The yellow wall paper

I loved this story it has to be one of the best of the year. I love physiological thrillers they are so good. This story I felt highlight the treatment of women in the 1800 not only were women being treated unfair I felt that the yellow wallpaper described this dominance of attributes. In the story the main characters husband kept her from making any decision or doing anything at all that would have help her progress in fact he kept her like a prisoner who would not go crazy being treated this way. Even on page 356 she say he hates to even have me write a word if this is not male dominance to the max then I do not know what is. Not only is it unfair to be treated this way but it show how women where looked at as objects and or pet rather than equals.
I feel also that Perkins is writing for change and showing the world that believe it or not women can do the impossible and that they should be treated as equal I think that why the ending of the story is so dramatic when she step over her husband and walks away. Yet I felt this same message was trying to be delivered in Alcott's "A Whisper in the Dark,"

Tom Sawyer

I really enjoyed reading Tom Sawyer, it was a great story. However, I like the character Ragged Dick because he had more on a city-orientated lifestyle which I can relate to more. However, I did love Tom Sawyer's cleverness an country intelligence. He was very intriguing due to the fact he could work his way out of any situation and; I also enjoyed how he used religion making fun of it with the tickets in the bible. On Pg. 16 the quote "Oh come now you don't mean to let on that, you like it." I thought it was really clever how Tom tricked his friend into doing his work. Also, I thought it was interesting how Mark Twain depicted slaves in the book. Even though they were free, the slaves were still ignorant and distasteful.

On Pg. 19, I loved how Tom Sawyer referred to himself as “…if he had been a great and wise philosopher, like the writer of this book, he would have now comprehended that Work consists of whatever a body if obliged to do, and that Play consists of what a body is obliged to do.” Mark Twain, uses the character of Tom Sawyer to speak to audience and make a personal commentary about himself.

The Yares of Black Mountain Prompt

What I found interesting about the story we read that no one in class seemed to mention is this notion of where in the world was this women going what was her final destination. Also, like Bill said in class what was the purpose of the description of the baron place? Why was this so relevant to the text? I felt the baron description had a deeper meaning that to city people country people seem dull and baron. I use to always wonder being from Miami what did people in the country do all day because with so much land there was no distraction or activities. What kind of life was this that you could have been so spread out from your neighbor that you would only see them once a week. I mean these people seemed to be so involved in nature doing their own farming and so forth. I just felt like it was a story to kind of mock or make fun of the country life. Plus the only reason why this girl was treated fairly was for the simple facts that she had a baby seemed like she would have been treated bad if the baby was not around. I really mainly did not like this story out of all the story we have read this is been the worst story of them out it seemed pointless and I was over analyzing everything because it was so pointless.