"Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"

1.) Edwards believes that his congregation has lots of sinners. He gives the speach to scare them into changing their ways.

2.) If you do God's will and everything right then you will be granted the ability to go to heaven. Men who sin and are held over a fiery pit in the had of god. His audience are natural men.

3. Abate means to Diminish.

4.) He uses this repetitive structure to prove a point, that there are more than one dreadful  thing that will happen. he tried to make it seems as bad as possible. 

5.) He shows that this part of the sermon, is more important than most of the text.

6.) The rhetorical effect has an effect on your emotions, because when he goes on and on without using periods it gives a different feel and mood of his speach. It makes it more suspensful and listeners pay more attention

7.) Edwards was inferring that everything he was saying all tied in to each other and all was related to all his ideas.

8.) He developed the simile by explaining what the wrath of god is like. His use of imagery is very powerful, for example he stated that " If God should only withdraw his hand from the floodgate, it would immediately fly open and the fiery floods of the fierceness and wrath of God would rush forth with inconceivable fury".

9.) Edwards says that god is holding us over a fiery pit and if we sin enough he will drop us in it. Edwards is trying to tell his audience that they need to be better followers of god.

10.) Edward uses ethos to pathos He uses more emotion in his sermons to his audience rather than logos. His vision of god is very different from todays and may seem not be as logical to us as it was to them back then. 

11.) Edwards' tone is in a fierce mode . "The use of this awful subject may be for awakening unconverted persons in this congregation." " Your wickedness makes you as it were heavy as lead, and to tend downwards with great weight and pressure towards hell."

12.) These texts are meant to be heard: " The bow of Gods wrath is bent, and the arrow made ready on the string, and justice bends the arrow at your heart, and strains the bow, and it is nothing but the mere pleasure of God, and that of an angry God, without any promise or obligation at all, that keeps the arrow one moment from being made drunk with your blood. " This was meant to be read: " It is everlasting wrath. it would be dreadful to suffer this fierceness and wrath of Almighty God one moment.: but you must suffer it all to eternity."

13.)  His text is persuasive because he is making it sound as bad as possible so the people will want to do right and not go to hell. Persuasive text is the process of using words that are trying to get people to do something or convert. 

14.) The parts of the sermon where Edwards really stressed how important it is to be a devoted christian and what god will do if we sin, I believe is the part where listeners may have fainted or cried out. 

15.)

Critical reading

Critical Reading

1.vivid and they made me think about how stories like these kept native Americans humble and hardworking

2.they helped make a new species. He was a very powerful man/spirit

3. He takes their ability to talk and makes them walk on 4 feet instead of 2 from now on

4.buckskin laid on ground, allow wind to enter, corn disappears leaving man and woman

5. It's purpose is to put breath in man

6. In one story the wind is dangerous and harmful and in the second story the wind is depended on and great contribution

The Yellow Wallpaper

Joshua Ramseur

Mr. Frye

Honors English 3

February 3, 2014

The Yellow Wallpaper

            Throughout the Yellow Wallpaper, Charlotte Perkins Gilman gives us the readers multiple examples of symbolism. The biggest one obviously being the wallpaper has many different ways of showing symbolism as the story progresses. Between the pattern of the wallpaper, the scent, and the tidiness of it, the narrator goes insane. The narrator becomes outspoken and which at the time also meant that she became crazy. This short story was written to let society see the world from a woman’s point of view and was one of the earliest literary works to show and stand up for women’s rights.

            At the beginning of The Yellow Wallpaper, Gilman kicks the story off by writing through the wife. This allows the readers to be in the mind of the narrator. By us readers having this power I believe it also affected our viewpoint on the narrator state of mind. The wife did not start showing signs of insanity until she said that the wallpaper moved. She claims that the wallpapers patterns are moving and she was determined to figure out why. Eventually she thinks she figures out why the patterns move. She thinks that a woman is trapped inside the wallpaper. This symbolizes her life as over the last couple of months. She is moved from her home to a house away from the city and is isolated from all of her social life. The wife is trapped in her room similar to the woman being trapped inside of the yellow wallpaper.

Another symbol Gilman writes is how the narrator begins to tear the wallpaper away from the wall. The narrator feels like a woman is behind the wallpaper and that she is in need to be freed. By the wife tearing down the wallpaper, she felt like this was helping the imaginary woman to become free. This relates back to how the narrators husband taking things from his wife such as a social life and her ability to express herself through writing. The Yellow Wallpaper slowly but surely began to take over the woman’s life to the point that all she did was obsess over the wallpaper that was in her room at her new house.           

Lastly, Gilman also said that the wallpaper had a unique scent to it. A scent so strong that it followed the narrator everywhere she went. The narrator claimed that she could even smell that unique smell in her own hair. The woman hugged and even tasted the wallpaper while she was stuck in her room. By the wallpaper having a scent, Gilman was showing us that this woman really was now obsessed with the wallpaper and spent all of the time thinking and analyzing it. This symbolizes how the woman was unable to leave her room and could not escape from it.        

In conclusion, Gilman did a great job using the situation of an insane woman to express her beliefs and feelings toward women’s rights at the time. Her use of symbols allowed her to get her point across clearly. All of her symbols were important and meant a lot to the story

My name is Joshua. I play basketball and football. I like to play video games whenever I'm not studying or playing basketball. Sausage dip is my favorite food. My birthday was Jan. 27th and I am very excited about English 3