Choose two of the prompts below to complete the Module 2 Writing Assignment, referring to the Literary Analysis Assignment Rubric Each answer should be approximately 300-400 words (2/3 to 1 page long). Please copy and paste the writing prompt before each of your responses.
- In what ways might one perceive Maggie as confined by her environment? How is Maggies potential confinement similar to/different from Edna’s confinement?
- Why is the theater so inspiring and thought-provoking for Maggie? What significance does the theater have in terms of Maggies development through the story?
- While both Maggie and The Yellow Wall-paper reveal environmental effects, the point-of-view also plays a major role. In what way(s) does the first-person, diary-like POV in The Yellow Wall-paper contribute to the effectiveness of the story in terms of showing us the effects of environment on the narrator?
- In Londons To Build a Fire, we find a main character who strugglesquite literallyagainst nature and his environment. Does the narrator seem to have any more control over his fate than the other protagonists in the Naturalist unit? Why?/Why not?
- In Why I Wrote The Yellow Wall-paper, Gilman explains her personal connections to the fictional short story but explains that, in The Yellow Wall-paper, there were embellishments and additions to help carry out the ideal and that she never had hallucinations or objections to [her] mural decorations (856). Discuss 1-2 such embellishments or additions and explain how they help to carry out the ideal that Gilman spells out in Why I Wrote The Yellow Wall-paper.
- The following selections from the Realism and Naturalism section:
- William Dean Howells, From Editors Study
- Jack London, From What Life Means to Me
- Stephen Crane
- Stephen Crane: 1871-1900 (Note: this is a biography of the author).
- Maggie: A Girl of the Streets
- Jack London
- Jack London: 1876-1916 (Note: this is a biography of the author).
- To Build a Fire
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman: 1860-1935 (Note: this is a biography of the author).
- The Yellow Wall-paper
- Why I Wrote The Yellow Wall-paper?
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