Author: Evelyn Martinez

Final Essay outline

Story : Interpreter of Maladies

Characters : Mr Kapasi, Mrs. Mina Das, (maybe) Mr. Das

Scenes :  

  • When Mrs. Das tells Mr K that she had an affair years ago and Bobby isn’t the son of Mr Das. 
  • When the monkeys are attacking Bobby because Mrs. Das dropped the puff rise and Mr Das just took pictures instead of acting or helping Bobby  

Thesis : In this essay we will analyze the decisions of Mr. Kapasi and Mina Das in moments of crisis and what they turn to in these times, also what type of ethics they both follow. We will also figure out what type of globalization is shown in the story 

Paragraph 1- Introduce the thesis statement, small summary of the story. And a quick introduction to characters, ethics and globalization. 

Paragraph 2/3 – ETHICS – scenes in which Mr Kapasi shows what ethos he follows and lives life as, and scenes in which Ms Das shows us what ethics she follows and why her charter acts the way she does. 

Paragraph 4 – GLOBALIZATION – scenes that how the story includes globalization

Paragraph 5 – conclusion   

midterm outline

The stories and characters I have chosen to write about are Emily in “A Rose for Emily” by Faulkner and the narrator in “The Yellow WallPaper” by Gilman. These stories both fit in the gothic theme because there’s suspense and both main characters are mysterious mad womens. The way that these women behave throughout their story is not normal and definitely out of the norm. 

Similarities between Emily and the narrator (TYW) : 

  • Both of the main characters are women 
  • They experiencing loss of control 
  • Strong female characters 
  • They are both going through the motion of feeling trapped/ they also lose touch with reality because of the things that are taunting them. 
  • The settings are in houses 
  • Dealing with death 
  • There a was surprise shock at the end 
  • There’s oppression in both stories 

Differences between both characters :

  • Emily is very controlling and she’s mostly hiding throughout the story 
  • The narrator for the yellow wallpaper is being controlled 
  • The narrator is a mother 
  • For Emily it was the dead body she was hiding and for the narrator is the stain in the wallpaper.  
  • A rose for emily was written in third person
  • The yellow wallpaper is in first person

coffeehouse #4

The Enormous Radio could be considered a gothic story, because the stuff that Jiim and Irene hear through the radio about their neighbors is shocking to them and the reader. Such as the Mr.Osborn abusing his wife and the Hutchinsons can’t pay their medical bills. Also they are invading people’s privacy so often which is abnormal . And at the end of the story Jim reveals that Irene is a thief. And since the radio goes back to normal Irene goes mad trying to find a station where she could hear the neighbors conversations. 

This story doest really fit in with the other gothic story due to the lack of terror and suspense. Also when analyzing the characters they aren’t exactly mysterious people, they are regular people living a normal life, and they just happen to have a radio that allows them to hear things from other apartments. When I think about a gothic story, the first thing that comes to mind is death so while reading the enormous radio, it didn’t seem to me a gothic story.  

-Evelyn Martinez