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Finding something else?

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“But we could not convince each other, or even ourselves, of anything definite. We had turned off all light as we stood still, and vaguely noticed that a trace of deeply filtered upper day kept the blackness from being absolute. Having automatically begun to move ahead, we guided ourselves by occasional flashes from our torch. The disturbed debris formed an impression we could not shake off, and the smell of gasoline grew stronger.” “The other odor ahead. Paradoxically, it was both a less frightful and more frightful odor.”

In the previous chapter, we found that they saw some evidences about the old ones, who lived there millions of years ago, and Dyer mentioned that he actually liked their cultures. Now we can see they are finding more stuff. They were smelling an odor but they didn’t know what was it. So, we can connect that with the previous topic that they will find something that was belong to the old ones. He mentioned it was less and more frightful, so I think they are little scared about what will happen next.

The Dead

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When I started reading the story “The Dead” by James Joyce, I thought the main character would be Lily, because the way writer mentioned her name at the beginning of the story. As we were reading through the story we saw few more characters involved in the story. Then all the focuses went to Gabriel and his wife Gretta. There was something going on between them, because writer didn’t mention them together in the same spot that much, even when everyone was leaving, she was upstairs listening to some song, while Gabriel was downstairs trying to find out is anything wrong with her. Then end of the story writer told us why she was acting like that. That tells us what kind of ‘Character’ Gretta is.

An Hour And The Bayou

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“The Story Of An Hour” and “Beyond The Bayou” by Kate Chopin are both different from each other, but both are about a woman and they are the main characters in the story. The story of an hour is about a woman named Mrs. Mallard with heart disease. For some reason the writer showed us that her husband died in the beginning of the story to build a connecting with readers and the main character’s health situation. Since she was diagnosed with the heart disease, a lot of things were going around in her mind. When she locked herself in her room, she felt like something was talking to her. “She said it over and over under her breath: “free, free, free!””.(pg: 47). That shows she finally got her freedom and it tells us what kind of relationship she had with her husband. I tried to compare this story with one of the stories I’ve read in my other class called “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. I can find a similarity between these two stories. In “The Yellow Wallpaper” the main character used to talk to the wall and the writer mentioned that she saw something on the wall, like Mrs. Mallard was talking to herself. In the other hand “Beyond The Bayou” is about an independent woman, who works as hard as a man. Her name was Jacqueline but she was known as La Folle. She used to work hard every day. She made a friendship with the son of the owner of Bellissime named Cheri. He used to come to her all the time and tell her everything. I can compare this story to one of the story we’ve read in this class “Everyday Use” by Alice Walker. The main character or the mother used to work like La Folle all the time. She was a strong woman too. When I was comparing the two characters from “The Story Of An Hour” and “Beyond The Bayou”, I couldn’t find any similarity between two of them. Mrs. Mallard is kind of quiet person and La Folle is always friendly and outgoing.