Realism

A story of an hour:


The Realist were people who told things straight up.
There stood, facing the open window, a comfortable, roomy armchair. Into this she sank, pressed down by a physical exhaustion that haunted her body and seemed to reach into her soul.
She could see in the open square before her house the tops of trees that were all quiver with the new spring life. The delicious breath of rain was in the air. In the street below a peddler was crying his wares. The notes of a distant song which some one was singing reached her faintly, and countless sparrows were twittering in the eaves. The story took place in a bedroom while a lady is weeping not only because she afraid to die but the news of her husbands death. She understood a whole lot more since here daughter told her one was happening. realism is sort of the same thing because they thought if people were told up front about the sittuation they would understand a whole lot more.

"She did not hear the story as many women have heard the same, with a paralyzed inability to accept its significance. She wept at once, with sudden, wild abandonment, in her sister's arms". Shes crying which indicates that she is sad or probably in pain from the heart disease she has.



Free! Body and soul free!" she kept whispering.
Josephine was kneeling before the closed door with her lips to the keyhole, imploring for admission. "Louise, open the door! I beg, open the door--you will make yourself ill. What are you doing Louise? For heaven's sake open the door."
"Go away. I am not making myself ill." No; she was drinking in a very elixir of life through that open window"

I think the social issue is don't drink because you might end up dying from too much, especially because of the death of a loved one.



The Battle With Mr. Covey:

"If at any one time of my life more than another, I was made to drink the bitterest dregs of slavery, that time was during the first six months of my stay with Mr. [Edward] Covey. We were worked in all weathers. It was never too hot or too cold; it could never rain, blow, hail, or snow too hard for us to work in the field". Ii think the story takes places on a plantation, with other workers and an overseer's.

Fredrick Douglas was a strong individual that realized to stand up to Mr. Covey all he wanted was to catch a little break because the weather got to him.



Belly:
The story of belly is a great example of realism.
It portrays how hard it is for an African American or middle class citizens to make money without resorting to violence or the selling of drugs. If realism focuses on the central point of an social or economical topic then this move is tied in as being realistic.

Dark Romanticism

The Anti-Transcendentalist or Dark romantics were people who believed in original sin, which means that everyone is a sinner because of what Adam and Eve did. They also thought that it was the cause of the evil inside of everyone. Dark Romantics believed that there was evil inside of everyone. The Transcendentalist on the hand thought other hand; didn’t believe in original sin. They believed that god could talk to people through other peoples mind, and everyone was generally good.

I think that every animal or mammal isn’t all ways good. There is always going to be something wrong with a person. Or they have done something bad they don’t have to be a bad person in general just anything.

That little voice could possibly be god. I don’t know I think it’s your inner conscience which is controlled by god I guess.

I think I would fall under being a dark romanticist. Judging by myself I know for a fact that a lot of people are evil so everyone can’t be good. A person can have goodness in them though. But I don’t think Adam and Eve are the cause of it though. If’s that’s the case then how would you explain this: A man is on the brink of losing his mind because taxes are still rising, lost his job and can’t support his family what you think is going to happen? He will either do something about it or ask for help, and when you can’t get help you are forced to do some things on your own which includes robbing.

There was always something bothering him about the death of Pluto and the burning of his house. That he thought he could replace his losses so he tried to replace the cat. Every thing was good until he started having these feelings and thoughts turn up. So he decided to kill the cat and ended up killing his wife with no remorse. ‘I aimed a blow at the animal which, of course, would have proved instantly fatal had it descended as I wished. But this blow was arrested by the hand of my wife. Goaded, by the interference, into a rage more than demoniacal, I withdrew my arm from her grasp and buried the axe in her brain. She fell dead upon the spot, without a groan’. Perfect example of why people aren’t 100% good. 'The corpse, already greatly decayed and clotted with gore, stood erect before the eyes of the spectators. Upon its head, with red extended mouth and solitary eye of fire, sat the hideous beast whose craft had seduced me into murder, and whose informing voice had consigned me to the hangman. I had walled the monster up within the tomb'.

Deep into that darkness pearing, I wondered. This really stuck out to me because i could only wonder whether he was talking about dying or not.
"Be that word our sign of parting, bird or fiend!" I shrieked, upstarting--"Get thee back into the tempest and the Night's Plutonian shore!Leave no black plume as a token of that lie thy soul has spoken!Leave my loneliness unbroken!--quit the bust above my door!Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!"

This whole Paragrah I think he was telling the bird to release him of all the pain he was feeling from lenores death. How her death made him miserable. but the bird was telling him to just move on, and try to let it go.

Transcendentalism

Nature: By Ralph Waldo Emerson.

The story of Nature it seem to me. That they were comparing nature and the world to humans preferably man and how he work. It also seemed like they felt work is the only way to keep everyday life going easy.

Self Reliance: By Ralph Waldo Emerson.

The story Self-Reliance is talking about how much work and the thought of trusting no one was taking so seriously. The way boys were raised to be men. Working to them is a way to show their strength and manhood. ‘‘A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best’’. A perfect example of how much work meant to them.

Resistance To Civil Government: By Henry David Thoreau.

Think he was not only talking about poverty, and how people act every day. ‘It is not man’s duty, as a matter of course, to devote himself to the eradication of any, even the most enormous wrong; he may still properly have other concerns to engage him; but it is his duty, at least, to wash his hands of it, and, if he gives it no longer, not to give it practically his support’. Basically the paragraph is stating to me that it isn’t a man’s every will and desire to focus on one thing mainly work. He may have other things to take care of but he will always stay on track to his goals.


The Video Really proved what the Transcendentalists were trying to say. He used his mind and hands to survive in the wilderness. It always at peace and never really had any problems. He didn’t need a government or anything to help him. He made it all on his own.

American Romanticism

Task one:
I read the story.

Task Two:
In the story rip van winkle I thought the story was romantic because of how he slept for 20 years and he thought it was only one night. The reason I think that this is romantic because it does not have a logical reason, American Romanticist believed that you did not have to have a logical reason for everything, that is why I think that Rip Van Winkle is a romantic story. Also he describes nature in a very descriptive way and he goes to the woods to get out of the reality of his life. The author Washington Erving displays beauty in his work through this line:
"When the weather is fair and settled, they are clothed in blue
and purple, and print their bold outlines on the clear evening sky". I can visualize as i read his writing.

Task Three:

The Poem was talking about nature and death, which makes it Romantic. It also focused on imagination by mother nature can talk to someone who is afraid of dying.
It seems to me that the poem is saying don't be afraid to die. Death is nothing to be afraid of.

Task Four:
I think the peom written by Henry Longfellow describes how peolpe in every day society have to live and work. In the fourth Stanza Longfellow uses imagery to describe two women: Fair maidens, white dove, gentle hands, and twisted strand which were referring to the swing.

Task Five:
It expresses nature and it has a tone and sets a mood of calmness. Romanticist really didn't have much to see but buildings and lights to see so they could imagine their own world and that's what I think of the painting.
This painting is romantic because of the nature surrounding it and how it makes you feel. like as if god was looking down upon you.