Title: The Art of Battling Yourself 

Introduction 

Hook: If you dislike the situation presented, you can either take action to change it or change the way you think about it.

Thesis Statement: The mental constraints forcibly placed upon the narrator in “The Yellow Wallpaper” and the voluntary isolation of the hunger artist in “A Hunger Artist” made their purist of happiness unattainable.

Body Paragraph One 

Summary of “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Insert quote that adds substances and aids to understanding the personality of the narrator as well as her husband John.

Explain the spirit of perverseness exhibited in the narrator. 

Body Paragraph Two

Summary of the “A Hunger Artist” by Franz Kafka

Insert quote that adds substance and aids to understanding the personality of the hunger artist character. Explain the spirit of perverseness exhibited in the hunger artist. 

Body Paragraph Three

An in-depth comparison of self-sabotage forced upon the narrator in “The Yellow Wallpaper” and the critical difference in understanding society in “A Hunger Artist” made it impossible for a return to normalcy. 

Body Paragraph Four 

Expanding on the comparisons previously made and support with evidence cited from both stories. 

Conclusion 

Summarization of thesis statement 

Reinstate connection to “The Yellow Wallpaper” and “A Hunger Artist” 

Final closing statement.