Wednesday, 26 December 2018
Sunday, 16 December 2018
Wednesday, 12 December 2018
TWO PART READING RESPONSE: The Yellow Wallpaper (Charlotte Perkins Gilman)
The Yellow Wallpaper is a very interesting story. Talks about a mentally ill woman and her husband who is a doctor. As a doctor he convinced her that she needs to rest and to stay in the room in order to get well.“ The doctor” don’t listen to her when she said to him that she is feeling better he never heard her, she wanted to change the room because she thought that the room was a place that gives her depression, and make her feel sick. She seems like a woman completely depending on her husband. The things get worse when she start to obsess with the wallpaper. Maybe the wallpaper wants to represent the time or the way the women’s want to escape for the “control” of the men. Maybe the wallpaper want to represent also the difficult life of a woman, who doesn’t have voice and who can’t control their life’s .He made her believe that she is sick, maybe that’s because he wanted to control her life. He is more like a doctor than her husband to her.
The Yellow Wallpaper is a very interesting story. Talks about a mentally ill woman and her husband who is a doctor. As a doctor he convinced her that she needs to rest and to stay in the room in order to get well.“ The doctor” don’t listen to her when she said to him that she is feeling better he never heard her, she wanted to change the room because she thought that the room was a place that gives her depression, and make her feel sick. She seems like a woman completely depending on her husband. The things get worse when she start to obsess with the wallpaper. Maybe the wallpaper wants to represent the time or the way the women’s want to escape for the “control” of the men. Maybe the wallpaper want to represent also the difficult life of a woman, who doesn’t have voice and who can’t control their life’s .He made her believe that she is sick, maybe that’s because he wanted to control her life. He is more like a doctor than her husband to her.
Tuesday, 11 December 2018
Two-part reading response: " The Yellow Wallpaper" (Charlotte Perkins Stetson).
Two-part reading response:
The Yellow Wallpaper
In the Yellow Wallpaper the narrator is a woman who suffers
from depression following the birth of her child. Her husband John, who is a
physician prescribes her rest and takes her to a house in the countryside as
her treatment requires, living in peace and fresh air. John thinks that this is
the best thing for her. He prohibits her from writing because this leads her to
increase her imagination. She is not allowed to go out and she cannot stand to
visit her baby, her husband has decided a nurse to take care baby. So, the
narrator initially heads her husband’s advice. Now she spends all day in a room
and there is Jane, John’s sister who takes care after narrator because John is
all day out dealing with his cases. She stands alone in the ugly room, staring
at the room’s yellow wallpaper which leads her condition deteriorates. She does
not like that house , it is too big, especially the room, he wants to leave the
house but John makes her believe that this was the perfect place for her
treatment and he cannot leave because he has rent the house now and because
there is the place where he works. The narrator is forced by her husband to
believe she is really sick and cannot stand around people, she is isolated from
the society, but she really want to enjoy fresh air or going to visit her
cousins. She is really disturbed by the yellow wallpaper in the bedroom because
she identifies the woman in the wallpaper with herself, feeling like in the prison,
trying to escape to find themselves. Finally in an effort to release the woman,
the narrator locked the door, tears down the wallpaper. When John comes to take
her home, he finds her creeping around the room and faints.
Reading the first lines makes me think about a woman who
falls in depression as much woman suffers following the birth of their child,
and her husband who fortunately is a physician takes care after his woman. He
is doing the best for his wife but in fact he is doing better for his benefits.
I do not think that living a life where I am told what to wear, what to eat,
what to think and how to act is for my best or just because the person who is
forced me really loves me. Here we are talking about a couple who are married
and the husband, John, acts like a mother or father with their children rather
than with his wife. She is forced to do what her husband wants just because he
knows what the best is for her and because he loves her. In the first line to
the first page the narrator state “John laughs at me, of course, one expects
that in a marriage”. Of course not, everyone’s expectations in a marriage are
quite different, you expect a person not to judge you, let you do things that
makes you happy without preventing your dreams and imaginations as John is doing
, and makes you feel comfort, protected and staying with you when you need.
John as a husband expect a just to have a housewife but this is like being a
slave for a man and there is mentioned John’s sister, Jane as a perfect
housekeeper and nurse and hoped for no better profession . This is the best
profession according man, but this is not right to expect women just to be good
in house chores and taking care after children.
At some point the narrator claims “He is very careful and loving and
hardly lets me stir without a special direction” but this is not a sign of love
or caring, unfortunately, this is just a way to say that women cannot do
anything without the approval of their husbands. Love is just a justification
to let women to think that this is done for the sake of love. None has the
right to state that women are not as smart and powerful as man to act how they
want. John is doing that because he uses her critic health condition to force
his wife to stay in bed and to be quiet to become better and return home; by
doing this he is controlling her life even more. Fortunately, in the end she
realized who she was. Looking the woman in the wallpaper she gained her
identity and her self-confidence. This comes to the conclusion that just
because you are a woman didn’t mean that you have to act a certain way.
Tow part reading response: “The yellow wallpaper” (Charlotte Perkins Stetson)
Plot
“The yellow wallpaper”, which takes place in the late 1800,
is set on an isolated country where the narrator and her husband, John, a
physician, are living for the summer. The narrator has given birth and has come
down with a ‘nervous condition’. She describes her situation, which involves
the elimination of all stimuli, including interaction with people, writing and
even seeing her own child. Her husband’s sister has come to help her with
domestic tasks. Writing secretly, the narrator tells the story of her isolation
in the room in which she passes all time. The room has shabby yellow wallpaper
with a complex pattern she finds irritating. Weeks pass, and she finds that her
anxiety and depression have increased. She asks John to leave the house, but he
doesn’t accept her request. He takes all decisions for everything, and takes
care and loves the narrator. The narrator’s treatment requires that she do
almost nothing active, and she is forbidden from working and writing. She is
focused on the wallpaper in her room, which begins to seem ugly and oddly
threatening. As her obsession grows, the sub-pattern of the wallpaper become
clear and begins to resemble a woman ‘stooping down and creeping’ behind the
main pattern. The wallpaper dominates
the narrator’s imagination. She becomes
possessive and secretive, hiding her interest in the paper. Mistaking the
narrator’s fixation, John thinks she is getting better. The narrator suspects that John and his
sister are aware of her obsession, and she resolves to destroy the wallpaper.
The next day when she was alone, she tears at the paper in order to free the
woman, who seems to struggle in order to come out. As she completes this task, she begins to
identify herself as the woman, and creeps along the floor, following a layer on
the wallpaper. John finds her in this state and faints. She creeps over him and
continues on her path.
My opinion
Imaging living a life where you are told what to do and how
to act, that is how women used to live their life, being told what to do all
the time, during 1990’s. At the beginning of the story the narrator is stuck in
a world where women are looked down on. I think that the reason why the writer
does not refer to the narrator with a name is because she represents all women,
who can identify themselves in this story. The narrator’s husband acts more
like a father or mother figure; he shows his love in a dysfunctional way. He
takes all the decision instead of his wife and treats her like an object. In
this way the story gives a bad message, men take the decisions and women have
to obey these decisions, which can be taken as a good one from the others. The
yellow wallpaper in the narrator’s room is a clear representation of women in
that general time trying to escape from what society is presenting them to be. This
clearly represents the difficult life of women. The best part is the end of the
story when the narrator tries to help the women in the wallpaper, because this
mean that women help each other and together they can change the isolate life
they lead. Reading this story is like watching
a horror film, but compering the way that women were treated before with the
way they are treated now, makes me hope that things are improving for the
better. We are all equal.
TWO PART READING RESPONSE: THE YELLOW WALLPAPER (CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN)
Plot
" The yellow wallpaper " is a book written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. This is a story of a women and her husband named John. The narrator begins her journal by marveling at the grandeur of the house and grounds her husband has taken for their summer vocation. She describes it in romantic terms or even a haunted house and wonders how they were able to afford it. She is suffering form "nervous depression" and of her marriage. She complains that her husband John, who is also her doctor belittles both her illness and thoughts in general. Her treatment requires that she do almost nothing active, and also forbidden from working and writing. The narrator begins describing house. She decribes elements such "ring and things" also the yellow wallpaper in the bedroom, which is strange. Soon the yellow wallpaper dominates the narrator's imagination. By the end of the story she is hopelessly insane.
Reading Response
This is a story of a women who suffers from depression after giving birth to her child. Even the closest people for her as her husband John do not let her take care for her child and she is used to stay all the day and night in her bedroom alone. The significance of the story introduces the issues of 'women' in society. The most important theme of the story is "Feminism" which brought a little bit of the idea of gender equality in 19th century. In this story the women is limitied to do things hy her husband. It was that time when 'men' had the "power". In my opinion, even the mentality of differing women from man is present should change. We are equal.
" The yellow wallpaper " is a book written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. This is a story of a women and her husband named John. The narrator begins her journal by marveling at the grandeur of the house and grounds her husband has taken for their summer vocation. She describes it in romantic terms or even a haunted house and wonders how they were able to afford it. She is suffering form "nervous depression" and of her marriage. She complains that her husband John, who is also her doctor belittles both her illness and thoughts in general. Her treatment requires that she do almost nothing active, and also forbidden from working and writing. The narrator begins describing house. She decribes elements such "ring and things" also the yellow wallpaper in the bedroom, which is strange. Soon the yellow wallpaper dominates the narrator's imagination. By the end of the story she is hopelessly insane.
Reading Response
This is a story of a women who suffers from depression after giving birth to her child. Even the closest people for her as her husband John do not let her take care for her child and she is used to stay all the day and night in her bedroom alone. The significance of the story introduces the issues of 'women' in society. The most important theme of the story is "Feminism" which brought a little bit of the idea of gender equality in 19th century. In this story the women is limitied to do things hy her husband. It was that time when 'men' had the "power". In my opinion, even the mentality of differing women from man is present should change. We are equal.
TWO PART READING RESPONSE: The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
READING RESPONSE
A reader response about Charlotte Perkins Gilman's short story "The Yellow Wallpaper" published first in the New England Magazine.
The yellow wall paper is an interesting story which has a lot to discuss. The story talks about a mentally ill woman and that her husband has to take care after her. As a doctor John has convinced his wife that she needs to rest in order to get rid of her depression, and that 'as a doctor' he knows well how to heal her. The situation worsened in the moment that her husband John didn't heard her ideas on feeling a way better, such as writing or hanging out would be a better cure for her mental state. He never heard her even when she asked to change her room which was her biggest problem, just because he thought that her requests were coming by her depression, strange ones for him, but completely needed for her. It seems like woman when they got married start to depend completely to their man, like they can guide her as their own, as a leader. He was leading her till she started to believe that she was sick for real and powerless enough to control her own life ,where it completely violates her rights on making decisions about herself. Even thought she continues feeling scared by her room especially the yellow wallpaper, he dismisses her fears. I think she became more obsessed with the wallpaper till she started to distrust her husband ,till she..became hopelessly insane. And I wonder why John as 'being a doctor' didn't knew that the yellow color abrasive when overused, and that gives rise to fear, anxiety, and provoke depression. She closed the story by telling her husband "I've got out at least,in spite of you and Jane, And I've pulled off most of the paper so you can't pull be back!" And with this phrase I think that she is saying both of them that she is free and that his way of healing her failed. Coming in a conclusion that even 'SHE' knows her way, her best. Even 'SHE' has a voice to be heard, an idea to putted on action, a thought, a feeling as a Man, and that they should be treated equal as individuals, human beings.
TWO PART READING RESPONSE: The Yellow Wallpaper (Charlotte Perkins Gilman)
Plot
In The yellow wallpaper we peek into a fragment of a diary. The narrator and protagonist tell us that for three months and due to her illness, she has rented a house on the outskirts of a city with her sister-in-law, her husband and her newborn son.
She has an affectation in the nerves for which her husband, a doctor, has prescribed absolute rest and isolation of all possible stimulations. Therefore, they are installed in a spacious room actually their children’s room. She spends her hours in a bed, with no distraction, only watching the wallpaper: an intricate yellow paper with filigree with no sense or symmetry.
The protagonist seems to start obsessing with that role that in its idiosyncrasy, is oppressive, unsettling and steals her sleep. Understanding the drawing of the paper, which is torned in some areas, occupies her hours and absorbs all her energy till a delirious final.
My opinion
The protagonist tells us everything, both for what she writes and for what she is silent.
The few characters that appear in the story are described between the lines, but in an obvious way, especially through the narrator's silences.
Gilman describes, what depression is like. She does not name it, but she is very aware of what she feels and has a great intuition of what she needs to recover. However, the men of her life, mainly her husband ,the doctor, decide not to listen to her and thus,guide her as if she were an irresponsible child, again and again towards the yellow wallpaper.
The story is not closed and does not provide answers: does the protagonist go crazy and are all her imaginations?
I Think that “The yellow wallpaper”, in spite of being so brief, is a masterful story; concise and brilliant.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman is a great author,
in a subtle but accurate way. She focuses on a few delicate topics: the submission to the husband's wishes, the presence of a baby that can not be occupied, the inability of her husband to understand why she is not happy .
Monday, 10 December 2018
TWO PART READING RESPONSE: The Yellow Wallpaper (Charlotte Perkins Gilman)
PLOT
"The Yellow Wallpaper."
The narrator along
with her husband John, are renting a beautiful, secluded estate for the summer.
The narrator suffers from what her husband believes is a "temporary
nervous depression." He orders her to rest as much as possible, and picks
a room in the house for the two of them. The narrator feels vaguely
uncomfortable with the estate, but obeys her husband’s decision for the two of
them to stay there. She also obeys him when he chooses a large, airy room on
the top floor instead of the smaller, prettier room on the ground floor that
she prefers. She pretty much obeys her husband when it comes to everything. Since
the hubby is a doctor, he wins all their arguments. The narrator would like to
spend her time writing, but her husband, brother, and assorted other family
member think this is a terrible idea: she's on a rest cure, which means resting
instead of doing pretty much anything else. She basically just has to lie
around and rest. So a quick recap: The narrator is living in a house in which
she feels uncomfortable, in a room she hasn’t picked out, and she's forbidden
from engaging in the one activity she enjoys. No wonder she becomes absolutely
obsessed with the yellow wallpaper in her room—she's bored out of her mind. She
begins fanatically tracing the pattern of the wallpaper and soon becomes
convinced that there's a woman trapped within the paper. Shortly before the
narrator is due to depart the house she decides that she has to free the
trapped woman by stripping the wallpaper off. When her husband comes into the
room, the narrator declares that she is now free. When he saw his wife his wife
creeping around the room peeling the paper off the walls, John faints. The
narrator pays no attention to the unconscious hubby, and continues creeping
around the room, and the story end in this way.
READING RESPONSE
'The yellow Wallpaper' written by Charlotte Perkins
Gilman is a story of sick women. She is locked because she had mental disease.
Her passion is to write different stories, and this makes me to think that she
is intelligent, but she is the victim of those who are closer to her because
they have to care for her. The significance of the story is extraordinary as it
introduce the fundamental issues of 'woman's place' in society. Feminism in the
19th century was the issue that brought a little bit of the idea of gender
equality. The way the woman was treated
in the 19th century is 70% different from today. At that time, the wife and
husband were not equal to each other. Women were limited to specific roles. The
Society usually held out a dominant role that led women to listen and follow their
spouse. During that time the woman was at the end of the social class. The
regular family was the one in which the husband commanded. Nowadays, the still
woman does not have the same rights with her husband. This reality makes me
feel bad because I am a woman of this society and I also love my own rights and
that reality makes me to struggle even more. In this text it is rumored that
the protagonist was intelligent to write, why she does not raise her voice? This
question is the dilemma that I have with the author of this book because we are
studying to be as cultured as well as smart and not to be as ignorant as when
we was without studying. Women are intelligent, smart and not mad.
TWO PART READING RESPONSE: The Life You Save May Be Your Own (Flannery O’Connor)
Plot
One evening, near sunset, Tom T. Shiftlet arrives at the desolate farmhouse of Mrs. Lucynell Crater and her nearly thirty-two-year-old, deaf-mute daughter, also named Lucynell. During their conversation (Mrs.Crater and Mr. Shiflet) Shiflet spots an old automobile. It became immediately his goal and accepts the purpose of Mrs. Lucynell to stay in her farm. But her purpose was intentionally made because she sees the one-armed man as someone who will make repairs at her farm and as a potential husband for her deaf daughter. Mrs. Lucynell after being convinced that the man is trustful, proposes him an agreement: she will give him the car, a coat of paint, some money for the honeymoon if he accepts to marry her girl. Victorious now, he accepts her agreement and after mends the car the girl and Shiflet get married. Then they leave for their honeymoon but Shiflet abandons his sleeping wife in a restaurant with the excuse she is a hitchhiker. Perhaps somewhat depressed by his actions, and somehow influenced by the road signs which announce, "Drive carefully. The life you save may be your own," Shifilet, stops and picks up a young boy who is hitchhiking. Evidently convinced that the boy has run away from home, Shiftlet begins to praise the virtues of his "old mother" whom he supposedly left. As Shiftlet becomes more eloquent, the boy, in apparent disgust, condemns all mothers in general and leaps from the slowly moving car. Briefly shocked, Shiftlet offers up a short prayer and then races an approaching shower into Mobile.
My opinion
This story is very disgusting for me. Both Mrs. Lucynel and Mr. Shiflet are trying to benefit from each other. They are so scrupulous that they don't think at all about the life of the deaf girl. Her mom, desperate for a son-in-low, purposes such a stupid agreement to the man. She equals her girl,who initially says she wouldn't give up for anything in this world, with that old rusty automobile and a little amount of money. That just isn't fair!! Furthermore, blinded from her "goal" she doesn't sees the goal of Shiflet; his only intention was the car. This man who initially compares women with trash, accepts to marry this girl, who he doesn't know at all. Her mother, thinking that she would be perfect as a wife because she can't speak and hear, can't make her voice be heard, and just obeys offers her to someone she doesn't know well. And where is her right to do so?? Well she did this and the man accepted only to fulfill his ambition, but what about the way the man treats the girl?! It is unacceptable. He abandons her, treats her like a tool or like an old thing that has to be thrown away. For him, she is just the tool he needs to achieve his goal. And this is just wrong; they both treat the girl very bad. They profit from her inabilities and decide whatever they want to do with her life. Where is the compassion of the mother and "until the death separates us" of the husband here?
This story has something true in it, because even nowadays many girls are treated in this way. WOMEN ARE NOT FOR SALE. They are human beings with the right to live and to decide on their own for their lives!!!
One evening, near sunset, Tom T. Shiftlet arrives at the desolate farmhouse of Mrs. Lucynell Crater and her nearly thirty-two-year-old, deaf-mute daughter, also named Lucynell. During their conversation (Mrs.Crater and Mr. Shiflet) Shiflet spots an old automobile. It became immediately his goal and accepts the purpose of Mrs. Lucynell to stay in her farm. But her purpose was intentionally made because she sees the one-armed man as someone who will make repairs at her farm and as a potential husband for her deaf daughter. Mrs. Lucynell after being convinced that the man is trustful, proposes him an agreement: she will give him the car, a coat of paint, some money for the honeymoon if he accepts to marry her girl. Victorious now, he accepts her agreement and after mends the car the girl and Shiflet get married. Then they leave for their honeymoon but Shiflet abandons his sleeping wife in a restaurant with the excuse she is a hitchhiker. Perhaps somewhat depressed by his actions, and somehow influenced by the road signs which announce, "Drive carefully. The life you save may be your own," Shifilet, stops and picks up a young boy who is hitchhiking. Evidently convinced that the boy has run away from home, Shiftlet begins to praise the virtues of his "old mother" whom he supposedly left. As Shiftlet becomes more eloquent, the boy, in apparent disgust, condemns all mothers in general and leaps from the slowly moving car. Briefly shocked, Shiftlet offers up a short prayer and then races an approaching shower into Mobile.
My opinion
This story is very disgusting for me. Both Mrs. Lucynel and Mr. Shiflet are trying to benefit from each other. They are so scrupulous that they don't think at all about the life of the deaf girl. Her mom, desperate for a son-in-low, purposes such a stupid agreement to the man. She equals her girl,who initially says she wouldn't give up for anything in this world, with that old rusty automobile and a little amount of money. That just isn't fair!! Furthermore, blinded from her "goal" she doesn't sees the goal of Shiflet; his only intention was the car. This man who initially compares women with trash, accepts to marry this girl, who he doesn't know at all. Her mother, thinking that she would be perfect as a wife because she can't speak and hear, can't make her voice be heard, and just obeys offers her to someone she doesn't know well. And where is her right to do so?? Well she did this and the man accepted only to fulfill his ambition, but what about the way the man treats the girl?! It is unacceptable. He abandons her, treats her like a tool or like an old thing that has to be thrown away. For him, she is just the tool he needs to achieve his goal. And this is just wrong; they both treat the girl very bad. They profit from her inabilities and decide whatever they want to do with her life. Where is the compassion of the mother and "until the death separates us" of the husband here?
This story has something true in it, because even nowadays many girls are treated in this way. WOMEN ARE NOT FOR SALE. They are human beings with the right to live and to decide on their own for their lives!!!
Sunday, 9 December 2018
To achieve gender equality, we must first tackle our unconscious biases
https://www.google.al/amp/s/theconversation.com/amp/to-achieve-gender-equality-we-must-first-tackle-our-unconscious-biases-92848
United Nations: Gender equality and women's empowerment
https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/gender-equality/
Saturday, 8 December 2018
Wednesday, 5 December 2018
Two-part reading response
Roast Beef, Medium: The Business Adventures of Emma McChesney by Edna Ferber
The Life You Save May Be Your Own, by Flannery O'Connor
Tuesday, 4 December 2018
Using women's body for ads and selling porno are the same
The above advertisement is about a spray for the skin. It says the spray makes your skin smooth, soft and fresh like an ice-cream. And the woman's body is compared with that ice-cream.
Seeing it from a different view, it means that if you use this spray, your skin will feel, look or taste like an ice-cream and it is compared with the woman.
So, the woman is compared with a kind of "food", like an sexual object to attrack customers' attention.
"THE SKIN IS READY TO EAT?!"
Really?!
Using women's body in order to earn more money or to make your mark famous you should be condemned because it IS the same with selling porno.
Saturday, 1 December 2018
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