5 points

1. Born when Halley's comet appeared. and died when it reappeared.

2. He grew up in Hannibal, Missouri. Absorbed in the environment, and created the setting for his most famous books.

3. Many jobs and exciting expriences.

4. Had a family but they all eventually died off.

5. Very money spending guy, got into trouble and bankruptcy.

Satire

1. Obama to wait for nextBruce Sprinsteen album for word on economy.
2. Gay teen worried he might be Christian.
3. Struggling U.S. airways introduce 100$ million bomb fee.
4. Taco Bell founder dies.
5. Self defense tips that will only make him angrier.

Norman Mailer

His View on woman writers is not very good as he sees them as not very good writers. He views them as incapable of making a good book.

He believes that women are weak and unable to do much of anything. He believes that only men can make a good book. Makes it seem that woman in literature are good for nothing.

I do not agree with all of his ideas. As they are narrow minded and selfish. however, he is entitled to his own opinion. he is a very respectable man with his own ideas.

The Hours Questions

1.Describe the three female characters in great detail? What do they have in common?

How do they differ? How does their era influence who they are?

Sussex, England 1941. She believes she's going crazy, hears voices. the narrator is married. And the whole time she is writing a letter. She thinks her husband is better off without her. Named virginia Wolfe. She wrote the story.

Los angeles, America 1951. She is Reading the Story. Laura Mcgrath/ Brown. Suicidal, and pregnant. She is married as well. She makes a plan to leave her family when her second child was born. She does and moves to canada and becomes a librarian. In the end she meets clarissa when richard dies. She's outlived all of her children.

Richmond england 1923. She is writing the story. Virginia Wolfe. Married Lennard. She kills herself when she moves back to England.

New York City, 2001. She is the story. Clarissa Delaway. More modern version of it. Richard, her last lover, has aids. He is very sick and has hallucinations. She has found a new lover, a woman named Sally. but she still loves Richard. Richard was the son of the woman reading the book, laura. He kills himself, jumps out of the window, while laura watches. She is eventually enlightened at the end, and is happy.

They all are emotionally distressed. And are confused.

Virginia is more relaxed as where clarrisa is ecstatic and laura is just sad.

There eras didn't really influence much other than there surroundings and how the story plays out.

2. Compare/Contrast these female characters with the female characters from the

literature weʼve read. They are all emotionally stressed. As well as mentally. One thing that i noticed was that richard was less controlling than the other men that we've read about, and the only one that is mentally ill and kills himself. Every woman we've read about feels trapped they don't really love husbands or men. Many were confused as well.

The Yellow Wallpaper

The narrator of the story went crazy. It was ironic because she was there to get better in the first place.

Her husband makes her go into a room for her "health". She believes a room with bared windows was once for children. The wallpaper bothers her so incredibly much. The smell, the color, the lack of pattern, everything. She sees a woman in the wallpaper. She believes that woman comes to life and tries to escape from the wallpaper. She locks herself in the room at the end to get in and help her get out. She's creeping around. She believes she was in the wallpaper the whole time and got out in the end. She tears the room to shreds.

Story Of An Hour

They relate in which the author or narrator portrays women as fragile and or easily influenced.

The make woman want independence, and they eventually get it. With a price or, with some twist at the end. They view men as restrictions and as a higher power that women should learn to stride free from.