This summer was not what I envisioned it would be. My usual summer activities included going to the beach, camping and amusement parks. Instead I stayed home and binge watched How To Get Away With Murder- which i highly recommend others to watch.  Aside from just binge watching the series I started to run, at first I wasn’t a big fan of the idea, the sweat and the actual movement.  The more I went out for runs it became therapeutic it was something I could do when I wasn’t feeling okay. I also decided to start my own little garden which is a success right now. I have bell peppers, tomatoes and my favorite blueberries. I hope next summer I can do my usual activities.

Between the two stories “The Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allen Poe and “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, I preferred the short story “The Tell-Tale Heart”. Both stories dealt with mental illness but showed two different views of how they dealt with it. In “The Yellow Wallpaper” the main characters mental health worsen the more she focused on the wallpaper, the focus of the yellow wallpaper came from her mental health deteriorating. She had her family watching over her as her mental health worsen. In “The Tell-Tale Heart” the main character started obsessing over an eye of some he has known for years. One day the look of their eye just drove him to murder him. I thought it was interesting how he described himself he knew there was something wrong and also the way he described why the eye bothered him hooked me into wanting to read more.