And interesting story was that of the one Gilman wrote to change one man's view of neurasthenia, but to use the story as a symbol of the oppression of women in a paternalistic society. To begin with, we know the name of the narrator's husband, but not her own. She is nearly anonymous; her identity is John's wife. This power imbalance extends to ( Read more... )

A really good story in my opinion that we read for discussing in class was the one of, This is What It Means to Say Phoenix Arizona by the author Alexie. I guess one reason I liked it was because I like to watch old western movies dealing with Indians ans stuff. But this short story is about a time when the reservations where still in affect for ( Read more... )

Okay, so another story we read for one of our assignments was the one of Happy Endings, by the writer Atwood. And this story is done in a very unique and special way. It is pretty much done in like a way to give the reader many scenarios and life-probable situations throught the lifes a some character. As well as to show how little or big , even ( Read more... )

When I sarted reading this poem, I imagined a big supermarket where american families used to shop in the evening. Why in California? Because there are many products in the stores from California, especially fruits.I didn't know the names of Walt Whitman or Federico Garcia Lorca. I noticed that Ginsberg described Walt Whitman in an interesting way ( Read more... )

The women in Antigone appear to have more respect for their relatives than the men. Antigone, the main example, wants to bury her brother because it is the proper thing to do, no matter what the king may tell her. Ismene also has sympathy for her brother, and would like to bury him as well, if her life were not in danger. The women care less about ( Read more... )

There are many interpretations of the kid story Little Red Riding Hood. The first ones being that they were not really children friendly, and were actually intended for older audiences. They contained a lot of sexual content compared to the extremely watered down kids stories we have now. And of course in between all of these different versions ( Read more... )

After reading Sextons Little Red’s poem I found that one of the first tales of the story of little red was from a man called Charles Perrault his folk tale tells of an unnamed peasant girl who meets a werewolf on her way to visit her grandmother. The wolf asks her whether she is taking the path of pins or needles. She indicates that she is on her ( Read more... )

So one of the few times I think I will ever say I actually enjoyed reading and talking about a poem has to be the one we read done by Holzer, Love and Other Catastrophes: a Mix Tape. I truly enjoyed this for one main reason. Well I guess two. But the first has to be because the style and way it was written in. It is not in like a traditional ( Read more... )

One of the poems we has studied earlier on in the semester was the one called My Last Duchess. This was a very interesting poem and here are a couple of thoughts over it...This is written as a dramatic monologue. The duke seemed to be a very jealous, controlling, and possessive man. It's very likely that he killed her, because she couldn't become ( Read more... )

For the research paper, I read the book Neverwhere by the author Niel Gaiman. I can honestly say that I enjoyed reading this novel because I, personally, have always found the genres of mystery, sci-fi and other related material very appealing. Mainly because it lets your mind get out of the daily routine of being tied down to concrete realistic ( Read more... )