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    In both, “The Yellow Wallpaper”, and “The Metamorphosis” the characters have an obvious lack of communication and connection. In “The Yellow Wallpaper”, the narrator is silenced many times by her husband and or Doctor which happen to be the same person. In “The Metamorphosis”, the son Gregor is silenced not by his family but by his new transformation. In both, “The Yellow Wallpaper”, and “The Metamorphosis” Gregor and the narrator are silenced not by their own choice or actions but by…

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    The way that John treated the narrator’s depression went particularly wrong, but his intentions were to actually help her not make it worse. The narrator states that “he loves me dearly, and hates to have me sick.” telling the reader that even she knows he wants to help her heal (7). But since John knows no other than the male “superior” role, being her husband and doctor, he believes he has that authority…

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    Thirdly, Dillard heavily relies on pathos to show the inner conflict she is having with herself. When Dillard first mentions the fact that she lives alone with her cat, “I joke to her blank face, Do you remember last night? Do you remember?” (1). By using her cat and showing her unresponsiveness, the author displays her vulnerable struggle of having to live alone, having no one to share and discuss moments with. This contributes an emotional argument to what Dillard is giving up in order to…

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    Half way through the hero’s journey there’s the biggest battle the hero must face alone. It is this battle that will indicate if the person is worthy enough to be a hero. For Stephen this battle was taking care of his family. "Despite the financial strain, Hawking, like his own father, was conscious of the need to provide an upper-class education for his children on a middle-class salary. [...] She married Hawking fully aware of his condition, and for years, she chopped up every tiny morsel of…

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    The short story, The Yellow Wallpaper, is a first person gothic narrative that explores a woman’s mental experience on her own mental illness and how she is treated based on her demographics by the people around her. The story was placed in the late 19th century, in a time period when mental illness and mutual respect for women wasn’t entirely acknowledged as a whole. The narrator was brought into a new house with her husband, and senses an odd feeling in the home from the start. Her treatment…

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    The poem “Night Sounds”, by Carolyn Kizer is a confessional poem. The narrator in the poem is a woman. She is speaking to a departed husband or lover. Night Sounds is about a woman baring her soul to a departed husband or lover. The woman explains the terror that envelopes her throughout the night. The woman states that even in good times her lover was withholding something. She reminisced about the good times. Now when she calls out in fear there’s no answer, and she hears nothing but distant…

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    The 2 literary devices that Joy Kogawa used the most effectively in this passage are similes and imagery. You can see the importance of imagery in passage, where Naomi is describing how rough life is in their chicken coop “house.” Especially in the sentence ”the water spills down your boots and your feet are red and itchy for days.” This particular sentence is so important because it appeals to two of your senses, sight and touch. You also see the use of similes in the passage, “my black head a…

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    narrator’s view of the color, physical characteristics, and her imprisonment leads her to insanity. The narrators first notices the color of the wallpaper and finds it “repellant and almost revolting” The color grabs the narrator’s attention, when John loses his attention towards her. The early stage of noticing the wallpaper and making her focus increase more, the narrator still holds her sanity to the reader. The color of the wallpaper suddenly starts to show human characteristics to the…

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    The person who arranged Battle Hymn of The Republic is Mark Hayes. The person who created the song and the notes for the whole song of the Battle of Hymn of the republic except for arranging it, her name is Julia Ward Howe. She was born May 27, 1819. She died around 1910 from Pneumonia, at she portsmouth home, Oak Glen at the age of 91. She was buried in the Mount Auburn Cemetery in ambridge, Massachusetts. Julia Ward Howe was born in New York City, NY. Howe is known for writing the lyrics to…

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    The Yellow Wallpaper Mad

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    by the time the short story ended because she was chronically depressed. During the time that the story took place, women had no say and they weren't well taken care of. They were seen more as children rather than as older individuals. In this case, John, the main characters’ husband, diagnosed her wrong. He diagnosed her with “nervous depression” and that’s not what she had at all (Perkins Stetson 548). She went along with the treatment her husband recommended because she couldn’t say anything…

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