Scales 1! Katrina Scales David Miles ENC-1102 16 July 2015 A Yellow Rose It is likely that after reading short stories The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman and A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner‚ any sensible reader will feel disturbed in at least the slightest. Both texts contain neurotic women of unsound mind who have deathly obsessions. At first glance‚ these stories do not seem to have much in common; they have been written through opposite perspectives‚ one neglects to be chronological
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Chapter 1: her story Life was always hard‚ always a challenge for Elizabeth Welch. She was just a regular teenager‚ (on the outside) everything was going wrong in her family‚ her parents devoiced‚ her sister Angela died in a car crash with her boyfriend‚ Justin‚ (my mom can’t sue him so she’s going to sue his parent’s) her best closest and only friend is in the hospital‚ (she jumped out of a window‚ well more like throne) and it gets worse‚ her brother was in a motorcycle accident and
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expects or assumes one thing and the opposite is true. It allows an author to engage and surprise the audience‚ which often also teaches an important lesson. Two classic examples of irony through literature are Oedipus the King by Sophocles and The Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin. In the play Oedipus the King‚ Sophocles uses dramatic irony for the moral and political education of society. Dramatic irony depends on the audience’s knowledge of something that the character does not know. Throughout this play
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Another Bradstreet’s poem was called Upon the Burning of Our House as the poem itself taught Bradstreet and the readers just as myself the same message as the poem‚ In Memory of My Dear Grandchild. The message was to continue to believe in their faith of religion and to feel human emotions such as sorrow. In the poem started with the lines‚ “In silent night when rest I took/For sorrow near I did not look/ I wakened was with thundering noise/ And piteous shrieks of dreadful noise” (Bradstreet‚ 105
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Patrick Silva AP Lit Period 4 Mr. Schmitz October 11‚ 2012 How I Met My Husband Thesis Paper The theme of Alice Munro’s story “How I met my Husband” is Social expectations mold individual circumstances. Edie‚ a fifteen year old housemaid in the lower class of society has qualities and talents that demonstrate a skill set of aristocracy. "Have a house without pie‚ be ashamed until you die" is a quoted statement that Edie ’s mother used to say to her that Mrs. Peebles was not very familiar
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When I was a little girl‚ my grandmother told me a lot of interesting legends with handsome and kind princes that were always in my mind‚ so I had a dream of marrying an ideal husband like them. Now‚ I would still like to marry a charming prince‚ I always believe that one day‚ I will meet my ideal lover and build a happy family with an ideal husband. Some women say that a husband is impossible to find‚ but an ideal one may be easier to find. The qualities of the ideal husband are probably different
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The Art of Loving is a slim volume of only a little over a hundred pages yet it packs one hell of a punch. Written some fifty years ago‚ here is a more damning indictment of modern society than anything the existential crowd of Bertrand Russell‚ Albert Camus or Jean Paul Sartre could cook up. The Art of Loving is a very concise and pithy read‚ it is written in the terse lucid style of gospel‚ each word in each line serving a critical function. This is not a writer’s style nor is a critic’s but that
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In the short story How I Met My Husband by author Alice Munro‚ the setting takes place in a small country town around the end of WWII. It is easy to tell that Edie feels a little out of place in the Peebles’ house since they are new to the country and are more wealthy than Edie’s family. When Edie was describing her job she says‚ “Mrs. Peebles had an automatic washer and dryer‚ the first I ever saw‚” (Munro 220). This quote shows how not many people were able to afford luxuries like modern day conveniences
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The short story “The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin connects to the short story “My Mother Rachel West” by Dorothy West in the use of situational irony because both main characters are relieved mentally because of the death of a loved one. “The Story of an Hour” is a short story about a woman named Mrs. Mallard‚ who has a minor heart condition‚ and her reaction and reflection after she hears the news about her husband’s death. After hearing the news about her husband’s death from an unknown railroad
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The story is about a young girl‚ Edie‚ who is hired help for Dr. Peebles and his family. One afternoon while the family is away in town‚ Edie meets Chris Watters‚ a pilot who travels from town to town giving rides in his plane for a fee. Edie falls in love with him‚ but soon learns that he is engaged to another woman‚ Alice Kelling. Alice is crazy and has been following Chris everywhere in hopes of marrying him. One day while Alice‚ Mrs. Peebles and the children were away on a picnic‚ Edie goes to
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