Choose one from the following questions to write an essay (200-250 words). Cite texts to support your argument.
1) In “The Lady with the Dog,” the characters’ responses to their environment are integral to the action of the story and its effect on the reader. Describe the significance of various “settings” used by Chekhov to symbolize the protagonists’ inner psychology.
2) In “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings,” why does the spider girl attract more people than the angel?
3) In “The Yellow Wallpaper,” what’s the secret the woman discovers behind the patterns of the wallpaper? Why does Charlotte Perkins Gilman make her narrator go crazy at the end of the story?
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Hi!I'm Bruce(49902059).I choose the question 2 to answer.
First,in the beginning of the angel's appearance in paragraph one,Marquez says that the angel is an old man,very old man right away,responds to the title.Next,in paragraph two,we can see the description of the angel is "like a ragpicker","almost absolutely bald",and "has very few teeth".Most important of all,the language he uses is so strange that can't be understood by people.Briefly,the angel is very old,unsightly,and hard to understand.
On the other hand,although Marquez doesn't tell us the spider girl is pretty or ugly,but we can infer that she is probably beautiful than the angel.Then,we know that the admission to see her is not only less than the admission to see the angel(This is not the fault of him.He was controlled by Pelayo and his wife!),but people were permitted to ask her all manner of questions about absurd state and to examine her up and down so that no one would ever doubt the truth of her horror from paragraph ten.Afterwards,in the same paragraph ,from her sincere affliction with which she recounted the details of her misfortune,all people are able to acquire the lessons from her story easily.
In conclusion,most of people like the person who is good-looking.And most of people all wish someone who can give them simple and clear answers when they have questions,even though the complex answers are the truth.That's why the spider girl attracts more people than the angel.
Hi, professor! I am Jenny (49902047), and I choose the question 3 to answer.
In “The Yellow Wallpaper,” with nothing to stimulate the narrator, she cannot help focus on the pattern and color of the wallpaper, and discovers that there are women creeping around behind the patterns of the wallpaper. Charlotte Perkins Gilman makes her narrator go crazy at the end of the story is because she wants to reflect the phenomenon which turns up not only her but also the women in the nineteenth century who were forbidden from working and they were asked to live as what people expect.
Mrs. Gilman tries to express that this patriarchal society has strangled women’s thought. Because men have already controlled everything, the only thing which women need to do is follow the society rules that women should be powerless and innocent rather than having intellectual activities. Such as the narrator’s husband asks her to lie on bed and stop writing, and treats her like a little girl. Most of women follow the society rules without a doubt. For example, John’s sister is a perfect and enthusiastic housekeeper, and she thinks it is the writing which made the narrator sick.
However, Mrs. Gilman has a conflict inside and then realizes if women just follow the society expectations, they will totally lose themselves or like the narrator in this story go insane. Therefore, like the narrator tears the front wallpaper (bars) down, Mrs. Gilman wants to get out from the forbiddance. “I’ve got out at last, in spite of you and Jane. And I’ve pulled off most of the paper, so you can’t put me back!” is what Mrs. Gilman wants to shout out loudly, and tells the idea to all women that they shouldn’t be confined any more.
2) In “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings,” why does the spider girl attract more people than the angel?
The angel and the spider girl these two characters in the story respectively represent quite different meanings. The angel who was found at the beginning of the story provides the readers with an awkward impression. Generally speaking, angels often represent beautiful images while in this story, the author made a difference. He described the old man with enormous wings with a sense of age and disease, and made the angel an unapproachable and supernatural figure. For instance, the angel speaks the language which is known by no one. Besides, he is virtually motionless to other people.
To go so far as to the girl who was changed into a spider for having disobeyed her parents, she can answer many things from people in the village like all manner of questions about her absurd state. The spider girl represents a sense of fickleness; however, she attracts more people than the angel. I think it’s the human nature that causes the result why she crushed the angel. In the text, it says that the strange consolation miracles which were more like mocking fun ruined the angel’s reputation. People usually tend to accept things which are clear or easy to understand. More specifically, human beings prefer earthly and superficial stuff so that they often refuse to meditate something full of deep and profound meanings. As a result, the angel and the spider girl symbolize the opposite meanings which are related to human nature, and tell us why the spider girl attracts more people than the angel.
Hi, professor Hsu. I'm Una(49902003). I choose question 2 to answer.
In “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings,” the paragraph 10 said” The admission to see her (the spider girl) was not only less than the admission to see the angel, but people were permitted to ask her all manner of questions about her absurd state and to examine her up and down so that no one would ever doubt the truth of her horrors.” It reveals that compares with the “haughty angel”, people could get some information from the spider girl. She recounted the details of her misfortune and expressed her sincere affliction. However, the old angel was always just steady and gave no response. It is obvious that the spider girl is more interesting than the old angel. More over, the story of the girl is for children to obey their parents. It can be refer as a cautionary tale. But the old angel just had nothing but a pair of enormous wings. It could not satisfy the villagers totally. Therefore the girl’s story more conform the moral and ethic of the public instead of the uncertain of the old angel.
I think that is also human nature to have desire that want to know something about the misery things. The spider girl would answer the question and share her story, so that villagers were all attracted by her instead of attracted by the poor old angel. For the old angel, the villagers just have one impression that is puzzle.
Hi, professor. I'm Vera(49807003). I choose question 2 to answer.
In '' A very Old Man with Enormous Wings”, the old man usually described as a unknown creature, he was so strange to everyone, people came to see him because he had big wings, so they treated him as a angel. But after few days later, people started to know , the angel was totally a normal person , he couldn't cure their diseases or fulfill their requests , so they began to treated him badly.
In paragraph9, the spider woman showed up. She talked about her heart- wrenching story with a easy word , and taught people never disobeyed their parents ;but no one knew where did the old man come from. She could talked to people about her misfortune, but the old man usually kept silent .People spent less than 5 cents seeing her, but they should pay 5 cents to see the old man. Unlike the old man ate eggplant mush, she ate meat-ball, which was similar with people . All the signs showed in the story almost matched the common values or universally applicable.
In my opinions, I think people have more interests in others misfortune. Opening the newspapers, we can read see many gossips and lots of bad things. So the story here, just only reflect human's desires. That's why the spider woman could be so popular with the people.
Hi, professor. I am Ashley (49902031). I Choose question 2 to answer. I think the spider girl is more attractive than the old men because of three reasons.
The first one is because the spider girl is more talkative than the angel. In the page 274 paragraph 10, we can see the difference between the spider girl and the angel. Although they both need admission, the spider girl is willing to recount the details of her unfortunate story than the angel. However, the angel just answers in an incomprehensible dialect and can’t explain what he happened. Therefore, I think the spider girl is more attractive than the angel because she can satisfy everybody’s curiosity.
The second one is because the spider girl conforms to moral regulations of the public. In the page 274 paragraph 10, we can also realize why the girl changes into a spider. It is our parents that we should obey; otherwise, we may have some punishments. This aphorism conforms to the cognition of the public. Therefore, I think this is one of reasons that the spider girl is more attractive.
The last one is because the spider girl is more special than the angel. In the page 271 paragraph 2, although the angel is different from our imagination, the angel doesn’t more special than the spider girl. The angel still has wings, although he is old, bald and dresses like a rag-picker. However, in the page 274 paragraph 10, the spider girl is out of our imaginations. It is so special that the spider girl is more attractive than the angel.
Therefore, these are my three reasons why the spider girl is more attractive than the angel.
Hello! Professor Hsu I'm Yan(49644071).I choose the question 3 to answer.
The woman in the yellow paper took a long time to analysis what secret on the wallpaper. When we see paragraph145「there is one marked peculiarity…it changes as the light change.」,we can infer that the woman knows the wallpaper’s pattern will change while light change.
As paragraph 150「when the sun shoots in through the east window...that is why I watch it always. 」、「at night in any kind of light…as plain as can be. 」、
170「there are always new shoots …」which can be known that the image became more she could watch more and more clear vision.
175「But there is something else about that paper-the smell!!」,the moment she could even smell the an odor from that pattern.
189「the front pattern does move…and her crawling shakes it all over.」,this is a turning point that we reader can know there are at lest one woman behind the yellow paper. The woman finds three things ,pattern changes、odor、another woman in the paper.
I thought that the author wanted men known that they couldn’t always use what they thought the best way to treat women. Beside, all we are equal. If men kept not equal on gender, men will be treat in that way and also go crazy one day.
Hi!I'm Daniel(49802073).I choose the question 2 to answer.
According to a Very Old Man with Enormous Wings, we can understand there are total differences between the old man and the spider woman. At the beginning of this article, the old man appeared in the Pelayo’s courtyard but none knew where he came; moreover, Pelayo and Eliseuda talked to him but he spoke an incomprehensible dialect to answer them, and a neighbor woman who is seem wise thought he was an angle and coming for the Pelayo’s child since they thought the child was cured by him when he came. Besides, they didn’t know what food he eats, and they tried to make him eat some mothballs for the neighbor woman thought the food prescribed for angle. Finally, they spent their time finding out if the angle had a navel for proving whether he is an angle or not. Consequently, we can find they use many manners to distinguish his identity between an angle and a common person.
On the contrary, the spider woman is different for the angle since she is easy to understand. She showed why she had been changed into a spider, which had disobeyed her parents; importantly, people were easier to understand her than the angle and she recounted the details of misfortune.
Therefore, we can find the angle is a elusive person and everyone thinks he is mysterious and hard to be understood, but the spider woman is obvious to be understood and easy to close; hence, we can know the spider woman attracts more people than the angle
Hello professor, I’m Celia (49801032). I choose question 2 to answer.
In “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings” we can get some points to compare with the old man and spider girl. First, the old man is haughty and spider girl is lovely. Second, the old man may have aphasia; the spider girl not only can speak but express her experience clearly. By these points, we can analyze why people like spider girl more than the old man. What people want is a truth. Angel is actually unusual, but except his enormous wings people can’t confirm what he is. Comparing with the spider girl, she can tell clearly what happened about her because people like thing are definite. They prefer to accept the thing in front of them rather than guess something they don’t know. It is also important that the spider girl is lovely. Lovely is a reason why the spider girl attracts more people than the old man. The spider girl can chat with them and describes the detail she changed into a spider. People may think why they should bear a haughty old man who is dirty like a ragpicker. The most important, the permission spend on spider girl is cheaper than the old man. We can summarize people in the village is vulgar because their behavior is blind. The spider girl in the story symbols a kind of simple way in the world. In the end, we can summarize the reason the spider girl attracts more people is people can see how the spider girl charming, lovely and attractive easily.
Hi, professor Hsu! I’m Cherry (49902037) I chose question 3 to answer.
In “The Yellow Wall Paper” the narrator was imprisoned in a room with yellow wall paper. One day, the narrator thought that there was a women trapped behind the pattern of wall paper. And the patterns just like bars. Since the narrator had found the woman trapped behind the wall paper, her attitude toward her husband and her husband’s sister was changed. She thought that they just wanted to control her life. In paragraph 247 “I wonder if they all come out of that wall paper as I did?” The narrator identifies herself with those women and determined to save the woman who had the same destiny like her- being trapped.
The narrator was treated as a child. In paragraph 95 “I lie here on this great immovable bed - it is nailed down.” The narrator lived on the top floor and her bed also couldn’t be moved. Only children or psychotics’ bed can’t be moved. Therefore, we can see that her husband treated her as a child and didn’t take her seriously, and also thought that he was superior to the narrator. In paragraph 39 “There comes John, and I must put this away- he hates to have me write a word.” I think the most important reason the narrator will go crazy is because her husband forbidden her to do what she liked and she didn’t have things to do rather than stared at the wall paper.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman wants to protest patriarchal society which women can’t have equal rights and inferior to men. Gilman also agrees with the collective fate of women in nineteen century. That’s why Gilman makes the narrator going crazy in the end.
Hi, professor! I am Alice (49902053), and I choose the question 2 to answer.
In the story “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings”, though the old man with enormous wings attracted people’s attentions at first, ignored soon. Before long, spider girl appeared. Quote to paragraph 10, “What was most heart-rending, however, was not her outlandish shape but the sincere affliction with which she recounted the details of her misfortune”. We could guess that spider girl knew about trivial things in her misfortune and made an engrossing story for people. Besides, quote to another part, ”A spectacle like that, full of so much human truth and with such a fearful lesson, was bound to defeat without even trying that of a haughty angel who scarcely deigned to look at mortals ”. People also like the thing which has a moral; spider girl is easily understood than the angel at all. (Angel is too supernatural and complex) At the last point, spider woman is flaring. In contrast with the old man, is an angel who should be sacred and inviolable but surrounded by filth, disease, infirmity and squalor.
I think that’s the reasons why does the spider girl attract more people than the angel
Hello, professor Hsu, I am Daphnie(49801023) I choose the question 3 to answer.
In “The Yellow Wallpaper,” Charlotte Perkins Gilman used first narrator to describe the situation of the protagonist. The narrator had been sent out to a colonial mansion for the summer. Then came out with the critical move: stop her from writing. He selects the nursery room which the bed is fixed in the room. As indicated the fate of the narrator herself. Writing had being considered as the most important move of history. With the development of the writing, human got the chance to developed knowledge. I think the image of “imprisoned” is the key point of the story. The room she was in and how her husband treated her indicated the situation of the women in nineteen century. No freedom of free thinking. That is what Charlotte Perkins Gilman is protesting. Then she started to stare at the wallpaper and recognized there was a women trapped behind the wallpaper. She can’t tell the difference between illusion and reality. Yet, the woman was the reflection of herself. When she gone crazy at the end, Gilman used an interesting sentence: Now why should that man have fainted? But he did, and right across my path by the wall, so that I had to creep over him every time!
In the beginning of the story, her husband showed the absolute superior. However, she took the control in the end. I think the secret that the women found behind the wall was the consciousness of her right to think, to choose, to be a free human being.
Hi! I'm Erica(49802025)I want to choose the question 2 to answer.
This story is a difficult work of art which make sense of elusive. In the beginging of the story, the old man really attracts many people's attention. However, this angle is not the normal angle type in our imagination. He is bald skull, dirty and speaks in an imcomprehensible dialect. Contrast the angle between the spider woman. The spider woman is more vigorous than the angle. She even had some interaction with audiences. After the spider woman appeared, the angle was totally being ignored.
In fact, the spider woman is more acceptable by the crowds. Because the spider woman is more interesting than the angle. She is energetic and even chated with the crowds and told them her story. She is much more close to the crowds. The angle won't please the crowds. Morover, he is out of the image of Angle. Therefore, he is not as attractive as the spider woman.
I'm Maggie. Answer the question 3.
We can know tat the woman discovers a woman behind the patterns of the wallpaper due to paragraph 124 and paragraph 125 ”It is always the same shape, only very numerous ” ” And it is like a woman stooping down and creeping about behind that pattern.” Also in paragraph 189 and paragraph 190 ”The front pattern does move-and no wonder! The woman behind shakes it!” “Sometimes I think there are a great many women behind, and sometimes only one, and she crawls around fast, and her crawling shakes it all over.”
Charlotte Perkins Gilman makes her narrator go crazy at the end of the story to give the readers a shot. To wake up the whole society in that time, the nineteenth century. Protest against the unfair treatment in the society of patriarchy. Even if the narrator go crazy in the end, she also release from her husband in the finally, due to the paragraph 265, 266 and the last paragraph “I kept on creeping just the same, but I looked at him over my shoulder.” “I’ve got out at last, said I, in spite of you and Jane. And I’ve pulled off most of the papers, so you can’t put me back!” “Now why should that man have fainted? But he did, and right across my path by the wall, so that I had to creep over him every time!”
Gilman takes herself as the narrator. No one really care about what she really need, and no one listens to her. She just like the woman, the one who will creep in the daytime, tries hard to get out. Being crazy is the only exit. She shows a great deal of oppression under her husband’s arrangement and monitor. And this represents the collective fate of the woman in the nineteenth century.
When the villagers asked the angel, a very old man with enormous wings, some questions, he replied in an incomprehensible accent with a strong sailor’s voice, which made the people in the village barely know where he came from and why he had large wings on his back. Moreover, the angel always kept silence and fewer interactions with people there. Gradually, the residents found the angel less and less interesting and forgot him.
However, the spider girl, who had have been changed into a spider for having disobeyed her parents, became more attractive to those inhabitants. The reason she had become a spider girl was clearer than the angel’s. Her experience can give the people a moral lesson which gave the inhabitants a way to follow. Moreover, the spider girl knew how to please the people to make them happy. When villagers asked her questions, she could answer the questions that could meet their requests with a sweet talking skill. Therefore, the popularity of the spider woman grew higher and higher.
Till now, in our society, there are still some people like spider girl who can speak a value which general people can accept but the thought may be no fair for some kinds of groups. Sometimes, few scholars reminding the thought that seems reasonable but no accepted by the mass people is just like the angel. Gradually, a value of society would be twisted by those guys who are like spider woman.
Being a humanist, we should have the critical thought beyond the world’s value. This is the real meaning Marquez wanted to tell us.
Hi! Professor Hsu, I am Jeffery(49902057). I choose question 3 to answer.
3) In “The Yellow Wallpaper,” what’s the secret the woman discovers behind the patterns of the wallpaper? Why does Charlotte Perkins Gilman make her narrator go crazy at the end of the story?
In “The Yellow Wallpaper,” the narrator, the woman, discovers that the yellow wallpaper is able to change the color as light changes; the dim shapes get clearer every day and the number of the shapes even become more and more. Behind the yellow wallpaper, there is a woman stooping down and creeping around the pattern. The patter just likes bars of cage, and the woman is trapped behind. Since she has discovered the queer wallpaper, her husband’s attitude changed. Her husband begins to treat her like a child and limit her movements and activities such as the woman who is trapped behind the yellow wallpaper. Finally, the women go crazy at the end of the story. She can’t endure the pressures from her husband and the fear of the women behind the wallpaper. She wants to get out of her husband’s control and the house, the room where like a nursery. Finally she frees herself form all of the things she annoyed. In paragraph 247-248, Gilman identifies herself as the woman in the story who suffers from the collective fate of the women in 19th century. Gilman fights for the women equal rights and she also tries to fight against the patriarchal society in 19th century. So she writes this story to protest the social institution and to express her anger.
Hello, I'm Ben(49902049), I choose question 2 to answer.
At the story, the very old man appear first, but he did nothing special, even when he talk was in foreign language that no body understand,
a man with no good appearance and no contact to people will not be welcome for sure.
Then, the spider woman showed up, the old man seems to be like a old toy to the audiences, not that fresh anymore, besides, the spider woman speaks the language that people understand, and also allow people to ask question to her, from that point the spider woman seems to be more considerate, and the last thing, the spider woman tells the story of her unfortunate, that makes the distance smaller, and people will know her more.
After hearing the explanation of teacher that I know the author had made a metaphor to the new and old literature, from that point, could let all story make sense, because every body loves new and fresh or something that could be understand easier.
Hi, professor! I am Patty (49902001), and I choose the question 3 to answer.
The woman discovers herself. The yellow wallpaper like a mirror reflects her. The woman behind the wallpaper is what she wants to become. She wants to be free. And the main character surrounds by the yellow wallpaper just like that her husband wants to control her. On the surface, her husband, John, treats her tenderly and does everything that is good for her. But in the interior, it symbols paternalism. Men want to dominate everything, including women. It also symbols female. The wallpapers are usually decorated in the house. The woman is imprisoned around the wallpaper like a jail. It reflects that women are jailed by domestic realm. They can not have their own opinions. They just listen what men want them to do.
The author is like the main character. Their experience is similar. She expresses what she wants to tell through the main character. So the narrator goes crazy, so does the author. The woman wants to get rid of shackle, pain, and panic what her husband adds her. So she tore up the whole wallpaper. It is like the woman wants to fight for what her husband does for her. Or maybe the woman does not go crazy, she knows what she does. She just wants to cover her behavior to seek freedom. The author seeks that female is equal as male. Although it narrates intensely, it reflects the reality at that time.
Hi! I am Tavia(49902065). I choose the question 2 to answer.
It is because the angel and the spider girl are different. Although in paragraph3 we can see that the couple thinks that he is a flesh-and-blood angel. But The angel was much too human. In paragraph 4 we can see that they tossing him things to eat through the openings in the wire as if he weren’t a supernatural creature but a circus animal. So the angel is ordinary. But the spider girl is extraordinary. It is because the spider girl was a frightful tarantula the size of a ram and with the head of a sad maiden. And this spider girl also has a reason that why she change into a spider girl. The reason is that she had been changed into a spider for having disobeyed her parents.
The angel appearance is ugly. He has a huge buzzard wings, dirty and half-plucked, were forever entangled in the mud. Also a few miracles attributed to the angel showed a certain mental disorder. But in the passage we can not find that the spider girl is ugly. The angel is full of so much human truth and with such a fearful lesson. So many people want to look at mortals than to see the angel.
We can find the simple answer in the spider women why she changes into a spider. But the angel is more complexity to know why he is an angel. So the spider women is more attractive to people. And people don’t like the angel is full of so much human truth
I'm Ethan, I choose question 2 to answer.
In the beginning of the story, 'the old man with the enourmous wings', while the family was cleaning crabs in the house, suddenly there was a falling object, in their yard, it was the old man. The man dressed like a ragpicker, with enormous wings back. Everything happened was attractive. So the crowd all crowded to the yard to see the ' angel'. Not even the people in the area, but also people from everywhere wanted to see the angel, worshiped him, asked him questions and prayed for help. However, the angel didn't do anything. With the passing of the time, everyone lost their interest in him. At this time, spider woman appeared. Unlike the angel, the spider woman talked. She reacted with the crowd, telling everyone why she became a spider. The angel was old, looked like somebody's grandfather. The image of an angel. Everyone considered the angel should be young, good looking, holy and with magical power which can solve people's problems. The old man didn't have any ability. So the crowd started to consider him as a weird creature. Compared to the old man, the spider woman won everyone's atteneion and interest. She reacted to the crowd. I think this is the main reason why she is much more popular than the old man.
I choose question 3 to answer.
The narrator , John's wife , was limited by her husband in a yellow wallpaper room. As time went by, she gradually saw something strange in the wallpaper.
The woman found that the pattern of the wallpaper changed while light changed. "When the sun shoots in through the east window...that is why I watch it always."
For longer she lived in the room, the image she saw from the wallpaper was getting clearer and clearer." There are always new shoots on the fungus, and ... ,though I have tried conscientiously."
"But there is something else about that paper-the smell!!" From this sentence we can tell that she started to smelled something from the wallpaper.
At last, the narrator started to see women creeping around behind the wallpaper
1. wallpaper changed with light
2. smell
3. women creeping around behind the wallpaper
It's a symbol that women will go crazy if men keep giving pressure to them. Their status is unequal, and women are controlled by men. Gilman expressed the concept and her anger through this story.
In “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings,” why does the spider girl attract more people than the angel?
In the beginning, the author described the angel as a normal very old man. He dressed like a ragpicker. There were only few faded hairs left on his bald skull and very few teeth in his mouth. Every portraits about him as though he just liked our great-grandfather. Strictly speaking, his huge buzzard wings was the most different from us. On the contrary, spider girl, who had a frightful tarantula the size of ram and with the head of a sad maiden. What a weird body shape. But the most importantly, though she had a peculiar figure, she seemed not be shameful for it. To my surprise, she liked to share the details of her misfortune to others. What is more, she would answer every questions for you if you ask her. As if she was the best-seller in our reality. She was good at how to grasp the attraction of people. Compared to the angel, he caught everyone’s eye at first. But he spoke an incomprehensible dialect with a strong sailor’s voice. No one can comprehend it. Thus, everybody were not interested in him step by step. These two characters represented our two knowledge systems in the society. Spider girl means we always choose the easiest method to reach our goals. We don’t like to think by ourselves. Just accept what others give us passively. The angel means the truth which is very complicated. It will lead us to be puzzling about it. So we won’t opt this way naturally. This is the reason why spider girl can catch more attraction than the angel.
Hello, professor! I am Sammi Chen (49902013) I choose question nummber2 to answer.
In “A very Old man with Enormous Wings”, the spider woman attracts more people than the angel because she is much easier to approach. Whenever people ask her questions, she will give them direct and simple answers. On the contrary, the angel is more complicated and not easy to understand. In fact, the author analogies himself as the angel. He represents classic literature. Generally speaking, these works puzzle readers a lot and not so many people nowadays like to spend their time thinking. That’s why these classic works are not popular among the public. On the other hand, the spider woman is like the best seller. The words and the sentences in these books are reductive and universally applicable, which is the main cause why they are more popular. Another reason is that the angel in this article disappointed people. First, he is described as an old and ugly creature. Second, he doesn’t have the magical power to cure people (like what bible said), which makes people think he is useless. And these two does not match people’s conventional thought.
I am Andrew (49902055) I choose question 2 to answer.
In “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings,” why does the spider girl attract more people than the angel?
When the angel falls down, people think he is weird because of his appearance. It is believe that an angel should be beautiful, young and elegant, but the angel isn’t similar to the traditional image and he speaks dead language. Though people are becoming not rational, and do many ridiculous experiments on him to prove whether he is an angel or not. However, the old man doesn’t want to be bother so he keeps silence. On the other hand, the spider girl is converse totally. She is young, optimistic and she wants to talk with people in a language that people can understand, so that people can know more about her who is consider a strange thing. In addition, the price of seeing the spider girl is cheaper than the price of seeing the angel. It is reasonable that the young spider girl attracts more people than the boring old man.
Because people don’t want to spend much time realizing a complex thing.
2) In “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings,” why does the spider girl attract more people than the angel?
In the beginning of the story, a very old man was found lying face down in the mud. He was dressed like a ragpicker. There were only a few faded hairs left on his bald skull and very few teeth in his mouth. This appearance of the very old man is totally difference from the beautiful angel image that impresses in our mind. Then, the very old man speaks incomprehensible dialect, and he doesn’t have motion to anything or anyone. Relatively, the admission to see spider girl was not only less than the admission to see the angel, and people asked spider girl all manner of questions about her absurd state and examined her up and down so that no one would ever doubt the truth of her horror. And she also recounted the details of her misfortune with sincere affliction. Therefore, I think that’s why spider girl attracts more people than the angel.
As a result, the angel symbolizes complexity and the spider girl symbolizes simple that are related to human nature. So, that’s why people like spider girl more than the angel.
Hi, Professor! I am Sai. I choose questin <2> to answer.
The first time the women notice that it is something strange on the wall paper. We can see that on line 148" There is one marked peculiarity about this paper, a thing nodbody seems to notice but myself, and that is that it changes as the light changes."
And the next thing she finds that is the smell from the yellow wall paper.(line 175).
At that time she is not so sure that whether there is a woman hiding behing the wall paper. Whether it is day or night, she always notice on the wall paper. It makes her go dizzy.
Finally, she finds out the woman from the wall paper in a shining day morning; whose creeping around the garden.(line 198) So she decides to find out the answer of the mystery.
But at last, we all know that she is going crazy.
The woman inside the wall paper is her illusion. The narrator identifies herself with the woman trapped in the wall paper.
I think Charlotte Perkins Gilman make her narrator go crazy at the beginning of the story!
But she makes a good elaborate to attract the readers. From the beginning, we can see that the narrator is emphasizing on both her husband and brother are physicians.
She repeats this again and again. At last we find that this phenomenon is her illusion and her psycho problem!( I think is Cause by his husband)
Wow, that's why the story's exquisite. That's the feeling that the narrator wants to give us. I totally get it!
In conclusion, i realize that we shouldn't disregard one's feeling, no matter who are they. We should listen other's opinions and advises. Otherwise, one day something trouble is going to happen inside the wall of our room!
Hi, professor! I am Joanna (49801046) and I choose the question 3 to answer.
In “The Yellow Wallpaper,” when the woman first saw the wallpaper, she felt that the wallpaper had hatred emotion. (in paragraph 33) She started observing the pattern.(paragraph 80) After several days, the woman found out that the pattern of the wallpaper gradually became clearer everyday, the pattern looks like a shape of a woman.(paragraph 122~125) Finally, she realized that there was a woman skulking and behind the wallpaper! The woman behind the wallpaper was stooping down and creeping in the wallpaper. This strange thing became the secret of the woman.
In this story, Gilman makes her narrator go crazy in the end. I think Gilman puts her destiny in the story (or the women of her times) .Gilman wants to reflect the women’s state and destiny under the patriarchy at her times. Wallpaper may symbols the times of her age and women are the pattern of the wallpaper. Gilman makes her narrator go crazy may represent that women break the patriarchy, which looks like normal and logical. Crazy seems illogical, however, in this story, Gilman wants to show reader that crazy sometimes stands for break the situation that looks normal while it is unreasonable actually.
Hi! Professor, I am Winni (49902017). I choose question 2 to answer.
2) In “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings,” why does the spider girl attract more people than the angel?
In the beginning, the old man with enormous wings does attract people. But, the old man’s appearance is very different from people’s fancy because people always think that a person or kid with wings is an angel and an angel should look beautiful. So when people look at the old man first time, their fancy is broken. However, they still respect the old man. They want to ask the old man why he has wings and many things they want to know about, but in vain. He just keeps silent and eats eggplant mush.
Then, the spider woman appears. She can tell all things about her and why she became a spider woman. She’s appearance, answer and story fulfils people’s curiosity. People understand the spider woman’s simple moral lesson because of her story – betray her parents then become a weird thing like a punishment. But people don’t know the old man at all. They start saying that the angel is haughty and start to disrespect him. Spider woman is easily close to people because she can talk people, amuse people and her appearance is not different from people thought. That’s the reason spider woman attracts more people than the old man.
Hi, professor Hsu. I'm Linda(49902051). I choose question 2 to answer.
2) In “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings,” why does the spider girl attract more people than the angel?
In “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings,” we can tell the extreme difference between the angle and spider girl. The angle was old, dressed like a ragpicker and spoke an incomprehensible dialect. All of his behaviors and appearance made others conjecture to him, seemed he had lots of secrets, but there didn't have any answer, just leave a complex puzzle. Relatively, the admission to see the spider girl was not only less than to see the angle's, but also people were permitted to ask her all manner of questions about her absurd state. At the same time, she recounted the details of her misfortune, which could get other's sympathy or use to admonish children by their parents. What she behaves is reductive and universally applicable.
This reason can also be applied to human nature. People will want to believe the things more familiar to them, but deny directly the things which are too complex to understand. On the other hand, human all have curiosity about gossips. The spider girl is not only more intimate to villagers than the angle, but also can content people's curiosity. This is the reasons why she attracts more people than the angel.
Hi, professor! I'm Emma(49802072) and I choose Q2 to answer:)
According to paragraph 8, “His only supernatural virtue seemed to be patience.” “The only time they succeeded in arousing him was when they burned his side with an iron for branding steers.” No matter people did anything cruel to him, the angel still kept motionless. And his reaction was incomprehensible. In contrast, according to paragraph 10, “The admission to see her was not only less than the admission to see the angel, but people were permitted to ask her all manner of questions about her absurd state and to examine her up and down so that no one would ever doubt the truth of her horror.” Spider girl could communicate and interact with people not just ignored them. People think the angel was more complex than the spider, and human being generally liked the simple answers rather than puzzles. That’s why spider girl caught people’s eyes when she appeared. Besides, people tried to find out whether the angel could do the odd things or not. The angel couldn’t do it so they thought he was useless. But the tale of spider girl had a cautionary meaning which was easily understood by human.
Hi, teacher. I'm Taphy, student ID 49802071
Here's my answer to Q2
The old man performs only minor “consolation miracles.” By “the blind man who didn't recover his sight but grew three new teeth, or the paralytic who didn't get to walk but almost won the lottery, and the leper whose sores sprouted sunflowers.”
People like simple, straightforward answers that spider woman gives then puzzles that old man provides. On the other hand, between “one truth” and “truths” The spider woman tells a heart-wrenching story with a clear, easy-to-digest lesson in morality that contrasts sharply with the obscurity of the old man’s existence and purpose. From the text “A spectacle like that, full of so much human truth and with such a fearful lesson, was bound to defeat without even trying that of a haughty angel who scarcely deigned to look at mortals.”
And the spider woman is more kind than the old man who speaks language that no one could understand. From the text” The admission to see her was not only less than the admission to see the angel, but people were permitted to ask her all manner of questions about her absurd state and to examine her up and down so that no one would ever doubt the truth of her horror.”
I chose question 2 to answer.
This "angel" was totally not what people had always dreamed of. He was a very old man and what he dressed was just like a ragpicker. He was like our old grandpas, old and normal. He acted like an ordinary man. He even ate eggplant mush! After their curiosity, these villagers gradually lost their attention to the angle. After all, this angel was far from their ideal imagination.
In addition, this old man could not easily be understood. He spoke Unknown language and he could not answer what people asked. He was useless to them, since he even could not teach people something. What he showed was silence.
As to the spider woman, she was definitely much more appealing to people. She had so many stories to tell and her outlook was unique. The details of her stories were so clear that no one would doubt them.
In paragraph 10, line 15, it said that she was bound to defeat without even trying that of a haughty angle who scarcely deigned to look at mortals. People all liked things that were easy to understand. They ignored knowledge that took time to discover, pursuing interesting things. What really deserved to learn was thrown behind, waiting to be forgot.
Hi!professor! I am Sammy(49902061)
.I choose the question 3 to answer.
Because of paragraph 123-125 “Behind that outside pattern the dim shapes get clearer every day." 、"It is always the same shape, only very numerous."、 "And it is like woman stooping down and
creeping about behind that pattern." paragraph 154 " I did not
realize for long time what the thing was that showed behind, that
dim sub-pattern, but now I am quite sure it is a woman.", we can exactly know that the narrator discovered the secret behind the pattern of wall paper is a woman.
And when we read these paragraphs which described the woman behind the wall paper, we also realized that the woman influenced narrator to be crazy little by little.
I think that the author, Charlotte Perkins Gilman ,let narrator go crazy is because she want to show
that the women in the nineteen century was always controlled by
the men. In the patriarchal society, women could not do the things that they want to do. Like the woman behind the wall paper, narrator was trapped in the narrow space, there were so many limitations around her. In the end, she pulled of the paper. It meant that she could not bear anymore.
Hello, I'm Lily (49902009). I choose question 3 to answer.
In "The Yellow Wallpaper" we can see the secret gradually revealed in paragraph 122. And it points out that the narrator seemed to discover a woman stooping down and creeping about behind that pattern. The woman seemed to be trapped in the wallpaper and was eager to get out. No one can see the woman but the narrator because the woman simply reflects the narrator herself. The narrator is just like a prisoner that being imprisoned in the nursery room by her husband. In paragraph 189 gives a more detailed description about the woman behind the wallpaper. The woman even cheeped in daytime. And in the end the narrator finally decided to save the woman out the wallpaper.
The reason why Charlotte Perkins Gilman makes her narrator goes crazy is that first her husband put her in a nursery, which means that her husband treats her like a child, and doesn’t take their marriage seriously. In the story we can even infer that the nursery not only means treating a child, but also treating a mental problem patient-the narrator. Because the bed in mental hospital can’t be moved, this is in paragraph 96. Due to the attitude of her husband, we can see that at that time women don’t have the equal rights compared to men. And men think that they are better than women by all means. And the way her husband keep her finally cause the craziness of the narrator.
Hello, professor! I am Shawn (49903016). I choose the question 2 to answer.
These two characters in the story severally represent the ‘Universal Value’ of the people. The angel show the complicated values that hard to be understand. He had lots of secrets, but there didn't have any answer. Moreover, the angel is such an unrealistic character in the world. People curious about it very much, but the author made a totally different angel that we used to think and made the angel an unapproachable and mysterious feature. On the other hand, the spider was also same as the old man, they were both strange creatures, but the one thing was different, the spider girl appearance, answer and story fulfils people’s curiosity, she gave the people what they want and It’s also easy to make people comprehend. In the surface the spider girl attract more people than the old man. However, behind the surface it means people‘s values were attend to the simple things, it seems like today’s ‘Fast food Fashion’, people be attracted and believed by the simple and ignorance things. Consequently, the angel and the spider girl symbolize the opposite meanings which reflect the ‘Universal Value’. This is the reasons why she attracts more people than the angel.
Good evening, Professor Hsu, I’m Edson (49902043), and I want to choose question 2 to reply.
In this story, the old man was more complicated than the spider woman, because the old man didn’t give any answers for those villagers’ question; they had highly interest in this mystic old man at first, but after they had tried many times without any response, they began to lose their patient.
As long as the spider woman appeared, villagers realized that she was more talkative; they gradually ignore and forget the old man.
To the villagers, the old man just liked a hardly-understandable opera; they have to pay much patient to comprehended, in the other hand, the spider woman was entertaining, they didn’t have to spend lots of time to understand the spider woman’s background, she just liked a soap TV show.
Though soap TV shows are just skin-deep, there are still more people like to watch them, just because they don’t have to use their brain to think a lot. But apparently, the operas always use more skills, scenes, conversations to make people to think deeply.
Why do people prefer soap TV shows to operas? Because people are too lazy to think a lot, they always find an excuse that they are too tired because they had had a long work time, they just want to have something fun! But operas provide people to think into their selves.
People love the spider woman much than the old man because they just want to have something easy to understand and entertaining.
Hi, I am Bert (49802038). I want to answer the question 2.
The old man with big wings is popular at first. Everyone in the village wants to see him curiously because they think that he is an angel; however, they eventually found out that he was just an odd old man - dresses like a rag picker, has pair bat-like wings, and sometime mumbles with strange language - who almost does not want to respond or pay attention to any one. In contrast with the old man, the spider with a woman’s face attracts more people by her character. She would tell people how her misery happened, and it always touches people’s heart.
Both of the old man and the spider girl are symbols that Marquez uses them to reflect most people’s preference. The old man, is represented as a complexity and puzzle, has many truths, but the spider girl just has a simple answer, a truth, her tragedy. That is, people can understand the spider girl more easily than the old man, for she is represented as a universally applicable thing. Thus, the spider girl attracts more people than the old man.
Hi, professor. I am Peace(49902007). I am here to answer Question two.
2) In “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings,” why does the spider girl attract more people than the angel?
In the very beginning, the old man with enormous wings did attract the people in the village. But when they take a closer look at the angel, the villagers found out that actually, the old man totally ran out of their fantasy of an angel. He was bald and was dressed like a ragpicker. And when the villagers asked him questions, he didn’t give a reply. The villagers gave him papal lunches to eat, but he just turned it down, he just ate eggplant mush instead. The image of an angel was not happen on him. There was not beautiful face, energetic body at all. And the old man didn’t even say a word.
But on the other hand, the spider girl seemed more friendly and attractive than the old man. The spider girl had a good reaction with the crowd. She was willing to answer their questions, and gave the answers directly. So the villagers had interest on her.
In conclusion, due to the spider girl’s reaction with the villagers, she became more attractive than the old man.
Hi, professor. I'm Clare(49788036). I choose question 2 to answer.
In '' A very Old Man with Enormous Wings”, the old man described as a poor guy. Humanity is cruel. People like to see someone else in pain. Although the villagers called the old man angel, but at once they discovered he just had a big wings but couldn`t do anything helpful for them, they treated it cruel. But the spider woman is different and fresh for villagers. In addition, the spider woman even looked more normal and beautiful than the angel. The most important, villagers pay less to see the spider woman than to see the useless angel.
Hi, professor Hsu. I'm Jim(49902033). I choose question 2 to answer.According,A very Old Man with Enormous Wings, people consider that the old man is an angel because he has enormous wings. However, people find that the old man cannot speak natural language and his apperance is awful so they think that the old man maybe is not an angel. Therefore, people don't pay attention to him. Then, when the spider woman arrive the town. People pay attention to her because she has strange body and beautiful face. And, spider woman can speak natural language.And, she can tell people why she become this appearance. However, the old man is a mystery for this people of town. So, spider woman can attract more people than the angle.
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