The Voice From The Wall Summary

When Elizabeth notices the grave, she’s thinking, “What kind of mother would bury her child, alone, in the woods? A bad mother.” Despite seeing this grave for the first time, she instinctively knows that this is a sign of a bad mother. Sure, a bad mother could have done it, but there is no reason to not think that any mother could have done this or if this was a mother’s doing at all. Moving back to the story, Elizabeth tries to find alternatives to dismiss her bad mother theory. An interesting point is made in the story that he reason Elizabeth couldn’t accept that this is a grave is because to her, “No mother in her right mind would bury a child so far away… from… everything.” This furthers the belief that Elizabeth has a growing hatred towards a mother whom she has never met. Furthermore, according to her, a mother would have to be crazy or downright evil to bury her child alone and abandon. Moving along, one of her theory is that the gravestone is a child’s game. However, the more she thought about, the more she thinks some mother, some bad mother, had let her child wander into the woods, alone. As this quote demonstrates, Elizabeth can’t find any alternatives without it leading to the realization that a bad mother is behind this. Another alternative is that the grave isn’t for a child, but for a pet. However, she dismisses that alternative because the gravestone says, “M. Y. P. R. E. C. I. O. U. S. O.” Her reasoning here is even more shoddy then her last reasoning. Maybe all of this doesn’t prove that Elizabeth doesn’t dislike mothers. Maybe all of this is evidence that Elizabeth needs to see a doctor. However, she herself says that she doesn’t like bad mothers. “[Her] mother has never been a good mother.” Out of context, this could mean that she doesn’t like her mom like a young child also doesn’t like her mom. Having say that, based on the many times

The narrator comes into the kitchen to see a huge mess and her mom in the middle of it. As she is walking in a piece of the debris almost hits her in the head. “I ducked as a piece of tile flew at me”. This already raises the tension in the story because the narrator has already almost been injured by a flying piece of tile. From the mothers point of view nothing is wrong and waves it off as it is was nothing which angers the narrator even more. “ I pushed past her to get the broom, but she grabbed me by the elbow. A feeling of nervous ness swelled inside me.” If that is not enough the narrators mother decides its the perfect time to tell her that in the next few days she will be leaving her mother and going to New Mexico for 3 months. “ But what am I supposed to do? That’s three whole months” The daughter is steamed because she is going to have to move again to a new place were she has not friends, but from the mothers point of view she is sending her child away so she can be safe while she going off to work in a unfamiliar place. The mother cannot see the situation from her daughters perspective that is why the passage progresses the way it does. It eventually leads to them fighting and the daughter locking herself in her room. If only the mother could have seen the daughters perspective then maybe she would have taken a different approach leading to a different more positive

Although this helps to add to the eerie feel of the story, it is to be expected. Another line that appeals to the emotions is, “THUMP, THUMP. The loud noise happened again, and a small scream escaped her mouth… THUMP, there it goes again, somebody is up there! (Castle of Spirits, 14)” This is the point in the story where the action is just starting to build up and make you want to read more. Lines like these are those thrill-seeking points that make you want to read more and find out what happens next. This urban legend has a good appeal to pathos and makes you want to keep reading it until the very end.

In the author's life he had witnessed his father's death at a young age, Wes wasn’t completely sure as to what was happening until he had gotten older. Without his father Wes had his grandparents and his mother to take care of him, but before Wes had moved in with his grandparents his mother had been sleeping on the couch and she claimed she did that because there had been many robberies in their neighborhood lately and she wanted to protect her children. Wes really knew why she had been sleeping on the couch and it was because it “allowed her avoid the haunted bedroom”.

Trapped in the upstairs of an old mansion with barred windows and disturbing yellow colored wallpaper, the main character is ordered by her husband, a physician, to stay in bed and isolate her mind from any outside wandering thoughts. “The Yellow Wallpaper”, written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, describes the digression of the narrator’s mental state as she suffers from a form of depression. As the story progresses, the hatred she gains for the wallpaper amplifies and her thoughts begin to alter her perception of the room around her. The wallpaper serves as a symbol that mimics the narrator’s trapped and suffering mental state while she slips away from sanity reinforcing the argument that something as simple as wallpaper can completely

The "Yellow Wall Paper "by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, is a chilling study and experiment of mental disorder in nineteenth century. This is a story of a miserable wife, a young woman in anguish, stress surrounding her in the walls of her bedroom and under the control of her husband doctor, who had given her the treatment of isolation and rest. This short story vividly reflects both a woman in torment and oppression as well as a woman struggling for self expression. The setting of "The Yellow Wallpaper" is the driving force in the story because it is the main factor that caused the narrator to go insane.

Bruce Dawe, one of the most influential Australian poets of his time was known for using his poems as a way to efficiently discuss the matters in society of his time and how this follows through generation, thus becoming a significant matter for his modern audience. Both Dawe’s poems The Not So Good Earth and Up The Wall have successfully demonstrated the issues of the complacency of our society towards the world around us and their issues and the disconnection this thenceforth creates in everyday life and how this impacts the individual. Dawe’s poem, Up The Wall, truly validates the impact of the suburban, everyday lifestyle on the individual and how the loneliness this creates can push someone to the edge. Dawe’s use of onomatopoeia with the abrupt words of “shrieked” and “screams” really imposes that internal struggle the woman was experiencing.

            “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman is an example of how stories and the symbolism to which they are related can influence the perspective of its readers and alternate their point of view. In the “Yellow Wall-Paper”, the unknown narrator gets so influenced by her surroundings that she starts showing signs of mental disorder, creating through many years several controversies on trying to find the real causes of her decease.

Through the mother, we see that dreaming may lead to a painful disappointment. The mother has an unrealistic image of her and her future husband as an idyllic, respectable and happy couple, which is not true in reality. “… avoiding the riotous amusements being beneath the dignity of so dignified couple”. She is trying to make an image of herself as an intelligent, domestic and interesting woman, which shows

The other Wes Moore written by Wes Moore is about two completely different life stories that have completely different outcomes. Two young men with the same name, lived in the same neighborhood, yet they chose two different paths to walk through life. The author chose going to school and getting an education. The other Wes Moore chose the path of drugs and alcohol. Each Wes had events that help shape the path they would walk on through life.

The story “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman is about a female narrator who is suffering from some form of post partum depression that spirals out of control as her husband tries to help by secluding her, in the middle of nowhere for three months. Since the woman is already admittedly unsound, the seclusion makes her fixate severely on yellow wallpaper in her bedroom. Eventually as her story progresses, her fixation becomes an obsession and the wallpaper begins to do things completely improbable. Eventually it becomes impossible to distinguish the facts from the fiction buried amidst her madness. By the end of her story, you realize that nothing this narrator is writing is reliable; because all the people around her notice

There has never been an end to my misfortune; from the early moments in my childhood to this very day. Looking back to when I was growing up, Mattie had always been there to back me up and to save my ass when I really was in trouble, but the day the wall came down was the end of him doing all the work for me. It was my turn to take a stand. It was my turn to make a difference. And it was my turn to kill them all.

Part three of the book “Beyond the Wall of Resistance” has two chapters and the title of part three is, “Narrowing the Gap the Next Time”. The first nine chapters of this book gave information on planning and implementing successful change. The final two chapters expand the information on change as it relates to hiring, monitoring the work of consultants, and selecting people to lead within the organization. Chapter ten, entitled “Expanding Your Ability to Apply What You’ve Learned”, gives a range of ways to apply the Cycle of Change and the three levels of support and resistance.

The stories, “A Rose for Emily” and “The Yellow Wallpaper,” both display how external dominance, isolation, and judgment from the outside world may cause one to lose their right mind. In both stories, the main characters begin to sink into further isolation from the outside world, leaving reality in the past.

On June 12, 1987 President Ronald Reagan gave his speech “Tear Down this Wall,” in Brandenburg Gate West Berlin Reagan begins by discussing the purpose of the Berlin Wall and how the Communists in August of 1961 built it to keep the Germans from escaping Communist-dominated East Berlin into Democratic West Berlin, that this wall was more than just a wall; it was a stark symbol of decades of a Cold War between the United States and Soviet Russia only to stop short of actual warfare. By giving this speech Reagan had intended to rally the people of West Berlin so the people would accept the western democracy and oppose the Berlin Wall. Due to Reagan being president the words he said had so much impact, he was able to use these appeals towards the German people and provide a very convincing argument.