Charlotte Brontë

Keen was furious and stomping down the hall. When Shimmer heard him mumbling under his breath that was her sign that their father didn’t say Shaylin was his Mate. “Keen, you want to talk?” Keen walked into Shimmer’s room collapsing with defeat onto her window seat. “I’m not going to do this. It’s not fair to any Mate, if I’m in-love with my Servant.” Shimmer walked over to sit next to her brother. “I have a secret; I’m going to leave two days before the Vampire Valentine party, and not come back…

Andy Biersack was in the South tower for a business meeting on the 69th floor. He was in the middle of the meeting listening to a speech when the first plane hit. Fire and smoke were everywhere. He got down to the working elevators. Andy decided not to use the elevator for safety reasons. He wouldn’t chance it. Instead, he took the stairs. He started down the stairs, then heard a mother and her baby crying behind one door. He walked in and saw that the mother was holding her baby, but something…

I felt a cold breeze fall over my body. The feeling was nothing new but I had no blanket to keep the wind off of my body. How odd it was that last night I had gone to bed beneath layers of quilts and was now in a quite drafty room. I peeled my eyes open to find that I was not at the inn after all but in a room colored blue like the ocean. When I was sitting up a girl walked through the door and yelled a word so vulgar that I dare not write it. “Who are the HELL are you?” she exclaimed as she…

Yellow Wallpaper My mother and father are unlike most parents these days. My father John is a physician and my mother Jane is his patient. Mother has been very depressed lately, for reason which I do not know. My father says that our new home will help her recover, but I don’t think it is helping. Mother stays in the “nursery” which has windows which are barred. She says the wallpaper drives her mad and that there is a woman within it. My father copes with her by telling her to rest, but she…

Marge Piercy, a Feminist American author wrote different poems about women. “Barbie Doll’ and “A Work of Artifice” are some of many examples. These two poems are similar in main idea, view point, and tone. In the first poem “Barbie Doll,” the author talks about how in society woman are expected to look perfect. It shows the story of a girl that was smart, and beautiful in her own way, but because society was criticizing her she decided to have surgery. The main idea of this poem is that society…

During my time volunteering at Pelican Pointe Assisted Living I fell in love the residents. Each one of them lived radically different lives and were unique. I lived for their stories, pointed advice, and banter. Much of the reason I began working there was because I missed my grandmother when she passed away and I had always enjoyed the company of her and her friends. Just as each member of the residential community is unique so are their needs. Of all the people that helped in achieving the…

In “The Yellow Wallpaper,” the narrator becomes obsessed with the unsightly wallpaper in the room that she rests in constantly. Her description of this room---and more importantly, the wallpaper---reveals her growing insanity and conflicting feelings about her husband. Each thing the narrator notices about the wallpaper exposes the chaos within her mind. Furthermore, she also utilizes a darker tone and vivid imagery, which gives the reader another deeper understanding of the narrator. The…

do things with her life. After having decoded the pattern and identifying herself as the woman locked inside it, she found a way to destroy it and seek her freedom and individuality to the young woman desired deeply in her heart, In conclusion, Charlotte Perkins Gilman uses The Yellow Wallpaper to demonstrate in a short representation full of symbols and images one of the diverse ways women have been oppressed throughout history and the struggle of a mentally ill feminist to find freedom from…

“The Yellow Wallpaper”, a short story written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, is a narrative about the mistreatment, belittlement and submissiveness of the narrator, and her mental illness. The story also exemplifies the treatment of women in marriages during the 1800’s. The Yellow Wallpaper clearly depicts the oppression of women in marriages over the last few centuries, but especially during this time period. The short story shows the downplay of women suffering from mental illnesses, and the…

Savohn Hunt Mr.Wixon Comparative Lit 4/15/16 The Degradation of Women Throughout Literature Whats the first thing that comes to mind with heroes more importantly who comes to mind. Most people would said Superman, Batman maybe even the Flash . In his 1987 Graphic Novel Watchmen Alan Moore depicts an alternate version of America in 1985. In this alternate timeline ,costumed heroes are an ordinary part of society. Throughout this novel the women are often degraded and demeaned. Though Moore…