John N. Mitchell

In this essay I will be comparing and contrasting two depression era photographs, Dorothea Lange’s Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California and Margaret Bourke¬-White’s At the Time of the Louisville Flood. Both tell a story for what was happening in America during the time of the depression, while also telling personal stories. Dorothea Lange’s photograph, Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California, shows a mother with three of her children. You can see the mother is worried and seem to be stressed. The…

Since the last time I wrote a journal, I have finished reading Richelle Mead’s Shadow Kiss. This story is about the main character, Rose, and how she has to research deeper into her mind to figure out why she feels all sorts of emotions, what her fate is, and why the Queen’s nephew, Adrian, keeps telling her she has a ‘dark aura’ around her. Rose, in addition, has to make sure her best friend, Lissa, is okay through their magical bond, which allows Rose to see what Lissa can see. This is a…

Symbolism is everywhere in literature. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, symbolism is “the use of symbols to represent ideas or qualities” (Symbolism, n1). Symbolism is widely used throughout literature. Iin plays like The Miracle Worker symbolism is used to drive the story forward. A symbol in The Miracle Worker that drives the play’s plot forward is the keys that are kept around the Keller household. The keys are a symbol because they show Helen’s growing trust with Annie and the…

“The Yellow Wallpaper” is a short story written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. It is about a woman who is suffering from nervous depression, and is taken by her husband, a physician, to a house that has been empty, and unlived in for years. Her husband keeps her in an isolated room in efforts to convince her that time to herself away from her home and life would leave her feeling more positively. However, her illness only worsens due to the fact she is controlled by her husband, isolated against…

Julia Reynolds Anne Sexton Biography Anne Sexton was an American poet, known for her highly personal, confessional style. She won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1967. Themes of her poetry include her suicidal tendencies, long battle against depression and various details from her private life. Anne Sexton was born in Newton, Massachusetts, and spent most of her life near Boston. In 1945, Sexton attended the boarding school, Rogers Hall, in Lowell, Massachusetts. In 1948 she eloped with…

What this poor child was saying in pictures was that she hated herself. In her own eyes she was repulsive, a nothing. But as the therapist made progress and the child grew more cheerful and took more interest in the world, those self-portraits changed dramatically. The child began to use bright crayons. She began to put features on the face, though for a while she kept making the mouth area black; this was during a phase in which she was saying unpleasant things. Eventually she got over that,…

women seemed to take. The females in this time period usually went along with the belief that women should listen to men without any objection or opinions of their own. This is made clear when Gilman writes on page 1037, “I meant to be such a help to John…here I am a comparative burden already!” The narrator feels that she is a burden to her husband because she does not like the wallpaper and keeps speaking her thoughts about it even after he makes it clear that he will not change it. She blames…

“the yellow wallpaper” uses a theme of psychological horror. In the story john’s treatment backfires going terribly wrong. His ignorance is what makes him no mere cardboard villain within the story. Johns’ unequal relationship with his wife keeps him from understanding her and her problems. After John ended the imprisoning relationship with his insane wife he fainted in shock and went unrecognized by his crazy wife. There was an ugly girl who always walked with a limp and lived in a ramshackle…

In Charlotte Perkin Gilman's novel, The Yellow Wallpaper, the main character suffers from postpartum depression following the birth of her child. However, it was unknown to people during the time of the victorian era that this disorder existed. Physicians diagnose these women with hysteria which is to be treated with the rest cure. The main character is married to a physician who oversees her treatment daily and makes sure she does not veer off the path to recovery that he plans for her. In The…

the world solely through the woman’s eyes, and are after a while we are forced to take in to question the reliability of the narrator. At the beginning of the story, the protagonist seems trustworthy enough. We are informed that she and her husband John have receded to a summer home, when she was diagnosed with a nerves depression, or hysteria, after the birth of her son. This was a common diagnosis for middleclass women in the 1800’s. Today she might have been diagnosed with postpartum…