Barn Burning by William Faulkner

This a story about a family where the father likes to Burn Barns. They move from town to town and the father continues to start fights with outers and burns down the barns. the youngest child town between either telling the truth or sticking with the family. At the end the mother tries to hold him back from telling the family that his father was about to burn the barn. He escapes out of his mothers arms and tells the family. He runs away and never looks back.


I think that this story is all about loyalty and the different types. In this story we see loyalty to family, town and self. In the beginning the young boy is loyal to his family and at the end he is loyal to himself cause he knew he needed to tell the truth. The loyalty to the town is shown though out the story where the people kick the family out to protect one another.
Also this story is about power. The father feels like he need to have control not just over his family but where ever they live. He has to show everyone that hes the boss and he can do what ever he wants.

Sweat by Zora Hurston

Summery
The story starts with Delia in a Florida kitchen beginning to wash closes when her husband of 15 years interrupts. Durring the story we see how her husband Sykes is and has been mentally and physically abusive to her and how the whole town knows and cant do anything about it. Through out the whole story Sykes throws around his affair with another woman, and how strong he is. At the end Delia finally defends her self. Sykes takes a snake that he caught and leaves it in a box outside the house to scare her. Finally at the end Delia enters the house and then finds the snake in the house. She flees outside and waits for Sykes to return. When he does return he cries out for her but she does not enter the house until daybreak and sees him on the ground all swollen from the rattle snake bites.

Comments
I think the story is pretty blunt and to the point. It shows the effects of abuse on a community. Delia was a beautiful woman who was in love then after the years of abuse had taken its toll on her. The whole town knew what was going on in the relationship and all they did was stand back while it was being flaunted on to them. Then when Delia tried to fight back he pushed back to show who was in power. Yet in the end he didn't have all the power cause who was the one who was crying out for who.

The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

In this story the narrator is a young wife who is staying in a rental house. She is suffering from depression, so her husband keeps her in the same room with only him and his sister to visit her. Hiding her writing she tells of the wallpaper that lines the walls of her room. Throughout the story she tells of the women she sees trapped in the wall paper at night and during the day is able to creep around. Eventually she becomes obsessed and fixated with the paper and at the end of the story she locks herself in the room and tears off the paper and strangles herself.

Comments
I see the woman in the wall to represent the narrator. On the outer most appearance she seems like a quiet mosey woman and the woman in the wallpaper is her tring to breakout of her shell. In the end she does break out but it lead to her down fall.