Silas Marner

The narrator in “The Yellow Wallpaper” slowly sinks into insanity as she narrates, allowing the readers to go along for the ride into madness and cultivate a certain amount of sympathy for her and her plight as they read along. At every point, she is faced with relationships, objects, and situations that seem ordinary and normal, but that are actually quite strange and even oppressive. As the narrator obsesses more and more over the wallpaper she starts connecting it to her current life…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

The narrator in “The Yellow Wallpaper” takes the reader along the ride through her own personal downfall. The narrator loses her sanity, when her husband refuses to believe she is sick mentally not physically. The 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 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…

Although she is a woman of high social status, the narrator in “The Yellow Wallpaper” goes mad because she is chronically depressed, lonely, and on drugs all the time. The main character of “The Yellow Wallpaper” went mad 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…

Most singer/ songwriters find inspiration to write a new song in the strangest places. It is no different with Michael Jackson’s hit Smooth Criminal. Michael found his inspiration for this song at a C.P.R. class where they addressed the C.P.R. doll as Annie. They were told to ask the doll, “Annie, are you okay?” as part of the class. Michael had originally planned the song and music video to have a western theme in 1984, but scrapped the idea and changed it to, a quote on quote, “gangster…