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.

Woman Writers

I do believe female writers are different from male writers. But then again i believe all writers are different from each other. This is because each individual writer has there own type of writing style. Granted some are better than others, each different writing is unique and special. I believe this is a good thing because there are different types of readers. I do not believe it matters if the writer is male or female. As long as its a good book i will read it.

Edith Wharton Facts

1. She was a Pulitzer Prize winning novelist.

2. She was acquainted with Henry James and Theodore Roosevelt.

3. She was in " the Young Indiana Jones Chronicles"

4. She loved to travel, and was more privileged at times than others in the places that she went, because of her many connections.

5. Aside from many respected novels, she also wrote many short stories. Her most famous are her ghost stories.

Vocab Story

Of all the barrios in San Jose there was one hacienda that stood out from all. It had a palmetto in the front yard with a lasso and a tire hanging off of it. In the house lived a grandee who was a torero in his spare time. He is very antediluvian, in the sense that he is always consistent. For example diurnal, he always goes out to his front porch at 3 o'clock and takes a siesta. He is never late to this. he pretty much keeps to himself, and because of this rumors are around him. Some say he was an ex FBI agent, others say he is a desperado, and others say he is a renegade from another countries government. All in all I believe he's just another run of the mill guy who's just enjoying life after retirement.

Seattle 1999

The WTO is an organization on trading all over the world.

They were protesting that only the rich countries get a say and not the smaller ones in the trading affaires. Even though the president says that everyone gets a fair chance and a say in it.