Trouble with the midterm

Hey everyone I have a few questions about the midterm. First is do I need a title and my information on the left for the different papers? If so that's cool it will take up more space haha. But also in page numbering I do not number the first page still right? and does the Works Cited page have its own age number? Also lastly (if that is even a word) is anyone doing Polonius for part II? If so, please write me or page me on D2L i got some more questions lol. Okay thank you all and best of luck to everyone...

Chopin Thesis Activity

Thesis #2: By contrasting images of life with those of death throughout “The Story of an Hour,” Kate Chopin highlights the struggle of a person imprisoned by societal pressures and thereby kept from fully being alive.

Example for Thesis #1:

“She could see in the open square before her house the tops of trees that were all aquiver with the new spring life. The delicious breath of rain was in the air.” (Paragraph 5) Chopin uses this example to express how Mrs. Mallard feels when first hearing the news of her husband’s death. Instead of feeling dark and death like, she feels life in the air. This feeling of freedom from being a single widowed woman shows that the expectations of married women in the 1900s are an oppression of Mrs. Mallard’s desired freedo

SSRJ 2 D Walker

SSRJ # 2 D. Walker

·         This piece was deep, it is good how the narrator tried to help the less fortunate with his knowledge in the medical field. However, I feel like he was seeking forgiveness from someone outside of himself. When in fact, he should have focused on forgiving himself internally. The war hero with PDSS and has internal issues with it reminds me of a street gangster. Like the war hero, the gangster has murdered, killed people with drugs, etc. In the beginning they both think they are right, fighting for country, gang and/or family. The soldier’s, in both scenarios, still do not know why they have to kill, they search for answers and find nothing. I know many war veterans and gangsters and their internal conflicts are mirror images.

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            In this piece Walker uses the plot, mainly the climax to illustrate the theme of seeking forgiveness. During the whole story, the narrator is seeking answers to why they fought this war and mainly for forgiveness for his crimes, specifically the decapitation of a farmer. The war veteran used smoking marijuana, studying drawing and various jobs to try to distract and forget about the mental images burned into his head. Eventually, his search for forgiveness leads him to repairing lost thumbs on a North Vietnamese war veteran. The narrator wants to fix Dinh’s thumbs, feeling it will help repair damage done by a war he fought in. the failed surgery is used to show that fixing Dinh’s thumbs will not replace the dead farmer or young girls innocence. He was suppose to fail. This way he can have that plane ride home, feeling just like coming home from the war. The narrator needs to seek internal forgiveness, not approval from a doctor in Vietnam, his own family, or whoever. Once he realizes what he did is done and he cannot take it back, he will find the forgiveness and psychological peace he is seeking throughout the plot.

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      The only comment I have is that in interpreting this piece, me and many others cannot ever fully understand the depth of the mental scars he has from the narrator’s war experience. I am assuming most people have not decapitated people, but I have seen gangsters shoot people so close to me that blood splattered onto my shirt. As a young man seeing this I had trouble comprehending the meaning of war, guns, violence, etc. So the soldier in our story as well as any war veterans should never be judged because while we do homework and read short stories in a peaceful library soldiers are experiencing these things all over the world.

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SSRJ # 1 Faulkner

SSRJ # 1: Faulkner

·         This piece was suspenseful; in the first read Miss Emily was a typical old lady but in rereading her mysterious ways was creepy. The plot was just good, it was typical as far as order of plot parts but each part had its own significance and made the climax/conclusion pull me in. The only comparison I have to this story is the old lady from these apartments when I was young, around 9 to 10. She was very mysterious and we all thought she was an alien but she was just an old lady, living alone, never talking to us but would stare at us out of her upstairs window all day.

·         In “A Rose for Emily” the author, Faulkner, uses point of view, through the narrator, to make it more difficult to choose whether or not you like or dislike Emily. The point of view seems to be from the townsfolk. However, when the “ladies around town” seem to always pity Emily by saying “Poor Emily” it gives a feeling of gossip. This makes the reader think the townsfolk, or just this particular group of ladies, are jealous, envious, or just plain haters. Emily is still a crazy old lady, however the “hating” from the narrative point of view, you want to take Miss Emily’s side and deny all the people’s outrageous rumors. This made me support Emily and want her not to be a murdering psycho lady but just a regular crazy old lady. So when she dies , I hope the secret room has something to push towards her sanity or support a logical reason for insanity. Instead, there is a dead husband and evidence she laid next to him. She is crazy! This use of point of view took me for a ride in this story.

·         The only comment I have is that this story was nice, I do not read a lot, especially in different fields of literature. However, this short story was very good at showing that even a boring setting can provide a good story to amuse my very short attention span.

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