Tuesday, November 1, 2016

DUE ON THURSDAY 11/3

READ "THE YELLOW WALLPAPER"  BY CHARLOTTE PERKINS- GILLMAN 
THE STORY IS IN THE TEXT. 


The setting : A large home in America
Written in 1892
Point of View is First Person

Motif- The Yellow Wallpaper as it occurs throughout the story.


Answer the following in your notebook:
Characterize John in 4-5 Adjectives
Characterize the Narrator 4-5 Adjectives

Why is the wallpaper a central motif in the story? Why does it seem an appropriate metataphor for the woman in this story.

Who is the woman behind the wallpaper?
What does she symbolize?

Finally.... Discuss the rising action and climax as you see it in the story..

Perkins -Gillman strove to understand the basis of societal structures.. She was a suffragist and Journalists.


Watch the Trailer:
IRON JAWED ANGELS





Lecture: Egalitarianism to Follow

NOTE- please note that the EQUALITY lecture is a reflection of HISTORY and not of OPINIONS.

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