Thanatopsis Questions (Kristen and Brooke)

1.  thanatos ("death") and opsis ("sight"). The poem is about death and seeing nature as something that needs to be protected.

2. Shroud- a burial sheet that covers the body, Pall- a cloth spread over a coffin, Narrow House- the grave, Sepulcher- a small room or monument, cut in rock or built of stone, in which a dead person is laid or buried. These words make you think of death, maybe even a funeral. They add a comforting feeling that comes with death because it is by nature.

3. This poem is about both life and death. Death is a part of everyday life. While overall it seems like it is more about death, but since death is a part of life this poem is about both.

4. The tone at the beginning is forbidding and then it shifts to being comforting when you get to line 30: "Shall send his roots abroad and pierce thy mold."

5. Elegy- a poem of serious reflection, typically a lament for the dead. The conventions of the elegy is the shift from mournful to comfort.

6. Some images from the poem would be sad and depressing or dark and gloomy. Also it would have the setting in nature because the poem is related to the transcendentalist. 

7. This poem is an example of historical piece because it was made in the early 19th century. This is a romantic poem because it reflects on personal feelings and focuses on the supernatural and talks about death and gloom. This is a Calvinist poem because Bryant was in the Calvinist environment.

"Sinner in the Hands of an Angry God." By: Brooke and Kristen

1. They took our land and took over churches to change them.
2. "Natural Men" means all men before they gain riches and power.
3. Abate also means to pacify.
4. Edwards begins three clauses with "There is" to continue a comparison.
5. "That lake of burning brimstone" is used to scare the congregation. It adds emphasis and changes the meaning to the sentence. "It is a great furnace of wrath, a wide and bottomless pit, full of the fire of wrath" is another appositive in the text.
6. The rhetorical effect of using "and" over and over again is to exaggerate every single effect.
7. Edwards uses semicolons to connect the series of independent clauses rather than dividing them into separate sentences because he wants to show that they connect. He repeats "not willingly" because he wants to exaggerate that he was not willingly doing all of these things.
8. He develops the simile in paragraph five by saying it is rising higher and higher, and increasing more and more.The imagery is bold. He uses it to give you more of a visual on what is happening.
9. The things he is talking about and describing is towards the people who are still sinners, and it will show the outcome.
10. Edward is represents ethos, and how is is strict and tries to scare his audience into his ways. His attitude and speech to the audience is representing logos. His audience and their fear represents pathos.
11. The tone stays the same throughout the story. The authors tone shows that he has a very strict attitude towards the subject. He believes that God is holding you over a fiery pit and that when you sin God loosens his grip on you, making you fall closer and closer into the pit.
12. Hearing it helped the dramatic part of it, reading it helped them understand it more.
13. He says powerful things that put the fear of God in them.
14. When he said they would burn in the fiery pit of hell if they sinned.
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Theme of "The Yellow Wallpaper"

Theme of “The Yellow Wallpaper”

            “The Yellow Wallpaper” has multiple themes but I think that the most prominent theme is the way that women are viewed in marriage. In the 1900s, when this short story was written, women did not yet have any rights. The men were the dominant role in everything, from jobs to relationships. In respectable marriages the woman always obeyed her husbands wishes and I think that this is what the author was trying to get across in the story. The author believes that in a relationship like this, where the women practically live to make the men happy, it can effect the development of the woman. Women in the 19^th century were stripped of their own personal development because they were expected to carry out the domestic functions in the marriage. The men were in charge of going out and working and providing the women and children a place to live, and that is what the narrator’s husband, John, believes that he is doing.  The wives are so wrapped up in making their husbands happy that they have no time for themselves, and in return they are driving themselves insane. This gender division is making women ignorant to the world around them. They have no achievements of their own (little or no education and no special skills). Living to please her husband made it to where the narrator could not develop in her mind or as a person in general.

Although John thought that he was helping his wife, he was doing exactly the opposite. John was belittling her, and only making her illness worse. He trapped her inside of herself, a woman that would never be freed from her thoughts. John thought that he knew all there was to know about his wife’s illness because he was a physician. Though I believe that John truly wanted his wife to be healthy, he was driving her mad. Because of him, she lost touch with the world around her. He would not let her out of her room, he would not allow her to be with her child, he would not allow her to have visitors, he would not allow her to write in her diary, and he would not allow her to do small everyday things. She was secluded because of him. He patronized her, in subtle ways that ended up being major.  He denied her request to switch rooms and to remove the wallpaper. He called her names that he may not have meant to be hurtful, but that is how they came off. John used his role as husband and doctor as a role of authority and ignores that his wife is not only his wife, but is a human being with thoughts, feelings, and issues of her own. When he ignored that she was a real person too, he kept her inside of herself and drove her crazy. In her confusion between reality and fantasy she became caught up in the woman in the wallpaper. All of this insanity is due to the "subordination of women in marriage. " (sparknotes) 

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Introduction to Me

       My name is Kristen Jo Kaylor. I'm 17 years old. I have two older brothers, Matthew(24) and Evan(19). Evan goes to UNCG and Matthew does Appalachian State online but lives in Wilmington with his girlfriend, Suzanne, who goes to UNCW. I live with my parents on a farm. We have dogs, birds, chickens, cats, cows, and a pony. My dad owns and manages Wood Technology of Conover and my mom works at ECCCM. My parents started dating when my mom was 13 and my dad was 16. They have been happily married for 26 years. I was born and raised here in Conover, North Carolina. I have lived in the same house for my whole life. I love my home but I am beyond ready to go to college. My goal is to get a volleyball and/or academic scholarship to a D1 or D2 college. I play and coach volleyball for Carolina Crush Volleyball Club. I want to go to college somewhere in North Carolina or a neighboring state so that I can stay close to my family. I went to Concordia Christian Day School from Pre-K until 8th grade. I have gone to Concordia Lutheran Church since I was born. I was baptized as an infant and confirmed in 9th grade. Volleyball is my passion, but God comes first.