Yellow fever

The last leaf is a short story written by O.Henry in 1907 and it was translated in Hindi as Aakhiri Patta by children’s fiction writer Arvind Gupta.The story is about two young artists Joanna and Sue who live together in Greenwich Village, New York City. Joanna was down with Pneumonia and in those days there was no cure for pneumonia and so while lying on her bed she used to stare at a tree which lost most of its leaves and made her mind that the day the last leaf falls, she will die.Meanwhile,…

In the stories “The Story of an Hour” and “The Chrysanthemums”, the main protagonists from each story has an epiphany or a realization in their lives and relationships. The characters are both in relationships that they subtly hint throughout the story that they are not happy in. While both end in depressing fashion, each character also finishes their respective story dramatically different. In each story, both characters react to the events that cause the epiphany in similar ways, such as how…

PART 1- Identify Three Research Questions WHY DO BATTERED WOMEN STAY IN THE RELATIONSHIP: Most battered women remain in there abusive relationships due to several reasons and in trying to discover the answer to why they stay is a process that needs to be address by some research questionnaire and interview to identify the reasons behind their decision. WHAT ARE THE COPING MECHANISM FOR BATTERED WOMEN: If battered women chose to stay by receiving all the abuse they should be a…

Throughout life people overgo many different changes based off of different experiences and the knowledge they obtain over time. Alice Walker, the author of the novel The Color Purple, demonstrates the emergence of these kinds of changes. The book is about a woman who maintains her faith through writing letters to first God and then her sister. The main character Celie, writes about her everyday experiences both good and bad. After she meets another important character, Shug Avery, both…

Grendel and Frankenstein’s monster are creatures that society rejects because they are different. The two monster’s try to find a place in society, even learning human language to fit in. Even though both monsters have learned to speak English fluently, humans still frown upon the creatures. The only reason why the two monster’s path goes astray is that they do not have any mentor’s or parents that guide them throughout their life. Grendel tries to adapt and fit in, he observes the humans,…

Gilman, the author, represents her own life in the story “The Yellow Wallpaper”. This story illustrates the situation that a married woman with depression goes through. The story is allegedly placed in a rental house the husband acquired but the plot is on the narrator´s room. Within the story the narrator gives importance to a yellow wallpaper placed insider her room. She spends hours describing it in many and different ways, she also imagines things and shapes on the wallpaper. Throughout the…

things that portray an overall theme or mood. In the works, “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman and “Hills Like White Elephants” by Ernest Hemingway, they both carry multiple themes throughout their stories. However, one of the most significant themes throughout them both are the oppression of women in dominating male relationships. Within these stories there are underlying plots and motifs throughout them both. In “The Yellow Wallpaper” the audience witnesses her husband telling…

In Charlotte Brontë’s novel Jane Eyre, Mr. Rochester tries in vain to convince Jane to stay with him even though he has a living wife; he gives a heartfelt plea that is almost pityingly vulnerable in its honesty, but Jane’s integrity keeps her passion in check and she remains unswayed by his revelations. Meanwhile, Mr. Rochester, in damning the women he’d kept as mistresses, damns himself to a life apart from Jane, devoid of love and joy, by steeling her resolve to leave him and not become the…

parties view each other as equals and share responsibilities. “The Yellow Wallpaper” depicts the narrator's unhealthy dependency on John, who is in charge of her mental health and physical state. Apart from being her doctor, she believes they are married. Charlotte Perkins Gilman demonstrates how ignoring one’s concerns in a relationship results in distrust and destruction through the relationship between John and the narrator in “The Yellow Wallpaper”. John's position of power creates a strain…

Unjustly regarded as mentally and physically inferior to their male counterparts, Victorian women painters were believed to be unable to produce original art. The creative world of painting belonged to the male artists to the fullest and female painters had been pushed back to its margins. Debarred from the production of creative art, women painters were relegated to the role of the amateur painters, merely expected to be well versed in the rudiments of painting for domestic purposes. In order…