy Paula’s bread knife held high in her fist and making a horrible sound with her mouth, then Peggy Paula realized the woman was sobbing with her mouth wide open, and her heart broke for the woman even as she lunged…” We have many different things going on in this sentence and it may take a few reads as it did for me to really grasp all the going-ons.

The birth of a baby can generate a lot of powerful emotions. Emotions like excitement, joy, fear, and anxiety. It can also result in something you might not expect. In the early 1800’s postpartum depression was misdiagnosed by a physician and calling it “hysteria”. In this time period, physicians were only males so they were more dominant; and females were looked down upon. Postpartum depression is what a mother suffers from after giving birth. It is a combination of hormonal changes and psychological adjustment to motherhood. Mothers who develop postpartum depression are at greater risk of developing other major depressions later on in life, and have difficulty bonding with their babies. 100 years ago this wasn’t a diagnosis, it was very common and plenty of women went through it. “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Gilman, talks about how the main character in the story was suffering from postpartum depression, schizophrenia and obsession. These depressions led her to write this story to expose physician’s misdiagnoses and lack of understanding.

During the early nineteenth century women had less of a voice when it came to making decisions all the decision making were usually left to the men especially in relationships. The short story “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Play “Trifles” by Susan Glaspell are two pieces of fictional literature that exhibit the roles of women in a marriage during the period. In the short story “The Yellow Wallpaper” the reader reads about a woman who has been in a room for the summer to cure her sickness of nervous depression by her husband who is a physician. The play “trifles” takes place in a farmhouse where the police are investigating the murder of Mr. Wright whose body was discovered when a friend comes over to visit only to find Mrs. Wright weaving while the husband is hung in their room upstairs. The two pieces of fictional literature give insight to what were the expected roles of women in marriage, how marriage was some sort of prison that limits the women, and how the women broke away from that atmosphere they were in.

“The Yellow Wallpaper” (1890), by Charlotte Perkins Stetson, is a short story – framed as a series of diary entries – narrated by an anonymous narrator who appears to be suffering from what she characterizes as a “nervous condition” (648). Despite feeling fine she was forced by her physician-husband, John, to stay in her room at all times which made her get worse, suffering from fatigue and depression. She tried to convince herself that her husband knows the best for her. However, his attitude made her to hate his mansion and marriage. John’s treatment has some impact on her body. As a result of her condition, she began to obsess over the yellow wallpaper in the

The author's description of her scent makes no sense to me. The metaphor, ‘female old flesh long embattled in virginity’, seems out of place because how can someone smell like an old virgin woman. The length of the sentence also bothered me. By itself it was 146 words long. Generally, run-on sentences longer than the average paragraph tend to bore people. Furthermore, the woman is described two times in two different paragraphs. At the end of the first paragraph, the author states the woman is tall, rigid, and has a dark aura . In the second paragraph, the author describes her scent, face, and the sound of her voice. When I first read the excerpt, I didn’t know the old woman was being described in the second paragraph because of the shear number of metaphors and similes and the distance between the old woman’s first and second description.

This shows the character is struggling with change because she is almost caught. Running away created a big change in the way she lived so she has to adjust, but that requires her to be flexible, which she is very much not. This also portrays some of the difficulties she is having staying hidden. For example, the quote says, “Oh crud, I was totally busted.” This part of the story is explaining the dilemmas she is having because of carelessness and the fact that people are trying to locate her. She knew it would be hard from the beginning, but she just had to get away from her foster parents

This clearly states how she feels about each part of the story. I believe this seems as if she is rejecting the conventional style of writing by thinking like this and incorporating it into her writing. This is yet another way the story is metafictional.