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The focus of this blog is to provide an analysis of the book The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. The blog will have three different sections, which include a literary analysis, an argumentation piece, and a narration piece. Literary Analysis: Context: Charlotte Gilman was a writer that was born in 1860. She wrote novels and had a magazine, and later committed suicide in 1935. Publish date: 1892 Text: A woman and her husband temporarily move to a new home to help the woman recover from her depression. She soon becomes fascinated with the yellow wallpaper in the bedroom as her mental health deteriorates. Style: Subjective, serious, with short sentences. Subtext: Themes: Mental health/depression, power and control, and sexism Motifs: Yellow wallpaper, notebook, and bars on windows Argumentation: The narrator didn’t have much freedom when it came to the actual act of writing in her journal. She was technically not supposed to be writing, and had to constantly hide the notebook from her husband, John, and his sister. It seemed like her life with John was largely being told what to do and being controlled by him. But otherwise, she had a lot of freedom to make whatever choices she wanted, at least in terms of writing. She didn’t have any restraints on what she could write; she could write basically whatever she wanted. It was a notebook; a place for her to write her thoughts and feelings, not a novel that she planned on publishing. Narration: In general, I tend to limit myself in my ability in making important life choices, although very rarely am I put in that position. I hate making decisions, big or small. I always have and probably always will. The pressure of making a choice is overwhelming, and I always worry that I’m going to make the wrong choice. I also worry about what effect it’ll have on the people around me, like friends and family. A fair amount of the stress stems from having an anxiety disorder, causing me to overanalyze the situation and deciding last minute. I’ve always had pretty low self-confidence as well, so I never feel confident in the decisions I make.
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English 112 Blog post #1 Blog post introduction: This blog post is going to analyze and interpret a podcast called What You don’t know. This blog post will contain a literary analysis, an argumentation section, and a narration section. Literary analysis: Context: Author biography: She is a filmmaker who was originally a classical pianist. She was raised in Miami after being born in Beijing. Publish Date: April 22, 2016 Setting: China Text: Genre? Plot Summary: Lulu Wang’s grandmother was diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer and had 3 months to live, and her family decided not to tell her about the diagnosis. POV: Lulu Wang’s POV Tone/Style: Subjective, emotional, intimate, and serious Subtext: Theme: Grief, Deception, Ignorance Argumentation: Honestly, I don’t know whether I agree with the decision or not. I fully understand why the family decided to lie; the grandmother didn’t ever get sick and die anyway. I think if the grandmother was younger, then I would probably not agree with the decision to lie about having a terminal illness. On the other hand, if someone does indeed have a terminal illness, they deserve to know. It seems cruel and disrespectful to lie about it, especially if they only have a certain amount of time left to live. I have seen relatives both die and survive different forms of cancer; I even had a benign cancer tumor removed from my left ring finger last summer. I don’t think lying about having the cancer would have been able to help those I’ve lost. The cancer would still be there; it would still wreck their bodies and minds. Not telling someone about a serious ailment won’t magically ‘cure’ them of it. I know that I would want to know if something like this was happening to me. If I had pulled this stunt on my dad, he would disown me. Those were basically his exact words. Narration: I had an experience last year that indirectly affected a friend after keeping a relatively big secret from them. This friend, I’ll call her Michelle, entered the same college I did last year. She had a boyfriend that she had been with for at least a couple of years. He would occasionally visit the college and they would hang out in my dorm with my roommate, who I’ll call Gina, and I. My roommate came to me one night and told me that Michelle’s boyfriend, Joe, had confessed to Gina that he liked her and that they kissed. She told me not to tell Michelle, which I hesitantly agreed to, figuring that they would figure it out. Now I don’t remember if Gina ever did tell Michelle, but I was told much later that Joe was cheating on Michelle with at least two or three other girls. I haven’t spoken to Michelle since she found out about the cheating, so I don’t know how big the impact was. There is a little bit of background that isn’t included, and honestly, I don’t know if saying anything would have fixed the situation at all. But it’s something that I still occasionally feel guilty about. |
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