The Purloined Letter

Very good mystery story. I enjoyed reading it, had me thinking the whole time. They couldn’t find the letter because they were searching in usually places.. They didn’t think out the box. They weren’t putting themselves in the shoe of the robber. Durpin was able to find the letter; the story they explain how he comes up to find it there. Edgar Allen Poe is trying to tel readers how we can rush through things; we should take a step back, think and view things one by one and that just might help us.

The Use of Force

This was really interesting story William C. Williams has written. When reading this story, in the beginning it seems as if the doctor is kind and normal person who wants to do his job... As you read on that would change, well to me the doctor sounded like a nut case. I felt as if the doctor had something wrong with him, he was not a normal doctor at all!! When the doctor tries to get the little girl's mouth opened, he gets annoyed by her because she's a afriad; stubborn child. "i could have torn the child apart in my own fury and enjoyed it." What kind of doctor thinks this way??!! I believe the doctor loved seeing the child hurt and what to hurt her and enjoy it. "it was a pleasure to attack her." He enjoyed hurting her; this tells us that this doctor has serious issuses and should not be taking care of anyone but himself. But he did figure out what was wrong with girl at end, and the young girl was not happy for the pain she went through; she tries to attack the doctor. Which i believe she should have because he was enjoying every part of the process.

"The Yellow Wallpaper"
This is very interesting story. I would say it is more of a dairy. The writing of the story is narrator by a first person point of view. As you read this story you get to know her more. She has a great imagination, she thinks wilder than anyone. She talks about her childhood and her experiences with her imagination about her furniture. Although everyone around her believes that she is suffering from a temporary nervous depression; she needs to calm and just relax. Her husband and brother are both physicians; they preferred that she does not do any work, or being writing. On other hands she wanted to write and work. She believed this was going to get her better and good faster than anything else. She did not like being in the room. She talks to her husband about wanting to go the other room downstairs. John says no and prefers she stays where she is. Throughout the story she describes this wallpaper that is really uncomfortable to her. Soon she describe in details which she states that she sees a woman tapped in it. That woman wants rip out of that wallpaper and run free. But for some reason it is hard. This wallpaper then starts to bother her more and everything about it gets annoying. This wallpaper symbolizes her. She is the women behind the paper who run free; it’s hard for her to break free because of her husband. You can see that John is a really important person in her life. She holds back a lot of her feelings for him. Al thought some are just too much and she does not realize that it is really hard to control them. At the end you can see when she runs out of the room, you see how her husband lays fainted in front of her; she cannot bear this. All that happiness and joy of freedom that she has is once again put aside for her husband.