Fredrick Douglas

The Yellow Wall Paper

2005-01-24T19:44:00.001-08:00

The Yellow wall paper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman is dark and sinister for it's time. This narrative about a young womans plunge into insanity and gives an erie glimps into the mind. Her over protective husband, Dr. John is there the whole time to keep her safe and locked up. The only thing he doesn't anticipate is that the captivity would be the key to her illness. With nothing left other then the walls to look at the narratior begins to go insane and begins giving crazed discriptions of the walls of her bedroom throughout the narrative. The young wife and mother begins to see vivid hallucanations of an old woman. At first the images are concealed within the walls, but then they become so frequent that she can't stop seeing the woman, untill, eventually, she becomes the woman.

The Yellow Wall Paper

2005-01-24T19:44:00.000-08:00

The Yellow wall paper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman is a dark-edged narrative about a young woman who goes to stay at a summer home with her family. This run down estate with it's erie demeanor sets the stage for the steady digression into insanity. When the wife of the house begins to document her own insane ranting, she gives the reader a vivid description of the captive life she was forced to take part in. This captivity manifested into mass hallucinations involving an old woman creeping about. The old woman, we come to learn is the reflection of the young woman's characteristics. Eventually her insanity leaves her with more clarity then her captor. Yellow wall paper, good stuff.

Frederick Douglas

2005-01-24T19:19:00.000-08:00

The Frederick Douglas piece was a great inspiration for the human spirit. Coming up from almost nothing, to becoming one of the most influential Americans in history. Douglas's narrative told his gripping story coming up as a slave in the south. To eventually being free, not only in his physical body also his mind. When I mention his mind I just don't simply mean his consciousness, but his intellectual thought. This freedom of the mind was also a burden to Douglas. In his narrative Douglas gives us the truth without pulling a single punch. His stories give an in depth look into the sorrow that is slavery.